Now, I don’t want to be too harsh because I do think this novel is well intentioned, but anyone who compared this book to Fleabag or Sally Rooney can go to hell. They spend a lot of time together and Joy ends up falling for him, only for him to show up a few weeks later with a girlfriend. How to Fall Out of Love Madly fearlessly explores three women’s shifting desires and the systems that do—and do not—constrain them. I will leave you with this quote about Joy’s aunt that really stood out to me: “I thought she was a victim of watching a baby being dropped, but really.

Potent and poignant, How to Fall Out of Love Madly offers characters so lovable, and social commentary so sharp, that I have paper cuts from turning the pages and a special place in my heart for Casale’s unapologetic storytelling.So, get ready to vibe because these books paired with Taylor Swift’s sound and lyricism have our hearts absolutely captivated. The characters and the issues they face are very real, their stories are relatable, and they all grow a lot by the end of the novel. She wouldn’t know much more than that; she wouldn’t know that even though she’d told herself for ages that she didn’t mind being single and that she didn’t want children anyway and that turning thirty very soon meant nothing, somewhere it terrified her that at this age she’d never been in love with anyone and that no one loved her, no one at all, and coming off of this state, not too much later, she would meet Theo. I felt for Joy, a self conscious and chronic people pleaser, in love with a man who was only too happy to use her for an emotional relationship while having a sexual relationship with another.

There’s no flattering way for me to sit with it so I think about ways to not sit, and I think about sucking it in whenever it is that I am sitting. Meanwhile, Theo's girlfriend Celine has been told all her life she is stunning but doesn’t really believe it. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. this book was sold to me as "a must-read novel for fans of Sally Rooney, Torrey Peters, and Emma Cline", so obviously, i slam the "to read" button.Knowing that my experiences in life can happen to other people and that we all react in different ways and we’re just straight up not having a good time.