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Normalūs žmonės by Sally Rooney

129 reviews

claranasman02's review against another edition

challenging 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? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, and Violence

cutepatzie's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

Its not bad book, but to be perfect she misses a bit. I very much like the character development. The topicks that this book talks about.  Marianne is amazing character very good making her job by showing how self esteem is important and also Connell (even when he is an asshole sometimes) its also amazing show how his problems make people behave in sorting way. Amazing book showing how two people with different background but similar problems can become comfortable for each other. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Bullying, Child abuse, Deadnaming, Gaslighting, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Sexism and Self harm

_mariethln's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-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

3.25

I finished “Normal People” a week ago and I needed some time to sort my thoughts before writing a review. 
I actually didn’t enjoy reading the novel at all. It’s not the typical feel-good romance, the characters are “broken” in some way, most relationships are extremely toxic and I took me quite a while to get used to the lack of quotation marks. While reading, I felt like this was one of the worst books I’ve read in the last months. However, I just couldn’t put it down, I had to read it. I must admit that I was expecting a totally different story than the one told in the novel but after having accepted my wrong expectations, I understood that the story and the way it is told by Rooney is in fact brilliant. 

I’m also not a fan of open endings. I always want to know where characters end up (what they’re doing, who is with them etc.). I want to know what Marianne’s and Connell’s lives look like later but I feel like the ending chosen by Rooney is the one that fits the best as real life also doesn’t end when everything is perfect. Life always goes on and so does Marianne and Connell’s story. The ending shows that they’re still the same people as they are in the beginning but have still changed during the novel.

“Normal people” captures real life. It’s emotionally draining, it’s sad but it’s real. As I said, it’s not a typical feel-good romance. However, it’s definitely worth reading. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Bullying

periwinkle000's review against another edition

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Body shaming, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Sexual violence, Classism, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Death, Grief, Sexual content, Suicide, Bullying, Pedophilia, Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Sexual harassment, Blood, and Violence

Minor: Abortion, Death of parent, Alcoholism, and Vomit

chris_reads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-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

4.5

Beautiful writing and concepts, but what the hell was that ending? Talk about abrupt.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Bullying, Classism, and Misogyny

mrt17's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Alcohol, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Sexism

faithe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Classism, Death, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Violence, Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Eating disorder, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

juliafrancsca's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

4.25

difficult, dark, rough

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Classism, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, and Self harm

_nery_'s review against another edition

challenging emotional sad tense medium-paced

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

3.0

This book was not the T.
I know I read Sally Rooney out of order (2,3,1) but I was expecting much more from this book. I'd dar say I don't know how she got known from this book!
The chapters are too further apart (in time) so every new chapter seems like a new story sometimes. If you pick up the book at the beginning of a new chapter the characters are in totally different places mentally and physically sometimes too and it's just exhausting. The main character is stuck in theses circles of repetitive behaviour which make her feel helpless and frustrating and the book kind of boring. I think the premise of this book is so good and the characters are so good and relatable, but the plot moves to much and tries to do too much and it just ruined it for me.
Unfortunately this book was a disappointment.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexism, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

marisa_n's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad fast-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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Suicide, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Sexual violence, Classism, Bullying, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Self harm, Grief, and Eating disorder

Minor: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Death of parent, Gore, Misogyny, and Racism