My first Sally Rooney quickly became a DNF.

*Ducks to avoid rotten apples from Sally Rooney stans*

I want my time back and my battery life back in my AirPods. I didn’t survive a pandemic to read this.

It’s my first SR so I went in with zero expectations and was met with floor level plot and character development.

It became a hate read at 9% into the audiobook.

Kept listening a little bit to see if I could get into it - I couldn’t. Officially DNF at 17%. 

This will be a book for someone, but it’s clearly not up my alley. Maybe it is a book that’s much better as a physical read?

A purely character driven novel that left me zoning out and losing my spot. Let’s add in that I found myself not caring about any of the characters. The emails (the epistolary portion) gave nothing to the plot (is there actually a plot?) and I found myself zoning out even more.

A soap opera-esque novel with too much dependence on underdeveloped characters and too many emails that contributed nothing moving the book forward. 

Will I still pick up Normal People? Ehhhhh someone convince me