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A review by olivyre
Normal People by Sally Rooney
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Spoilers!
It was certainly good as I read it over two days. It was pretty easy to read except for the annoying lack of quotation marks which made me read everything as if it was the character’s internal monologue. I guess it was a good kind of effect to bring the reader out from the world – to make it like you are experiencing life from the character’s point of view but also are not quite there (because the characters themselves don’t belong). But still it was annoying.
I didn’t really like any of the characters except for Joanna and Evelyn and they were the most minor characters ever but that was supposed to be the case. It just made me marginally worried that I'd end up like Marianne or something.
‘I don’t know what’s wrong with me, says Marianne. I don’t know why I can’t be like normal people.’
It was certainly good as I read it over two days. It was pretty easy to read except for the annoying lack of quotation marks which made me read everything as if it was the character’s internal monologue. I guess it was a good kind of effect to bring the reader out from the world – to make it like you are experiencing life from the character’s point of view but also are not quite there (because the characters themselves don’t belong). But still it was annoying.
I didn’t really like any of the characters except for Joanna and Evelyn and they were the most minor characters ever but that was supposed to be the case. It just made me marginally worried that I'd end up like Marianne or something.
‘I don’t know what’s wrong with me, says Marianne. I don’t know why I can’t be like normal people.’