Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

39 reviews

dukeofkel's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer and Miscarriage

Minor: Homophobia, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, Ableism, Forced institutionalization, Infertility, and Injury/Injury detail

chrisljm's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective relaxing 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

4.5

This book contained so much heart so it's not surprising to say that I cried in the end. While not a romance, it does contain the love story between Ove and his wife Sonja. The love he has for her is so sweet and so sad, because the book is also a story on grief and how Ove deals with losing the love of his life. It's about grief and loneliness, but also how friendship and community can be healing. 

The relationships in this novel was truly the best part for me. I loved reading about Ove's newfound relationship with his neighbors, and slowly seeing the ones he had in the past. He is very much a grumpy old man where despite how much he tries to fight them, a friendship and community can't help but form between him and his neighbors. It's hilarious seeing him try to beef with children, but the way they bonded with each other tugged on my heart.

And when they called him granddad I felt my heart squeeze. As did the reveal on Jimmy's back story.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Grief, Medical content, Pregnancy, Death, Child death, Car accident, Ableism, Cancer, Fire/Fire injury, and Dementia

Moderate: Homophobia, Fatphobia, Domestic abuse, Animal cruelty, Cursing, Violence, Drug use, and Bullying

Minor: Alcohol and Injury/Injury detail

cinnamonghostie's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-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: Car accident, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Dementia, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Fire/Fire injury, Miscarriage, and Terminal illness

Minor: Violence, Domestic abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

marigold82's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.5

If it wasn't for the very wordy and frequent body shaming/fat phobia I would have rated this booknhigher. I enjoyed the point of this book, but the multiple body descriptions of one character was just too much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, Suicide attempt, and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Miscarriage

Minor: Car accident, Animal death, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

laurataylor's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Animal cruelty, Child death, Death, Gun violence, Grief, Homophobia, Cancer, Domestic abuse, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, Cannibalism, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, and Medical content

humbleearth's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective slow-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

Moderate: Death, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Terminal illness, Miscarriage, Child death, Grief, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, Cancer, Suicide attempt, Death, Medical trauma, and Forced institutionalization

tmickey's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Fatphobia, Miscarriage, Dementia, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Death, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, and Cancer

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Drug use, Infertility, and Domestic abuse

sarah_thebooknerd's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

5.0

Oh Ove—— I definitely felt all the feelings with this book everything from laughter, anger, frustration, irritation, sadness, and love. 

To me this book is about the power of connections and not shutting yourself down to be able to connect. It’s also about grief, loss, love, friendship and allowing change. 

—-only thing I didn’t like was how much Fredrik made the interactions with Jimmy largely about how fat he is and not kind descriptions either. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Grief, Body shaming, Miscarriage, and Injury/Injury detail

annasbooks00's review against another edition

emotional funny sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Miscarriage, Suicide attempt, Grief, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Dementia, Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, and Car accident

Minor: Homophobia

bookchatwithbeth's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Death and Car accident

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Fatphobia, Dementia, Infertility, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Homophobia, Drug use, and Sexism