A review by zo__ish
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Beautiful World, Where Are You is just as heart wrenching and beautiful as Sally Rooney’s previous novels. I gave this one a 4 star rating only for personal reasons: Rooney’s characters tend to be challenging to fall into a rhythm with and the pace changes a bit throughout the book, but I think that means it mimics reality so well. I always have a hard time rating her books. But I love it. I love the ending. I love and am frustrated by being held at a distance from her characters, having to decipher what they mean by their words and actions as they decipher them, themselves. BWWAY has so many quotes and pages that I cannot stop thinking about, my phone is littered with pictures of pages and I plan to copy them into a notebook. <33

“There’s a lot you don’t know about me, he said. She rolled her shoulders luxuriously against the bedsheets. 
Tell me everything, she said.” (p. 190)
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