A review by miaaa_lenaaa
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

4.5

The dysfunctionality of functional families
The complexity built between each of the family members was very impressive, you could blame and sympathise with each person

‘No trace of herself left except these pencil marked dreams’

‘Its a problem of geography, he said with the confidence of someone who had never yet tried to free himself of family.’

‘Marilyn would forget this moment. Lydias shout, the shattered edges in her tone. It would disappear forever from her memory of lydia. The way memories of a lost loved one always smooth and simplify themselves. Shedding complexities like scales.’
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