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Intermezzo by Sally Rooney

106 reviews

yasiireads's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A dedication to grief.
A love letter to death, grief, life, making mistakes, feelings and emotions, love and the human experience.

It is quite slow-paced and can be difficult to immerse oneself fully into this book as the characters can be difficult to relate to.
However it has beautifully divulged and opened up into this difficulty making one realise that one is not so different from the other.

Sally Rooney has once again beautifully and impeccably tran formed the human experience and the mundanity of life into literature that feeds the soul.

Absolutely gut-wrenching and eye-opening.

Life is too short to not open up and talk to each other. It exposes how truly powerful feelings can be and how much they can change a person and their life.

Thought provoking and reflective.

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brekkerlun's review against another edition

4.5

emotional reflective sad 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

As someone who struggles to read about

grief and illnesses

, I feel this was done very tastefully and with care for the reader (as well as for the characters). I found both main characters quite relatable, whilst at times I also despised them, which seems to be a pattern for me with Rooney's books. Nonetheless I kept thinking about them and what they might be doing when I wasn't reading, which is testament to how real they felt, and how compelling the author's writing is for me. An exploration of how complex different relationships between humans can be, and how to cope with our existence as a whole.

"The demands of other people do not dissolve; they only multiply. More and more complex, more difficult. Which is another way, she thinks, of saying: more life, more and more of life."

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courtalones's review against another edition

4.25

challenging emotional hopeful reflective slow-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

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gracemessi's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sally rooney books make me think about how beautiful human connection is and they also make me want to kill myself ❤️

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bigmorgo0819's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective 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

I read Normal People and Conversations with Friends between the ages of 20-23 and decided I didn’t like Sally Rooney and was done reading her books.
That being said I really loved everything about this, and was probably wrong about Sally Rooney all along, oops!
I suppose I’m in an era where reading about all the different ways we can love and hurt one another is a lot more interesting than it once was. Also, I would describe this as a surprisingly sexy book.

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