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My Friends

Fredrik Backman

4.53 AVERAGE

paulalankford's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

kelliejean68's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

taniemaree's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

lizbetsybus's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Solid. Not my favorite by Backman but not my least favorite either.

typographic_whimsy's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

m13ka's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Clean 5. Incredibly written, purely human, and delightfully unexpected.

amber_matthew's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

oceanonyourskin's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny sad

ramya3003's review against another edition

4.75

slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

srbarra2's review against another edition

3.25

funny hopeful lighthearted slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I struggle with this writing. I think Backman is such a good storyteller and comes up with really clever ideas, but often comes across really trite, corny, and repetitive. I wish I did a tally on how often he used “the nicest thing” “the best thing” “the craziest thing” etc. it was exhausting.

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