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Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

92 reviews

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

reflective 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Pregnancy

internationalreads's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective medium-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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

kathleencoughlin's review against another edition

reflective sad 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

2.0

What an insufferable bunch of people. If they could've just figured out how to have an actual conversation they would have been infinitely less miserable

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, and Alcohol

amelreads's review against another edition

emotional funny relaxing 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, and Toxic relationship

majeczka_'s review against another edition

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

3.25

Unfortunately pretty underwhelming, even a bit disappointing.
The main characters were boring, the very long emails (beauty? Jesus? bronze age???) were unnecessarily pseudo-deep and don't get me started on the many many many sex scenes that did not bring anything to the story!
I'm a big fan of Conversations with friends and liked normal people very much, but this story lacked the rawness and the effortless flow that I loved so much about Rooney's other novels.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Sexual content

Moderate: Cursing, Drug use, Blood, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

kb_sherman's review against another edition

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Sexual content, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Drug use, Abortion, and Pregnancy

tigertheory's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective tense 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

4.5

I really like Sally Rooney's books and this was no exception. Anyone interested in modern relationships will surely enjoy this. The book touches on many topics that are relevant right now – even the pandemic is mentioned, even though it rather felt like an afterthought. However, it seems Rooney is now well aware of the expectations her readers have going in and consciously caters to them. While the previous books felt rather raw and thought-provoking, this sometimes was almost "prêt-à-penser". 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Chronic illness, Drug use, Infertility, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

stevie's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Drug use, Misogyny, and Death of parent

nialiversuch's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility and Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Toxic relationship, Grief, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

bootsmom3's review against another edition

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Sexual content

Minor: Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, and Pregnancy