25.4k reviews for:

Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

4.36 AVERAGE

halliejgrant's review against another edition

4.25

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

cmalbritton's review against another edition

3.0

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jadelange's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bookishmrsnelson's review against another edition

4.5

emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Stunning and emotional journey through generations of a Korean family. The pace is slow at times, but the numerous characters are well-developed and easy to connect to. It also showed me a side of Korean/Japanese relations that I never knew about.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Infertility, Miscarriage, Racism, Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Death of parent, Pregnancy, War

kauzlarichc1's review against another edition

5.0

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An excellent generational novel of a Korean family in Japan, starting prior to world war 2 through the 80s. Such a good read

hannah97j's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

mkzebra's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

genevievepac's review against another edition

3.75

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mbrosh's review against another edition

4.25

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

mads_aytch's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes