Title: Little Fires Everywhere
Author: Celeste Ng
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary
Published: September 12, 2017
Pages: 368
The Carpenter Confessions Rating: ★★★.5☆
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng was a wonderful book that showed the reality of how life is for those under different life circumstances. It was enjoyable to read, as well as, giving a story that is real. Little Fires Everywhere portrayed racism, the effects of different levels of income, poverty, cliches, and the way past decisions can affect you in the future. This story was one I was glad I read and can’t wait to see how the T.V. show compares!
The Richardson family and the Warren family are on two different sides of the social spectrum. The Richardson's are Bill(the father), Elena(the mother), Lexie(the oldest daughter, Senior), Trip(the oldest son, Junior), Moody(the youngest son, Sophomore), and Izzy(the youngest daughter, freshman). The Richardson's live a pretty extravagant life with a big house, multiple cars, and have to never want for anything. They are living the high life in Shaker, Ohio. Meanwhile, Mia Warren and her daughter Pearl(sophomore), are on the poorer end and never seem to stay in one spot for more than a few months. They find themselves moving to Shaker, Ohio, renting a home from the Richardson's, and hopefully staying put this time. Pearl finds herself becoming good friends with the Richardson family and becoming fond of staying in Shaker for a while. Trouble hits when an Asian woman leaves her baby girl outside a fire station and a family from Shaker, the McCullough's, adopts the baby girl. Mia tries to help the mom get her baby back and Mrs. Richardson doesn’t like that they are trying to steal the baby from the McCullough's. Mrs. Richardson digs up Mia’s mysterious past that could destroy her and make her leave the town both she and Pearl grew so fond of. What will come of Mia and her fate with Shaker, Ohio?
Little Fires Everywhere was a book I enjoyed reading and didn’t regret picking up. Every detail was thought out in terms of what a richer family may have compared to a poorer family, what legal things go into adoptions, and really the book itself was planned out so well. The book went from different perspectives and different points in time and it flowed; you didn’t feel like it was all over the place. While I liked the book, I didn’t understand what the hype was all about. It was a good book, but not so amazing I felt like everyone should read it. I don’t know if I would recommend this book to anyone as much as I would say I liked it if it came up by someone else first.
To be more specific, I gave this book three and a half stars because I didn’t feel like it was very fast paced and got slow at certain points. I don’t feel like the characters were portrayed in detail, making it harder to relate to each one when it came to what they were encountering. Also, while the story flowed and it all made sense, I felt there was too much going on all at once. There were multiple events taking place that felt unnecessary to the story as a whole. It felt like multiple books in one. Even though I didn’t love this book, I’m glad I read it because it was enjoyable to read. Now to watch the T.V. show to see how it compares because I could see, in this case, the show being better based on how the book was set up. We’ll see and I may do a comparison post, but not sure quite yet.
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