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sylviafey 's review for:
Little Fires Everywhere
by Celeste Ng
DID NOT FINISH: 10%
I DNFed it at 10%
I came across a Tiktok of someone saying they stopped reading because the authors were/are treating readers like they're stupid, and that's all I could think about while reading this book.
When I first started reading I was getting into it. A mystery with multiple suspects in a family? Yes please!... then chapter two happened. There's a lot of writing in this book that's just extra information that could have been omitted. While I don't mind a lot of detail to describe people and places or what's going on, a lot of the detail felt like filler. Just something to put on the pages to make the book longer. There was no room for me to make up a picture in my mind while reading because it was described completely leaving no room for my own imagination. I'm not ashamed to say that I skipped over a lot of the writing when it became too monotonous. There were parts that made me roll my eyes,like making Mrs. Richardson seem like this giving, charitable saint of a woman who was renting to people "Who deserved it". I know that the author was trying to show how upper class the Richardsons were and how "poor" Mia and Pearl were, but it felt like they were trying to force it down my throat.
Ultimately, I was bored out of my mind and decided that I wasn't going to force myself to read it anymore than I already had.
I came across a Tiktok of someone saying they stopped reading because the authors were/are treating readers like they're stupid, and that's all I could think about while reading this book.
When I first started reading I was getting into it. A mystery with multiple suspects in a family? Yes please!... then chapter two happened. There's a lot of writing in this book that's just extra information that could have been omitted. While I don't mind a lot of detail to describe people and places or what's going on, a lot of the detail felt like filler. Just something to put on the pages to make the book longer. There was no room for me to make up a picture in my mind while reading because it was described completely leaving no room for my own imagination. I'm not ashamed to say that I skipped over a lot of the writing when it became too monotonous. There were parts that made me roll my eyes,
Ultimately, I was bored out of my mind and decided that I wasn't going to force myself to read it anymore than I already had.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Classism