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Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

33 reviews

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

emotional slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Midway through the book I realized why I wasn't having a good time. It's not as though I don't enjoy slice of life stories or the micro analysis of some basic everyday random people living their lives as best they can, but there was nothing that endeared me to the characters at all.

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hopelookingforbooks's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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reddeddy's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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hanbroloo's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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luciataylor's review against another edition

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reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

The way that this book was written: Alice’s perspective followed with her email to Eileen, and then Eileen’s email back followed by her perspective was unique and enjoyable. Buried in a contemporary novel about two complicated relationships were essays about politics and culture which were very interesting while also indirectly sharing a lot about the characters and the way they view the world. Although the intolerable Felix and icky Simon made the novel hard to get through and the relationships impossible to route for, on my second Sally Rooney book, I have realised that depicting these deeply flawed characters and terrible men in 'situationships' without condemning their behaviour or having any redemption to them is the point of her books. Rooney is actually just brilliant at writing complex (and hateable) characters without explicitly spelling out their actions and words as “bad,” although they are intolerable to read and see women fall for (it is realistic - perhaps why it’s so frustrating) it is interesting to read from the third person instead of living it.

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shann32's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

This book fell unfortunately flat for me. The characters were mediocre, some downright unlikeable. There wasn't much plot to the story, which I guess was probably intentional, but I kept waiting for something to happen, and it just never did. It was disappointing that one of the main relationships in the story was toxic and manipulative, but there was no narrative around that dynamic and no real character development around that.
Some of the prose in the emails between the two characters is reflexive and relatable.
I wasn't a fan of some of the writing style of lists and run-on sentences.

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