A review by averygoodstine
Normal People by Sally Rooney

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

This was a weird one for me. I felt myself not really able to relate to the characters, and was sometimes even annoyed by them, but I was rooting for them at the same time. Because I know that this book is probably extremely relatable for a lot of people, I totally understand the draw to it and why so many people love it. There were a lot of beautiful quotes, and small things here and there that did hit home for me. The writing style took me a while to get used to. I don't like that the dialogue isn't separated with quotation marks, and some of the European lingo and style of talking made it a bit difficult to read smoothly. Overall a pretty decent book.