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notesofacrocodile 's review for:
Beautiful World, Where Are You
by Sally Rooney
one of the things that endeared to me the most about this novel was simon and his specific flavour of religiosity. it's rare for me to relate to most religious characters in media, but this was the first time that i have encountered such a character who's religious experience was the closest to mine. i love that he wasn't the stereotypical depiction of the queerphobic and unnecessarily self-righteous religious person. i thought sally rooney's ideas regarding religion in general was pleasant to read, and definitely something that i agreed with on most counts.
beautiful world, where are you is definitely not a book that has any specific plot. for those who have read other works by this author, you'll know what i'm talking about; her writing continues to be about conversations between individuals and the bonds that hold them together, the dynamics that invite affection and despair, as well as the isolation that the characters experience, even when they're surrounded by other people. also, of course, the political beliefs of the characters.
i don't think this novel touched me as much as normal people did, which would have been quite a feat anyway as the latter continues to be my favourite work of hers, and one of my favourite contemporary novels of all time. i thought alice's thread of narration was a bit unnecessary, to be honest. i didn't find her perspective or her dynamic with felix as stimulating to read as that of eileen's perspective and her dynamic with simon and alice. it would've been more fitting, in my opinion, to have treated alice as a side character (like simon or felix), rather than according her the space of one of the main protagonists.
beautiful world, where are you is definitely not a book that has any specific plot. for those who have read other works by this author, you'll know what i'm talking about; her writing continues to be about conversations between individuals and the bonds that hold them together, the dynamics that invite affection and despair, as well as the isolation that the characters experience, even when they're surrounded by other people. also, of course, the political beliefs of the characters.
i don't think this novel touched me as much as normal people did, which would have been quite a feat anyway as the latter continues to be my favourite work of hers, and one of my favourite contemporary novels of all time. i thought alice's thread of narration was a bit unnecessary, to be honest. i didn't find her perspective or her dynamic with felix as stimulating to read as that of eileen's perspective and her dynamic with simon and alice. it would've been more fitting, in my opinion, to have treated alice as a side character (like simon or felix), rather than according her the space of one of the main protagonists.