Intermezzo by Sally RooneyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
3.75
I started this book in August and then I put it down. Peter and Ivan did not immediately catch my interest, so I moved on to other things. But I returned, and I'm glad I did. I don't love the "no dialogue-styled-as-dialogue" aspect, although I appreciated it more when I was invested in a moment that was more meaningful to me. I enjoyed the last quarter of the book the most, wherein the five main characters start to come together. We spend a lot of time in the heads of Peter and Ivan, and I started to grow tired of the both of them, but the cool move here is that Rooney shows us (eventually) how they start to grow tired of themselves. That's what made the book for me. I'm glad I read it.
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