Sometimes I feel pressured to like books just because they’re hard to read/understand, but then I remember that the point of writing is to enable other people to understand and then I’m back to not liking books that overly complicated perhaps for the sake of a contemporary literary voice. Anyway, I felt like I didn’t know the characters— like I knew too much about their flaws and not enough about who they are and what they do. Also, I’m all for all vibes no plot, but I can’t find a through line other than a 40 year old fuckboy. Struggling to see how this is Sally Rooney core other than being Irish and vaguely gay