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The Winners by Fredrik Backman

12 reviews

emalillah's review against another edition

adventurous 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Death of parent, Blood, Grief, Cancer, Gun violence, Violence, Terminal illness, Outing, Drug abuse, Addiction, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Sexual violence, Racism, Mass/school shootings, Homophobia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Murder, Mental illness, Suicide, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Car accident, Animal death, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Misogyny, Drug use, Child death, and Bullying

kruton's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

3.75

Like most of Backman's books The Winners is a sucker punch. The last 30 pages crush my soul. Gives you hope for the future of Womens sports and demonstates the reality of Women's fear. Could use a couple edits, son oarts are too ling but overall, if you want to cry like a little baby read this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Gun violence

Moderate: Domestic abuse

booksmoviesandstories's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny inspiring sad tense slow-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Religious bigotry, Toxic relationship, Violence, Sexual harassment, Suicide attempt, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Gun violence, Domestic abuse, Death, Child death, Outing, Misogyny, Hate crime, Fatphobia, Drug abuse, Body shaming, Emotional abuse, Rape, Vomit, Suicide, Sexual violence, Car accident, and Blood

llayaz's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Vomit, Violence, Toxic friendship, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual violence, Self harm, Religious bigotry, Rape, Racism, Pregnancy, Physical abuse, Murder, Miscarriage, Homophobia, Gun violence, Grief, Drug use, Drug abuse, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, Death, Cursing, Child death, Child abuse, Animal death, Alcoholism, and Alcohol

niteskyi's review

dark emotional reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Drug use, Child abuse, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Violence, Religious bigotry, and Alcoholism

Minor: Rape

hermoine7's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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

2.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Animal death, Child death, Domestic abuse, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Rape, Bullying, Child abuse, Murder, Racial slurs, and Sexual harassment

ollivete's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense fast-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: Domestic abuse, Sexual assault, Homophobia, Religious bigotry, and Murder

cheekypearson's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective 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

5.0

I LOVE this series - I started reading the Beartown series when I lived in a cold, dark place and it saved me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

Moderate: Gun violence, Murder, Animal death, Death, Grief, Violence, Rape, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcoholism, Car accident, Death, Suicide attempt, Stalking, Violence, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, and Suicide

katharina90's review

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

I adore the Beartown series and am sad to see it end.

This story captures so beautifully what it means to be human and all that we're capable of... the best, the worst, and everything in between. It is emotional and captivating, at times heartbreaking, funny, tense and hopeful. 

Backman's characters are wonderfully complex, imperfect like the rest of us, and utterly lovable (or at least most of them...). 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Religious bigotry, Self harm, Sexism, Stalking, Suicide, Animal death, Classism, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Rape, Miscarriage, Alcoholism, Death, Gun violence, Drug use, Grief, Homophobia, Racism, and Bullying

znvisser's review

emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

I have been ready for this story ever since I read the first two books in a few days almost two years ago. So obviously my hopes and expectations have built sky high since then, and yes, of course that is dangerous. Sooo you can guess it: this book didn’t really give me everything I was hoping for. But at the same time: I was back in Beartown! So I’m not too sad about it. 

My biggest problem: this is a 700-page book leading up to one singular event of a few pages. If there is not an actual storyline that ties all these lives together (which the first book did so, so well), there is only so much you can write around this incident. Unfortunately however, that is precisely what Backman tried to do here. In his very characteristic style, there is a lot of foreshadowing (sometimes misleading, sometimes not) so you’re just waiting for it to happen. For hundreds of pages. And of course in the meantime there are characters and they are not sitting around waiting so they are living their lives, but too many subplots and characters had no real impact in the end. So most of it just ended up back at where they were before this book even started. 

But despite all that, the writing did all the work it had to do to bring me right back into Beartown. And I didn’t need the 100+ page refresher at the start to do that for me, or all the repetition of more recent events or introductions after that: because as soon as I read about the Anderssons, Ovich’s, the Pack and all the others I really was right back there with the forest people. And if this book has made me want to reread the first book, then it has succeeded in a way, hasn’t it?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Gun violence, Alcohol, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Racism, and Animal death

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Pregnancy, Domestic abuse, Addiction, Medical content, Toxic friendship, and Vomit