A review by catriona99674
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

For much of this book I could not tell if I loved or hated this book. It has a meandering pacing and much of it is inner dialogue. It is also a muted book, written in quite an understated way and yet carries so much emotion. 
It was also quite an unpredictable book, I genuinely did not know what was going to happen which heightened the realism of the book: you don't get foreshadowing in real life. 
The characters are not loveable in the conventional way none of them are what I would call a 'good person' and many of the decisions they made and the things they said were poor and yet I was still invested in their lives. 
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