Beautiful World, Where Are You

The narrative shifts back and forth in a confusing way, and I couldn't get a clear sense of perspective. The plot felt nonexistent, the tone was gloomy, and the characters were unlikable. Their letter rants often felt irrelevant, and the sex scenes were awkward to read. It’s basically about two women stuck in cycles of depression and self-sabotage. Book #39 in 2025

I almost gave this 2 stars because there were a few observations of the human condition that I thought were poignant as a millennial, which is what I think Sally Rooney does best. However, this was just a drag. Most of the ramblings from the characters sounded like something I would have read on Tumblr back in 2012. Pretentious characters who are really terrible at life and communicating - which Rooney did much more successfully in Normal People and Conversations with Friends. This one just didn’t speak to me, and I couldn’t connect with the characters or the story much at all. If I find myself wanting to roll my eyes more than feel any sort of empathy for the characters then it’s just not the book for me.

oh the woes of being rich white and beautiful. good writing tho

Group Did Not Rate

Looking for a book to pass the time? Here you go.
Looking for a book that actually tells a meaningful story, or has a plot or even makes any sense? This is not it!
This book really could have been so much better..if it had even a small amount of purpose. Oh and take out all the mundane, unnecessary fodder, that would be great.
The author thinks it is important to add the fact that someone is driving and puts their blinker on to make a turn, but then decides not to and turns the blinker off - WHY, why, why do we need to know this??? The reader could care less, unless it actually has some purpose...WHICH IT DOES NOT. Just say he drove to her house. There, done.
A pregnancy is discussed and the reader does not need to know that she peed on a stick from a package from the drugstore in order to figure out she was pregnant. :/
We live in the 21st century, we know how people find out they are pregnant!
This book would probably be less than 200 pages if all the useless and redundant words/phrase/ideas were removed.
Thank goodness it is off my TBR and I never have to look at it again.