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Sally Rooney

3.81 AVERAGE

emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
challenging emotional funny reflective sad 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

Captures what being a person is like perfectly.
emotional hopeful reflective sad
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I resonate with Frances a lot in the way she seems to bottle everything up, suffer in silence and decide that it would be better not to tell anyone. I don’t think that this was supposed to be the main takeaway from the book, but I really did feel sympathetic, and related to her in a way, like I could make sense of my own emotions through this character.

This book made me wonder if you can really love more than one person romantically, and it’s an interesting thought. In contrast to Normal People, I feel like in the end the miscommunication and misunderstandings got resolved pretty well. These 2 books feel very similar to me yet had intriguingly different vibes. 

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emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional reflective medium-paced
dark emotional tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Uuuuurgh the ending! Devastating. Heartwrenching. So excited to discuss this with my friends. 

Unfavourable ending 3.5 rounded up