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Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

8 reviews

lovelybubbles's review

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dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

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

3.0

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laurabunnett's review

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sad medium-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

1.5

I found this book pretty boring an uninteresting. Every character had their own set of "issues", but these were largely unexplored. Why did Alice's mother and brother dislike her? What was the cause of her nervous breakdown?

Also, way too much sex scenes, especially as I was listening to the audio reading of this. Listening to an Irish woman describe mediocre sex between two mediocre characters was unnerving and far too often for my liking. I felt these scenes never really contributed to the plot either.

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avasbookmark's review against another edition

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emotional funny reflective sad tense 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

4.25

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zo__ish's review

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challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

4.0

Beautiful World, Where Are You is just as heart wrenching and beautiful as Sally Rooney’s previous novels. I gave this one a 4 star rating only for personal reasons: Rooney’s characters tend to be challenging to fall into a rhythm with and the pace changes a bit throughout the book, but I think that means it mimics reality so well. I always have a hard time rating her books. But I love it. I love the ending. I love and am frustrated by being held at a distance from her characters, having to decipher what they mean by their words and actions as they decipher them, themselves. BWWAY has so many quotes and pages that I cannot stop thinking about, my phone is littered with pictures of pages and I plan to copy them into a notebook. <33

“There’s a lot you don’t know about me, he said. She rolled her shoulders luxuriously against the bedsheets.
Tell me everything, she said.” (p. 190)

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