Normal People

3.5:

This should be called “Codependence: The Novel.”

So there's Marianne and Connell, right? Imagine the most pretentious, white British college kids you could imagine. That's our leads! Not very enticing to be quite honest, but it's a very fast read because Sally's prose flows so well.

I didn't particularly like the main characters, and the background ones weren't all that remarkable, I remember at least one boyfriend, one girlfriend, an awkward dinner in Italy, and what I'm sure was an asshat who killed himself.

That sounds harsh, but frankly, I read this in one sitting because it felt like listening to gossip about the rich kids at school, and I'm a sucker for mundane stories like that. It was a game of will-they-won't-they that I wasn't too invested in, but it was entertaining so I'd still give it a go. Plus the cover is cute.