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3.35 AVERAGE
3.35 AVERAGE
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I can only really describe this as meh, it's was fine I neither loved nor hated it
This book was like being forced to make boring small talk with a stranger and half way through questions about what you do for work and the weather they say something interesting and you spend the rest of the conversation debating whether to get to know them better but ultimately don't but you do think about them for a while. It gets the .75 bc the book didnt end depressingly and the main character was actually self aware, which has and hasn't been a trend for far too long in lit fic. (and its gay yippee!)
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
FLAT characters NO character growth NO plot NOT sexy LOTS of viewing instagram stories. MILLENNIAL ASS BOOK! i lined the top with my MUBI ruler 🤓very glad i read this for book club cuz it makes me go. uhhhhhhhhhhh what? i usually love an unlikeable narrator but ava was so one dimensional and SOO insecure and hated herself SO much that im like girl im not picking up anything from you. someone in bookclub said “the audio book is like listening to your friend complain about her situationship” which is just not what a book should be
now i am also 23 and i can also see myself falling into a situation like this so i dont blame her. but NO threesome NO polyamory she doesnt even cheat. the prose wasnt very striking it wasnt offensive but just bleh. malaise of a book. not exciting
i did enjoy the parts about her teaching and the parallels between hong kong and ireland as colonized states by the british. dissecting her dialect and how it was “incorrect.”
i was reading the julian chapter last time i saw my ex which i think made me dislike them more than i actually do. says something about this novel.i dont wanna say “poor edith” because shes better off w/o ava. julian and ava deserve each other in their avoidant attachment move-in girlfriend ass situationship
cannot BELIEVE this was marketed as another normal people. ava WISHES she had the emotional depth and vulnerability of marianne. will be rereading normal people next to see if it still holds up.
now i am also 23 and i can also see myself falling into a situation like this so i dont blame her. but NO threesome NO polyamory she doesnt even cheat. the prose wasnt very striking it wasnt offensive but just bleh. malaise of a book. not exciting
i did enjoy the parts about her teaching and the parallels between hong kong and ireland as colonized states by the british. dissecting her dialect and how it was “incorrect.”
i was reading the julian chapter last time i saw my ex which i think made me dislike them more than i actually do. says something about this novel.
cannot BELIEVE this was marketed as another normal people. ava WISHES she had the emotional depth and vulnerability of marianne. will be rereading normal people next to see if it still holds up.
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Comparing this to Normal People does both books an injustice. They are similar in the sense that they have female, Irish, young-adult protagonists. The comparison ends there.
This book felt so cold and unemotional I wasn't actually sure what to do with it. I didn't start to connect to it until about halfway through, after which I could start to find it entertaining. The characters are surface-level for a reason; the book feels like a meditation on being closed-off, on wanting money, on being a millennial in these really weird times. It's funny - but ultimately pretty unrewarding, if I'm being honest. It seems like the main character just wants to be told about herself (who doesn't?) and makes terrible decisions and undergoes very little growth. It's nicely written, though, and deliciously quotable.
Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC!
This book felt so cold and unemotional I wasn't actually sure what to do with it. I didn't start to connect to it until about halfway through, after which I could start to find it entertaining. The characters are surface-level for a reason; the book feels like a meditation on being closed-off, on wanting money, on being a millennial in these really weird times. It's funny - but ultimately pretty unrewarding, if I'm being honest. It seems like the main character just wants to be told about herself (who doesn't?) and makes terrible decisions and undergoes very little growth. It's nicely written, though, and deliciously quotable.
Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC!
Toivoin saavani tästä kivan Sally Rooney -tyylisen lukukokemuksen, mutta jäi valitettavasti vähän latteaksi :/ En pitänyt tästä kirjasta oikeastaan ollenkaan.
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
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes