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Hová ​lettél, szép világ by Sally Rooney

30 reviews

sambashua's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Gaslighting, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Toxic friendship

lex_r's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

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

2.0

I had high expectations for this novel, which should have been checked and adjusted entering this read. Although Rooney's discourse in this novel feels current with its emphasis on climate anxiety and political unrest the semi-epistolary style and language use make it seemed forced and performative. The book is formatted so every other chapter is a transcript of an email between Alice and Eileen, and more often then not I found myself uninterested in the email correspondences. To me they read as lengthy monolithic Wikipedia articles and exuded a sense of impersonality. The emails were lacking personality and I had a difficult time telling the difference between Eileen and Alice in these chapters. Although I do give credit for the narration style it is unique and creative! Overall, I don't think this book was intended for my demographic, I am sure other have found this devour-able but I spent almost every minute hoping it would end or get better. Perhaps I will re-visit closer to my late/mid twenties.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Abandonment, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, and Mental illness

monicavillasb's review against another edition

emotional 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abortion, Death of parent, Drug use, Emotional abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

amandrarry's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse

fitsntricks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Mental illness and Emotional abuse

occasionalreader25's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

2.75

As a big Sally Rooney fan, I was quite disappointed after finishing her most recent novel. Eventhough the writing was, as expected, brilliant, I found myself missing the personal thoughts of the protagonists. You could later read them in their Emails to one another, but still it was not the same as in her previous two novels where you truly had the feeling of looking inside the character‘s head which is one of my favorite things about Rooney‘s writing style. I also found the characters and especially the relationship between Felix and Alice flat. Felix was, I think, such a problematic und unlikeable character, which was probably intended, but I still found it quite hard to watch him treating Alice like he did. He made me truly agressive. One thing I found very interesting was how Rooney wrote the sex scenes in this novel. I feel like she really set a focus on the conversation during it. The telephone sex scene was actually one of my favourites, she did such an amazing job with that.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

storykath's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective tense 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Self harm, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Abortion, Chronic illness, Emotional abuse, Blood, and Drug use

alexan007's review against another edition

challenging 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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

nialiversuch's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Infertility

Moderate: Alcohol, Cursing, Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Religious bigotry, and Toxic relationship

balkeyeston's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.0

I think, wishfully, I want to give this 4.5 stars, but I believe 4 is more realistic here.

This was a more mature iteration of Rooney’s typical character studies, and is more grounded in the close, current world of politics, infrastructure, and class that we cannot at this point distance ourselves from when creating art and literature in this next decade. Rooney knows this, and has embraced the world in this book by asking us to love when our engrained systems of belief—be it political, spiritual, socioeconomic, or national—call for division.

Yet while she embraces the world and its complex relationships, she also leaves room for a little wishful thinking, a little more compassion, and a chance to indulge in happiness at a time when society has made such indulgences seem scarce. They’re not. The characters in Beautiful World can prove otherwise.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Emotional abuse