Reviews

None of This Is Serious by Catherine Prasifka

kat_ellison's review

3.0

This was fairly good for a debut novel. I like Prasifka's flirtation with postmodernism (although maybe it is more her depicting the absurdism of contemporary life through "the crack", chronic online-ness, etc.) Made me think about how much we internalise everything and how weird the internet is. Lots of people are making a relation b/w Prasifka and Sally Rooney - but it's pretty redundant to compare every Irish author who writes about young women with Rooney - let her exist on her own merit.

sophieee_1998's review

2.0

I didn’t like this book at all, it’s so repetitive and the sentence “i refreshed social media” is mentioned so many times that it made me dizzy and it annoyed me to the point where i was literally rolling my eyes

sophie_gray's review

2.0

reallly slow for the first half- 2/3 but the second half was good. a really like real depiction of gen z and being fake woke. i felt like the character was real but also so depressing but that’s kind of the point. overall i enjoyed the second half but i need a srs break from sally rooney type insufferable pathetic female protagonists.

nicolexx's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

oliviarae1's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

lisa2305's review

4.0

The most Sally Rooney book ever that wasn’t written by Sally Rooney.

maevehuth's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

gyllenfjell's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

mayflxwer's review

1.0

God, this book was just so awful, pretentious and painfully boring. The protagonist was so “woke” it made me want to puke. We get it, this is a book about gen z, but we really don’t need the pages and pages of descriptions about drafting posts for twitter. And then pages and pages of contemplating DMs. And then even more twitter. Speaking of twitter, drink every time the platform was mentioned, and you’ll surely end up dead in a ditch or something. I don’t know what else to say, I hated the main character much more than she hated herself, and trust me, this is a pretty difficult task. The whole “crack” thing (it was funny the first time the word was used, but after a while… I’ve never liked the word but I don’t think I’ll ever use it again) was so pointless? I don’t understand why add a sci-fi element if it doesn’t introduce ANYTHING significant into the plot. Don’t read this book. Nothing will save you from Sophie’s selfishness.

strawberryvee's review

4.0

i will be a literature girl !!!

(this was more of a 3 and half star read not 4 but it’s goodreads so)