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A review by bookedbymadeline
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.5
Immediately pulled in! I loved Ng’s two other books and she’s definitely an auto buy author now.
I did have to get used to the lack of quotation marks. I also found that the chapters could be a little long for my personal taste, but sometimes the story held my focus that they went by quickly. The story itself is Heartbreaking and inspiring! I loved the complex characters and getting to know them throughout the novel. I also loved Ng’s prose as always; there were plenty of lines I was struck by, reread, and wanted to highlight (but couldn’t because I read a library copy)!
Although the events of the book are fiction, there were a lot of parallels to what we have seen both in the past and the present. I highly recommend Our Missing Hearts if you enjoy dystopian novels, literary prose, and/or complex characters!
Graphic: Hate crime, Racism, and Xenophobia
Moderate: Child death, Violence, Police brutality, Grief, Death of parent, and Abandonment