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Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

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chainsawheartbooks's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

3.75

“Maybe we're just born to love and worry about the people we know, and to go on loving and worrying even when there are more important things we should be doing”

This is the first book on the recommended reading for a course I’m taking in April, and I can’t lie, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.

I’m quite open about the fact that I often struggle with more contemporary literary books, I’m just a sucker for gritty horror stories and tales of magical realism, and yet I found myself rather enjoying this once I got into it.

It did take me a while to get used to the lack of speech marks (and even now I still wish they’d been used) as well as the tonal shift as the chapters moved from telling the story to the emails shared by Alice and Eileen.

But they were all such real and nuanced characters, I loved the mundane-ness of life that Rooney refers to throughout, and I was just rooting for everything to work out even when the characters were driving me nuts! And I think the fact they all had very real flaws meant that when they did or said something that made me want to slap some sense into them, I could still understand where their decisions came from.

This was the first of Rooney’s books that I’ve read but I’m intrigued to see how I get on with the other two on my list!

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abernathy_33's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

5.0

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hanngigi's review against another edition

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emotional reflective tense medium-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

3.0

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kcweber22's review against another edition

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dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

Shooo I haven’t read a lit book in ages, but this one was superb. I love love loved Eileen, but found Alice a bit intolerable. It made me think a lot, and I really enjoy that

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igotcourt's review against another edition

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emotional reflective tense medium-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

4.0

im just glad sally finally gave us a happy ending after normal people broke me

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annoyedhumanoid's review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

a man with the name brady regaling you with your flaws.. too real for me

i appreciated the email chapters for the insight into Alice and Eileen's friendship, but not for the philosophical commentary—it came off as lazy writing to explicate the novel's themes. at least it was in conversation, allowing for input and disagreement from another character.

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