Okay, so I'm "medicated" right now and hormonal as Hell. This should be fun. Pros: well paced and in a unique town Cons: I. Hate. Everyone. In. This. Book. Every character was a cookie cutter walking stereotype. And the plot was so damn obvious I had it figured out about a quarter of the way t...
It was compared to "The Lovely Bones" on the cover of my version, and in some days it has a similar feel - the characters feel trapped and desperately unhappy and a teenage daughter dies for a reason the reader cannot fully grasp until near the end. I would argue that if you take out the sexual abus...
I finished this book today, and now I miss it. Shaker Heights is an affluent, progressive planned community in the suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio. Elena Richardson is third-generation Shaker Heights, and it's no mistake that the Richardsons are a prominent family in the neighborhood. Elena married h...
I tend to reserve my five-star ratings for books which are so impactful that I know they will be memorable. After some time the details of the story or the characters may escape me, but I will most likely remember how I felt when I read them. In a few years I will look back and remember that this bo...
I enjoyed this book. It’s quick, relatively light compared to a lot of my reading, and shows a lot of compassion towards a wide variety of characters. I don’t think it digs quite deep enough to be literary fiction, though it’s certainly more intelligently written than a lot of the “suburban drama an...
I'm honestly kind of of disappointed in this book. I'd heard so many rave reviews from friends who read, and loved it. Perhaps I set my expectations slightly too high because of that, but this just didn't live up to what I was hoping for. I understood what Ng was going for. I saw the picture that sh...
I knew, on finishing "Little Fires Everywhere" that I had enjoyed the book and that it was a first-rate piece of writing, excellently narrated. Yet I wasn't clear enough about what I thought of the book to write a review. So, I've let a few weeks pass, let the ideas and the images settle and gotten ...
I loved Celeste Ng’s debut, Everything I Never Told You, a novel about a young girl who committed suicide, so when this came out months ago I fully intended to start it as soon as I could. The thing is, Ng writes multiple POV and I’m not all that keen on that style as it can be jarring. What I found...
What an engrossing read that packs an emotional punch. Ng does a great job with the omniscient point of view, making us understand each of the characters even though we might not sympathize with some of them. Both the parents' and the children's sides of the story are equally engaging, although I co...
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