Conversations with Friends

2.5:

Here's a bunch of god-awful people, and the many expectedly... questionable decisions they made. I almost dropped this, like, 17 different times. I just can't stand the theatrics over their trivial privileged people problems, and the fact that real people don't talk like that was just the cherry on top. It was the whitest thing I ever did read, and I've read Normal People.

Surprisingly, I ended up liking Bobbi the most, even though I metaphorically rolled my eyes every time she opened her mouth at first. And Sally's writing is fairly engaging, even when her dull roster of characters can very much convince you otherwise, and this was shaping up to be a solid 3 star read. But then, that ending... so disappointing, and I didn't even have expectations to begin with. There were aspects of the story in general that I appreciated better here than in Normal People, but absolutely this was a flop for me.