Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

50 reviews

ellaford's review against another edition

dark 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

5.0

This is my favourite release from Sally Rooney yet. The way this is written gives so much yet leaves so much for interpretation, and her magic with describing emotional complexities we all feel is just amazing. This book is funny, dark, sexy, reflective and a great commentary on the state of the world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Mental illness

Moderate: Self harm, Biphobia, Classism, Toxic friendship, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Self harm, and Adult/minor relationship

sarahmae531's review

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

I wanted to give Rooney books another chance after not totally loving Conversation with Friends, and I liked this one much more! 
I am definitely a plot driven reader rather than a character reader, so physically reading her books seems very monotonous, but I listened to the audiobook this time around and I think that’s what I need to do if I read more of her novels. 
I enjoyed watching the characters grow and go through their changing relationships with each other. They all seemed very real, and not likable all the time, which made me like them more. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Sexual content, Self harm, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

kylxris's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, and Mental illness

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Self harm

tinkithesquirelll's review

emotional informative medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Mental illness, Sexism, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Suicide, Self harm, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

faithratesbooks's review

challenging emotional hopeful 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

The book is actually about Eileen, I wish there was more about Alice who it is supposedly equally about, Simon is there, Felix is my least favorite character and oh how I love him the most (in the end). This is the first book I’ve ever read that genuinely feels set in the modern world (not that I’ve tried) and the only thing that threw me was the spelling if yogurt with an H. I like this book an awful lot. It’s done its job at being an excellent, thoughtful, enjoyable, relatable book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Minor: Religious bigotry, Adult/minor relationship, and Pregnancy

zannayo's review

emotional 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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Drug use, Grief, and Sexual content

Moderate: Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

rachelfayreads's review

challenging dark 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Self harm

agiali's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

✧ 156/ 108
“If God wanted me to give you up, he wouldn’t have made me who I am.”

I had to finish reading this because there was no way I was going to bed without doing so. The first five chapters of this book were insufferable and after having a terrible time with my first Rooney novel, Normal People I was worried Rooney was not it for me as a whole.

Overall, I really enjoyed this book and I totally get both the hype and the hatred for it; it's iconic. I will say this book has a lot of sex and religion mixed in and that was way too much for me at times. The formatting of the book with MULTIPLE PAGES having no breaks was killing me at times but I slowly got over it.

Straight vibes and extremely odd.

if I could describe this book in three words it would be "what the fuck".

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

m_anabel's review

challenging emotional hopeful 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

3.25

I loved the title and complex characters. It took me about 60 pages to get into the story, and it was difficult for me to maintain motivation for reading. Alice’s being a celebrity novelist felt very meta. The emails between Alice and Eileen were my favorite parts, although the political and philosophical discourse lost me a bit. I found the dialogue challenging at times because it lacked the formatting that Normal People had. Overall, I thought that the book was meh, but there were some beautiful lines. I think if I re-read this in 10 years, I would like it a lot more and find the themes more relatable. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship

theotheleo's review

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Mental illness, and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Panic attacks/disorders, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy