Reviews tagging 'Homophobia'

Vi mot er by Fredrik Backman

225 reviews

miaetramontana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Car accident, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Cursing, Grief, and Homophobia

rhubarbpi3's review against another edition

emotional tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I quite liked this book! Not quite as good as the third, (I think?) but I love the writing style. The author does these beautiful repetition phrases and says like a theory and then a story and brings it back to this big idea that I quite like. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Drug abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Bullying, Sexual assault, Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

audreywright's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense 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

5.0

Fredrik Backman writes like no other. This book was just as good as the first. Emotional, challenging, heart-wrenching. The characters are deep and nuanced.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Homophobia

Minor: Rape

A large topic of the book is one of the characters being gay, how people find out, and the way people respond and treat this character. It is insightful but could be triggering for some. There is also violence and intense rivalry throughout the book, all part of the plot and theme of the story.

lettuce_read's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Homophobia

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Rape

itshrewsbury's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Misogyny, Death, Homophobia, and Transphobia

Minor: Rape

roctothorpe's review against another edition

dark emotional sad slow-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

2.0

I love Benji with my whole soul but I bounced so hard off this book. Reading this book alternated between being bored and being plainly manipulated, and.. for what?

The first half of the story crawled at a glacial pace, rehashing the events and fallout from the previous book. I felt similarly about the pacing at the beginning of Beartown and so I pushed through with the hope that things would pick up. A lot of space is devoted to a political maneuvering subplot, which personally was just wholly uninteresting to me. But more so than its predecessor, this book did not seem to have anything propelling the narrative forwards and felt aimless in its direction.

When things do start happening, they unfold in this excruciatingly melodramatic and manipulative way. There is a gratuitous amount of deceptive foreshadowing and misdirection (Big Dramatic Event is going to happen -> AHA! I tricked you!) to the point that I no longer trusted the narrator and genuinely stopped caring when something Tragic was being telegraphed. The major plot turns felt like they were inserted purely to manufacture sadness or shock and it left such a sour taste in my mouth. I hated the fact that Backman killed

Vidar, and some random old man who didn't even get a name (?!), because we barely even knew these people. This move seemed like a cop-out to get the emotional impact of death without touching any of the characters that matter

. I hated how Backman treated Benji in this book, especially how

he was outed in such a brutal way, and for what?? To create drama between Maya and Ana? It was so out of character for Ana and completely poisoned her character for me. And then the book was so quick to forgive her for what she did, like people just...forgot?

It was cheap and cruel thing to do, and I felt betrayed as a reader. I still, to some extent, felt the emotions I was "supposed" to, but I also resent the book for it. 

This book was incredibly long, and after finishing it I'm really not sure that it justified itself as a story that needed to be told. Still, I am not altogether put off of the idea of reading the last book in the series, if for nothing else than to get a sense of closure, and that is truly a testament to Backman's ability to write characters that I care so deeply about. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

kaelizaco's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Grief, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Death of parent, Addiction, Racial slurs, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Car accident, Death, Adult/minor relationship, and Fire/Fire injury

mald626's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Blood, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Bullying, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Violence, and Suicidal thoughts

jmledezma15's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Bullying, Car accident, Death, Homophobia, and Rape

kmsander4's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book - much like Beartown - stole my heart. These characters, this world, these words, they touched me in a way that few books have.

Backman understands the power that a silly game can have over communities and the people that live in them. They can unite but they can also divide. You against me. Us against them.

The way each story and live is intertwined makes it feel like I could walk into Beartown tomorrow. I could drink with Ramona, watch Hed take on Beartown in the rink, and stand cheering amongst the Pack. These people are my people. This is my community. I have been transported like that in a long time.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Homophobia, and Rape

Moderate: Alcoholism, Violence, and Abandonment

Minor: Child death, Car accident, and Death