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A review by michelareads
Normal People by Sally Rooney
4.0
Normal People is the story of Marianne and Connell: they meet in high school and, just like two flowers sharing the same pot, they grow one next to each other, sometimes supporting each other and other times stealing each other's air. It's a love story that never seems to find its happy ending, two souls that keep looking for each other and at the same time running away looking for independence.
It's painful, beautiful, real.
Sally Rooney was able to portray the brutal and sometimes boring sweetness of a relationship where two normal people, who feel anything but that, find the courage to look each others in the eyes and confess their feelings and, at the same time, find themselves. Repetitive and predictable at times, just like real life can be, Normal People kept me glued to its pages until the very last line. My favorite parts were obviously the conversations between these two complex main characters, I highlighted many quotes that I found extremely beautiful and poignant and I could see myself re-reading them from time to time. Ultimately I didn't find it as mindblowing or heartbreaking as many others did, but I still enjoyed it a lot and I'm happy to have finally read this best seller.
4 stars.
It's painful, beautiful, real.
Sally Rooney was able to portray the brutal and sometimes boring sweetness of a relationship where two normal people, who feel anything but that, find the courage to look each others in the eyes and confess their feelings and, at the same time, find themselves. Repetitive and predictable at times, just like real life can be, Normal People kept me glued to its pages until the very last line. My favorite parts were obviously the conversations between these two complex main characters, I highlighted many quotes that I found extremely beautiful and poignant and I could see myself re-reading them from time to time. Ultimately I didn't find it as mindblowing or heartbreaking as many others did, but I still enjoyed it a lot and I'm happy to have finally read this best seller.
4 stars.