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My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
65 reviews
theonlybaillie's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Graphic: Death and Grief
Moderate: Animal death, Bullying, Cancer, Mental illness, and Pregnancy
Minor: Blood, Violence, Stalking, Physical abuse, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Terminal illness, and Alcohol
tpasta's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Moderate: Grief and Cancer
Minor: Alcoholism, War, and Violence
annaem's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Animal death and Grief
Moderate: Death of parent, Death, and Bullying
Minor: Blood, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Child death, Violence, and Cancer
milesofkiles's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Minor: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Death, and Grief
alexisgarcia's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Cursing, Animal death, Infidelity, War, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Grief, Addiction, Death of parent, Abandonment, Car accident, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, and Medical trauma
deepcurvesahead's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Mental illness, Bullying, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Physical abuse, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, War, Violence, Addiction, Stalking, and Gun violence
Minor: Pregnancy, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Alcohol, and Cancer
radfordmanor's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Death of parent, Addiction, and Grief
Moderate: Cancer, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Animal death, Bullying, Car accident, Child death, and Cursing
booksnest's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
This writing is just lovely, so many relatable lines that offer hope and reflection to the reader. Credit to Henning Koch for doing such a brilliant job of maintaining the beauty of this book through the art of translation.
This book balanced a made up world with a very real and stark reality and showed how the two knit together in a way I felt was reminiscent of the film Big Fish, which was an aspect I really liked. Although I felt I was waiting for the plot to pick it’s direction for about half of the book, which made it quite slow going for me for quite a while. But once the pacing picked up, I couldn’t put this book down and found myself falling in love with all the characters, even the worse I started off strongly disliking.
A really beautiful story, with beautiful messages and a really unique and inspiring young lead.
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Death and Cancer
Minor: Car accident
Trigger warnings that could be considered spoilers:mscalls's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Pregnancy, Sexism, and War
lindseyhall44's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Graphic: Abandonment, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Stalking, Terminal illness, and Vomit
Moderate: Infidelity, Kidnapping, and Toxic relationship