“Intermezzo”

Sally Rooney has masterfully told a story about two brothers. Throughout the book, them two became more and more vivid, and I ended up really impressed by the author's ability to describe deep, complex emotions.

If you read Normal People, you can guess the style of prose, but Intermezzo is just more of everything in there. In the beginning, I didn't like the style where Rooney sneaks in the character's thoughts inline with a normal paragraph. But after a while, I saw how it added to the "stream of consciousness" thing.

What I like with all works by Sally Rooney is how she manages to make all character's speak in realistic ways. Many of them are really emotionally intelligent (others are not), but it's simply a joy to read how they're reasoning about relationships just the way you'd do in real life. She doesn't gloss over those things. Intermezzo has a hyper focus on people. There are no redundant descriptions of anything else than human beings (and maybe a dog).