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Beautiful World, Where Are You, by Sally Rooney

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avgsilva's review against another edition

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3.0

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zo__ish's review against another edition

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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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risemini's review against another edition

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emotional funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

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

3.75

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lemonboyandme's review against another edition

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emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

This book was a lot like normal people but now it’s with two couples instead of one. I definitely liked ‘normal people’ more but this book was also good. However, though the couple (Eileen and Simon) are 29 and 34 now, they first met when they were a lot younger so they knew eachother when they were 13 and 18 which doesn’t sound very nice. I also don’t agree with everything Eileen and Alice said in their emails to eachother but I liked their way of thinking. I also really like the cover.

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ellelockley's review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are young but life is catching up with them. Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world? I think this book is very reflective and inspiring, and whilst it did take me a while to read because i think some of the chapters are a bit too long, and the book was probably about 50 pages too long, i still thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a story about people being people, nothing was glorified, or romanticised. The emails between Alice and Eileen were very interesting to read and genuinely made me think about life. All the characters were loveable in different ways and their flaws were well written. They just seemed like people. I'd recommend this book to everyone.

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fensterwetter's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted reflective slow-paced

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

2.75

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y0sh1's review against another edition

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funny lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

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

3.5

another enjoyable novel about people being people by sally rooney, which is exactly what i was looking for at the moment. a bit harder to follow than her other books, but i feel like she included more of her own experiences in this one, and tried opening the world to more perspectives within one novel.

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lisa00's review

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emotional lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

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

2.5

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abbruzzese's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted reflective tense 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? No

3.0

the worst of sally rooney's books, imo, but they all go the same way: miscommunication, anger, arguments, self-pity, treating each other poorly, shitty parents. rinse and repeat.

normal people was excusable because most of it takes place before anyone's brains have finished developing, but this time it's real, full-grown adults. alice, felix, eileen—i can't stand any of them. simon is the only character i have a shred of patience for.

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pikkumarja's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

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

2.75

Loved the e-mails, did not love all the sexual content.

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