A review by ida03a
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

2.0

I've seen a lot of people loving this, so I really did wanted to like it, but I honestly just didn't. I started out feeling quite neutral about it, the themes of the book seemed interesting; and I usually really enjoy books about female friendship. At times it really reminded me of The book of goose by Yiyun Li, which I liked. Though, towards the middle I felt it really dragged out, it all felt very repetetive and there was way to many different characters that you didn't really get any details about except of how terrible they were? It just felt like an endless cycle of Lila and the narrator being friends or not, the narrator worrying about school and boys and people being hopeless and terrible...? I honestly didn't get the appeal of this book at all. I also didn't feel like there really was any resolution at the end, idk if I was just too sick of the book by that book, bc I was mostly just glad the book was over.