4.5 stars

Sally Rooney has been hailed as one of the greatest Millennial writers and I absolutely agree with that statement! At only 27, the grasp she has on human nature is astonishing, and I can’t wait to see how she grows as a writer.
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Conversations with Friends is the introspective story of what happens when two college friends, Frances and Bobbi, enter into the somewhat glamorous world of journalist Melissa and actor Nick, a married couple. Rooney wastes no words, but says everything she needs to say, and it was refreshing (if a little weird on occasion) to read from the point of view of a 21 year old woman I could identify with on many levels.
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I absolutely love books which are essentially just character studies - observing how a person is, their vulnerabilities, their ambitions (or lack thereof), what makes them tick, and then exploring those traits in relation to other people, seeing how they react together and affect one another. I also usually don’t like it when authors make use of modern phenomena like facebook in their books, but Rooney wields them with confidence and to great effect.
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Touching on subjects such as infidelity, parental relationships, sexual identity, and an illness not usually talked about, endometriosis, Rooney has penned what I think is a masterpiece of the millennial, if you’ll excuse my alliteration.
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I took off half a star because I thought we’d get to see more of another side of the story (Bobbi and Melissa’s relationship), and we didn’t, but Nick and Frances’s was so fascinating that I’ll let it slide.