Book 5/30.
My rating: 1 of 5 stars
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
Wow! This was BOOORRRIIINNNGGG!!! Yikes! How Beautiful World, Where Are You won the Goodreads Choice Award for Readers’ Favorite Fiction in 2021 is beyond me because this was a 1 star read AF!!! To make matters worse, I read it in the same month I read The Good Girl (February), which means that I read two 1 star books in the shortest month of the year 😩 And just like that, I am no longer sure I will give Conversations with Friends a go because my other Sally Rooney read, Normal People, was a disappointing 2 star read 🥴
** A guide to ratings **
1 star – did not like it
2 stars – it was okay
3 stars – liked it
4 stars – really liked it
5 stars – it was amazing
Lwile the Leo 