A review by aine_
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

5.0

so good i want to scream!!!!! both compulsively readable and something i want to ruminate with and pick apart. the ensemble cast jumped out of the page at me, i find all of their sprawling, complicated relationships and dynamics so fascinating. rooney is so intelligent and funny i desperately want to pick her brains but i wouldn’t know where to start. she uses matter of fact narration to deftly put complicated feelings and ideas onto the page in a way that makes it feel like she’s reading me. there’s so much more i could say but nothing that hasn’t been said before (esp by an irish uni student) but to put it shortly i enjoyed this muuuuch more on reread (even though i really liked it prior). beautiful world reread is calling me…