I should start out by saying, yes, I am very late to the Little Fires Everywhere party. Little Fires Everywhere is a fiction novel by Celeste Ng that was published in 2017 and quickly caught the attention of many. It was the best fiction novel on Goodreads in 2017 and has since been made into a Hulu series (that I have not seen!). Although it took a while to get into the intrigue, it’s worth the slow build.
My audiobooks can usually be categorized into one of two categories: Casual listening and Gross obsession. The first third of the book, it’s all a bit of slow build. There are some siblings and parents and occupations. Eventually you realize it’s the 90’s and that’s a bit fun, but it’s hard to map out how everyone is involved. Though you can’t much develop characters when there is something like two dozen people I’m supposed to know.
Alas, around the 30% mark, we breakthrough the build and we get into some spicy mystery, peak family drama, and of course as the title states, little fires. We move from casual listening to gross obsession where I am sneaking my headphones to listen as we learn more about Mia and Pearl, about Maribel and Bebe, and evermore about the Richardson children. Overall, it’s worth the hype. The physical book might have helped to get through some of the confusing character development or maybe keeping a paper and pen nearby to keep track of everyone, but you should still finally read this bad boy.
