Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Jan 2021: Little Fires Everywhere, by Celeste Ng

This one was okay, however, it could have been about half the length and still it needed better editing. WHY do big authors get away with publishing "filler"? It's boring. I skimmed a fair amount of this book in the last half. 

There were things that were completely unbelievable, which irritates the reader. Even in fiction, you must at least be able to "get into" the character or the situation. 

There's a lot of hype about this book. But from these 2 readers, the books gets thumbs-down.

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