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Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

362 reviews

hanbroloo's review

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emotional funny hopeful 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

4.75

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sixtinelys's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny 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

5.0

I devoured this book. I just love Rooney’s writing so much, her very direct descriptions, her dialogs. Especially the dialogs. My heart ached vividly while reading, here writing brings me to tears often, or makes my laugh audibly. It’s sometimes difficult to read, like her other novels, because it disturbs me, but in a good way. I was a little taken aback by the email parts at the beginning, but I ended up liking them actually. It made me want to reread her other books.

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racbuckallew's review

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funny reflective sad 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

3.25

mad that after everything we got a pandemic not a foursome

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withlivjones's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

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

4.25

I absolutely adored the exploration of friendship in this novel, and I really liked the narration style - it feels quite distant and almost clinical, focusing less on the characters’ thoughts and feelings and more on how they express those feelings through their actions. I also loved the inclusion of the emails between Alice and Eileen. Again, Sally Rooney does a fantastic job of creating flawed, three-dimensional characters with deep and intricate relationships. It did take a while for me to get into the book, though, as it felt very slow-paced and the long paragraphs were quite difficult to follow at times. I know quite a few people take issue with the ending, and though the final two chapters weren’t strictly necessary, they were very sweet, and it’s not often that Sally Rooney gives us a happy ending to her stories.

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stephe's review

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emotional funny hopeful reflective relaxing 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 WISH I knew millennials who wrote emails like this.

I didn’t expect to enjoy this as much as I did, but I’m so glad my expectations were upended. Rooney writes with such generous, close observance, deftly threading the needle between ironic distance and saccharine melodrama. It’s not hard to care for the weirdos in this novel, even as they sometimes seem bent on their own crumbling. Also, as a person of faith, kind of fun to see some cool Christian representation—something almost as rare in the real world as it is in literary fiction.

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emilinaballerina's review against another edition

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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

4.25

Hooray! For once a Sally Rooney novel that didn’t have me in a puddle by the end! In all seriousness, this book was a beautiful coming of age story centered around four people grappling with how to relate to one another and the world they share. I thoroughly enjoyed watching these characters learn and grow from one another and found their journey to be very uplifting and encouraging to read.

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mariabacterium's review

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emotional hopeful reflective slow-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

3.75

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maddiechristine15's review

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emotional funny tense 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

4.75

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addisonpatrice's review

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emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-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

3.0

I've only read one other Rooney novel (Normal People), but it seems so far that she likes to reuse characters. The women are insecure and distant and deep, the men are good "deep down" and hopelessly in love with the woman. The relationships are harder than they need to be because no one fucking communicates. Overall this book was okay. Not quite at the same level as Normal People, but maybe that's just because I read that one first. I did love the exploration of Alice's health issues and the ways she thought about them. It was refreshing.

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rbrown's review

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dark emotional hopeful reflective sad 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

4.75

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