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Beartown by Fredrik Backman

1293 reviews

dsnowflack's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

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

4.25

Take Friday Night Lights and plop it down on the edge of the wilderness in Sweden. Hockey  moms. A story of a small town response when "boys will be boys." Beautiful, reflective, meditation on a family who has handled tragedy. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

Minor: Child death

emspeid's review

dark emotional hopeful sad 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Rape

katliana's review

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Sexism

cerysvy's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Violence

trophysoph's review

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The book has an ebb and flow. Sometimes it spends too long on things and sometimes the plot shoots by you. At some point you come to understand that whatever you expect to happen will likely not be quite what happens

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism and Bullying

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

kirstym25's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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: Rape and Violence

Moderate: Bullying

risemini's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Misogyny, Alcohol, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Grief, Domestic abuse, and Rape

astoriareader's review

challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

SYNOPSIS

• Beartown is a small town, where everyone worships the hockey team.
• Basically, the town’s future is riding on the success of the junior boys’ hockey team.
• Each chapter contains lots of different characters & shifts between their perspectives.
• Check trigger warnings, as main conflict in book involves sexual assault/rape.

MY THOUGHTS

• The writing style was strange to me. I didn’t like the third person narrator, and I wasn’t a fan of the shifting perspective every few minutes.
• Sooo many characters & perspectives that I never felt truly connected to any of them.
• The ending was not satisfying.
• Story drags on far too long.

TL;DR: ⭐️⭐️this one wasn’t for me, unfortunately.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Rape

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, and Gun violence

minhohii's review

dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

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

5.0

my favorite book of the year so far! it's so special to me :( Fredrick Blackman's writing is so good I absolutely loved it!! I'd recommend to check tws for this book
btw I have read the second book & it wasn't as good as this one idk it didn't feel the same :( for me beartown really shines as a standalone book!! I've only continued the second book bc I was so attached to the characters (benji)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

waywardgurl's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Bullying, and Homophobia