“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy held me captive, staying up all night immersed in its pages, awakening the next morning with a lingering sense of melancholy. Stephen King’s works, especially “The Shining,” share that unique ability to make you eagerly anticipate the next page, constantly wondering what twist awaits.
The title intrigues me, would you say it’s not your average run of the mill romance story?
I don’t know, really, I don’t usually read this genre. I just knew of the stereotypes surrounding this genre and the book was nothing like that.
If you don’t know about the book I recommend you check the book blurb, it will most likely do a better job than me.
I enjoyed the book overall and would recommend it to other people like me who don’t usually read romance novels. I don’t know what people who use to read this genre would think about the book, perhaps it might not be their cup of tea or perhaps it might be.
Actual romances are not like romance stereotypes when they are well-written.
But Sally Rooney is not a romance writer and people who read her books expecting them to be romances will be disappointed, it’s a much bleaker and cynical world view.
definitely not a romance but more about a shifting envolving relationship over years, and the beautiful/ugly realities of what that entails especially between two people who have a hard time connecting with others