A review by rafdee13
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

The promise of this book was better then the result. The ending was good- but I'm not sure it was deserved. You spend hours upon hours with the Richardsons, the focus is on them, how THEY are changed by Mia and Pearl and the baby left on the step of the fire station- the problem is, I don't care about them. What do I care about how some rich suburban white people who casually talk about owning a house or going to Yale, learn that racism is bad or that poor people do things? What do I care if they need help getting an abortion or don't understand postpartum psychosis?

Mia and Pearl were more interesting but only because they weren't the fucking Richardson's. Mia herself didn't seem like much outside of a dispenser of motherly wisdom. Despite an entire section on each character meticulously telling their backstory- I feel like there wasn't much to her. 

There's this line at the end that is especially irritating about how Izzie was only understood by two people in the world- Pearl and Mia. But her and Pearl don't interact! That's the point! The literally are with each other's moms instead of their own, when did they get time to actually talk to each other? Unless it's an inate connection through Mia's mothering?? If it was Lexi then I'd understand, but it's not.