Ella

I’ve been waiting for a Rooney book for two years now. In short, I would literally die for Ivan. Can we talk about Peter’s stream of consciousness (such an interesting writing form but I kind of liked it / felt like I was genuinely in his head)?! I was intrigued to see how she would write a brothers dual POV story, but holy Sally could never stop surprising me.

One thing that Sally NEVER fails at is understanding people and writing the most REAL feelings. This story is about two brothers who are grieving their dad who’s just passed after a long, grueling battle of cancer. She captures grief in two different perspectives with Ivan and Peter — and again like I can’t express how does the woman just understand every emotion that’s humanly possible and spit it out on paper in the most relatable and engrossing way. AND THE RELATIONSHIPS DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED. My heart to all of the women in this novel - Sylvia, Naomi, and Margaret. And the IMAGERY. She accomplishes so much in just a stream of four word sentences.

Of course I’m biased to Rooney, but I don’t even think I need to explain myself on that regard. She’s a literary genius.

5⭐️

I’ve been waiting for a Rooney book for two years now. In short, I would literally die for Ivan. Can we talk about Peter’s stream of consciousness (such an interesting writing form but I kind of liked it / felt like I was genuinely in his head)?! I was intrigued to see how she would write a brothers dual POV story, but holy Sally could never stop surprising me.

One thing that Sally NEVER fails at is understanding people and writing the most REAL feelings. This story is about two brothers who are grieving their dad who’s just passed after a long, grueling battle of cancer. She captures grief in two different perspectives with Ivan and Peter — and again like I can’t express how does the woman just understand every emotion that’s humanly possible and spit it out on paper in the most relatable and engrossing way. AND THE RELATIONSHIPS DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED. My heart to all of the women in this novel - Sylvia, Naomi, and Margaret. And the IMAGERY. She accomplishes so much in just a stream of four word sentences.

Of course I’m biased to Rooney, but I don’t even think I need to explain myself on that regard. She’s a literary genius.

4.5⭐️

Beautiful prose, so profoundly poetic. I felt myself in both of these characters. A must read.

Beautiful prose, so profoundly poetic. I felt myself in both of these characters. A must read.

Beautiful prose, so profoundly poetic. I felt myself in both of these characters. A must read.

PLEASE LOOK AT TRIGGER WARNINGS BEFORE READING THIS BOOK.

Devastating read in a very elegant way. A story that has reserved itself a rating category of its own. Jude is someone who will remain on your mind for the rest of your life.

This isn’t a book I would recommend to everyone given its depth, but if one is able to read it - they will be nothing but emotionally changed.

♾️⭐️

I had no idea what to expect from this book. My friend and I from our math REU decided to read this as apart of our book club and OMG!!?

Mia is a post doc born in New York & went to Princeton/UCLA who ended up in the small town of Crowder, Texas. She wasn’t thrilled about the move until she meets farmer Josh (her landlord’s nephew). You can see where I’m going here — yes this story becomes a romance between the two.

Honestly their story was fairly cute. Was giggling probably way too often. *knot* to mention Mia is a knot theorist and just the amount of silly math things like the AMS, Annals, LITERALLY FLIRTING INVOLVING TALKING ABOUT DIAGONAL MATRICES has me sending.

It was a little TOO silly in some places and the romance kind of just happened as compared to a genuine build up.

Overall, enjoyed all the math jokes.

3⭐️