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A review by kntaylor1216
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
3.0
Oh the pains of friendship. Of being in your late twenties/early thirties. Of not knowing yourself. Of the stress and anxiety of the world ending. Of being overwhelmed at the beauty and pain of the things and people around you.
This was my first Sally Rooney. I don’t know that I’m terribly interested in more of her writing as she writes in a way that is very self-serving and very self-important. She comes across as quite pretentious.
I will say that the only people I truly cared about in this book were Eileen and Simon. Alice was quite miserable the whole was through, and even up to final chapters, did not show much, if any, growth. And even now, as I write this review, only one character shows any amount of growth.
While it’s not my favorite, Rooney does a great job of capturing the suffocating pain and paralyzing beauty of being alive in this world.
This was my first Sally Rooney. I don’t know that I’m terribly interested in more of her writing as she writes in a way that is very self-serving and very self-important. She comes across as quite pretentious.
I will say that the only people I truly cared about in this book were Eileen and Simon. Alice was quite miserable the whole was through, and even up to final chapters, did not show much, if any, growth. And even now, as I write this review, only one character shows any amount of growth.
While it’s not my favorite, Rooney does a great job of capturing the suffocating pain and paralyzing beauty of being alive in this world.