A review by crawforl
Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney

challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • 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

I feel like I didn’t process this book well enough to write a proper review. I did find that I related to Frances in that I also struggle with identity/personality and wanting  to be liked/seem interesting. 
However, she seems to create like 99% of the conflict in the book by being withholding for no apparent reason, so. I don’t know if that’s supposed to be the point? Like she doesn’t reveal anything about herself as a means of seeming more interesting, but ultimately hurts the people who are already interested in her by doing so? Also for a book called conversations with friends she seems spend a lot of time avoiding conversations… with her friends.  
I will say I had to google a chapter by chapter synopsis of everything that happened because I found it all blended together by the end. 
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