A review by alleerose
The Story of a New Name by Elena Ferrante

3.0

I felt like the second book in this series dragged a bit, compared to the first (and the third, which I'm currently reading). By and large the two main characters, Elena and Lila, are just generally pissy and unpleasant and everyone is always fighting and jealous. It almost made me give up on the series because it made me stop caring about the characters for awhile. It could also be that my expectations were misplaced. I thought I was reading a series about female friendship but Elena and Lila don't often seem to be friends at all and instead try to tear each other down or root for bad things to happen to the other. But anyway, book 3 gets better so I'm glad I plowed through this one.