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Intermezzo

Sally Rooney

4.03 AVERAGE

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Bravo Sally!
Being completely candid it did take me a while to get into this at the beginning (switching to audiobook helped a lot) but once you invested it’s hard to put down.
Sally has a way of writing characters that makes you care for them and see them as actual humans, despite what flaws they may have.
Last quarter of this book is actually flawless and some of my favorite reading from anything I’ve consumed this year.
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

didn’t enjoy this book unfortunately. really liked Ivan as a character and think it explored grief well but that’s about it. Not really much of a plot to it and found it very boring and predictable. Shame really I do like Sally Rooney and I’d seen good things about this book.
emotional reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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3.5
slow-paced
emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated