Conversations with Friends

Being my third Rooney book, I'm no stranger to this style of prose. But it's clear why Rooney's debut was so successful - the book was comparably more fascinating. Although with equally damaged characters and macabre internal dialogues, this book's relationships were more complex and hence did a better job of stringing readers along the classic will-they-won't-they. Perhaps it's simply because it involved a four-way relationship rather than the usual two or three that made it such a dizzying success.