LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE (TV TIE-IN ED) Paperback – 2 April 2020

🔥Book Review 🔥🔥 Little fires everywhere by Celeste Ng.🔥 Genre: Fiction.🔥 Storyline:Q. Did the story have a good beginning?A. A house was set to fire. Do you want any better beginning?Q. Was the story believable?A. Being contemporary in nature and a story about families, it was totally believable.Q. What was the most exciting moment in the book?A. When the house was set to fire. The beginning.Q. What do you think was the most important point, or climax, of the novel?A. Families. In our busy lives we just forget our families. They need us, so do we.Q. Were you happy with the ending?A. Hell yeah. Mrs. Richardson totally deserve whatever she got.🔥 Setting:Q. When and where is your novel set ?A. 1990s Shaker Heights.Q. Were they descriptions good?A. The description was ok. You know at times we read something where the characters are normal people and not heores, the story is ordinary and not some fantastic theory, the writing is simple and not lyrical, yet it leaves a mark. This is something like that.🔥 Characters:Q. Pick the main character in the novel you studied.A. Mrs. Richardson, Mia, Izzy, Pearl.Q. Did you like them? Why and why not?A. Each of them were so different from themselves and each of them taught me something.Q. If you could ask them any questions, what would you ask?A. I would ask Mia what would she do if she finds a guy in his life? Because she totally deserves one.🔥 Theme:Q. If you had to say what the novel was about in one sentence how would you describe it.A. A book which reminds us that we at times forget about the tiny yet important things around us but then regret when we lose them.Q. At what points in the novel was the main issue obvious?A. When Mrs. Richardson asked Mia to come work at her house.🔥 Language:Q. Did you find this book easy to read?A. Yes. The language was simple to comprehend.🔥 Conclusion:Q. Would you recommend this book and why?A. This book will be one of my favourite reads ever and would recommend it to everyone because we all have a family. And obviously it says how we should mind our own business.

Little Fires Everywhere is Celeste Ng’s second book, reading which I want to read her first one. The book is slow and Ng spends a lot of time in character building, which is done beautifully. An affluent family, the Richardsons, in a gated colony in Cleveland, rents out their second home to an artist, Mia Warren and her young daughter, Pearl. The Richardsons have four children, each with their unique and well developed character. The book is nuanced and layered. Mrs. Richardson charges Mia low rent because she wants to feel generous, by giving her a fair chance in life. She even offers Mia a job as a housekeeper in her house. But as time passes Mrs. Richardson despises Mia for all that she is – carefree, poor, austere, unsystematic, living a vagabond unplanned life, exact opposite of herself. This makes Mrs. Richardson dig into Mia’s past life, which reveals us a lot. Half way through, the book picks up speed, the plot thicken, pulling together stray ends. A court case over a baby and its custodianship divides everyone. Complexity of the case leaves us uneasy and unable to decide on whose side are we on.The title brings up all the fires – big and small – the actually fire, or little fires which Izzy, the rebel child, youngest of the Richardson’s puts in every room of the house as reaction to everything that she sees as unfair, and which turns into a large uncontrollable fire charring the whole house down. And then there are other fires – individual passions, strong sense of justice, fierce battle of two mothers for a child that they call their own, traits and incidences which ignite people.I think Little Fires Everywhere has been one of the best books that I have read in a while and among the many reasons why I liked it, the most important is that this books reminds us that the world and the people in it are not black or white, but are a rainbow of greys. This array of colours leaves you with the question, can you really call anyone ‘good’? And can you really, wholly take their side? Subtle is the new powerful.