Nejla’s Reviews > My Brilliant Friend Deluxe Edition: The Four Volumes: My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, The Story of the Lost Child > Status Update

How happy I am that Lenu is finally leaving Naples for university. I was rooting for her all this time.
All the things she went through were worth it. She will be able to make something for herself, by herself. I’m very excited to read about the rest of the book.

Nino who is very mad at his father for adulterous behavior, does the same with Lina. Lina who does things with Nino while thinking Lenu has feelings for him. Lenu should’ve been the one telling Lina about the feelings tho. What a weird friendship they have

This friendship of Lina and Lenu is a toxic friendship of convenience. Lenu wanted to distance herself from Lina but is just friend because Lina helps her with school with books and a quieter place to study. They seem like good friends sometimes, but how can you treat a friend horrible and not tell her secrets? How can you not tell your best friend that you’re in love with a boy for quite some time

Nino really loves to hear his own voice…

Funny how mad he gets at his father but starts acting just like him. Kissing others while you have a girlfriend. First Lenu now Lina

Lila is jealous of Lenu after the professors party because she was unseen and people payed attention to Lenu. The disgusting this she said. Apparently joking. I would’ve questioned my friendship with her if I was Lenu.

How crazy it was that it was very normal for women to get beat up severely by their husbands back in the day.
How crazy is it that it was normalized as making your woman obey instead of a cause of outrage.
Still happens to some women. Very heartbreaking to know that someone you love can do this.

It amazes me how violent Rino is. Rino defending Lila by threatening to burn everything down, the house and the shoemakers shop with the entire family, if the parents forced Lila to marry Marcello. He is so unique

I’m truly disgusted by Sarratore!
But Elena is such a wise girl by leaving before anyone woke up. ❤️

Elena defending Donato Sarrate to Nino just because Donato was the father she wanted. Someone who was doing things with her, helping her. She didn’t see cheating as something wrong because that was a way of loving someone.
Nino right in his way to be mad at him because his father is hurting his mother because he keeps cheating on her.

Rino is such an angry man. Wanting to become rich so badly. So greedy for showing off the Solaras. How he behaved around New Year’s Eve and now. How he behaves is very ugly. He calls a young lady vulgar things, when his friend comes over to address him with insulting phrases, Rino punches the guy. It’s ok for him to insult people but not okay for others to insult him. The violence because how small he feels