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Sally Rooney, Sally Rooney: Normal People (Paperback, 2018, Faber & Faber)

Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities …

Uninteresting and poorly written

I wouldn't have read this book if it wasn't our book club pick, because I'm not into romance, so I did go into this book with prejudice, knowing I probably wouldn't like it.

With that being said, I didn't expect that the prose would be that bad. I read "A lot of people really hated her," among many others, and couldn't believe how popular this book was supposed to be. If the writing was at least better, I wouldn't have minded the mundane love story as much.