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My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
4.75
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This book is so slow but so much happens it’s incredible!! The toxic female friendship represented on here is equal parts cathartic and scary. 
I adore that Ferrante gives life to about 1000 neighbourhood characters. It grounds this book in a deep sense of reality. 
I’m genuinely finding it hard to adequately articulate how wonderful, sad and real this book