ellie rated Normal People: 4 stars
Normal People by Sally Rooney, Sally Rooney
Rubbish. A quarter of it is love scenes. Very steamy like fifty shades of grey
DNF. I was really looking forward to reading this considering the countless 5-star ratings, but it is so cliché and cringey that I couldn't even get past 50 pages. To be fair, I have never particularly liked the Romance genre, but when a review on the cover says "everyone with a heartbeat should read this book" I am likely going to be tempted. I can understand why people enjoy this stuff, but the dialogue is brutally unrealistic and hard to get through. Like many fan fictions I read when I was 12, the love interest is a brooding, non-committal weirdo that right off the bat assumes the protagonist to be a prude. Also, the main character's name is Lily Blossom Bloom? This is not for me, but props to you if you can overlook nonsense like that.
