Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

The Winners by Fredrik Backman

60 reviews

bealittlebrave's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

This one hurts too much to touch with words.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Grief, Bullying, Child death, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Car accident, Rape, Addiction, Death, Murder, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

karenperry93's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Bullying

sbookreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Bullying, Murder, Violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Gun violence

Moderate: Addiction, Pregnancy, Classism, Cursing, Vomit, Blood, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Suicide, Child death, Chronic illness, Toxic friendship, Drug use, Homophobia, Mental illness, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Rape

sandysmith's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

4.5

What a ride of a book. It was a tad long at nearly 700 pages, but this I overlooked to reunite with my favourite characters and some new ones. The author writes them so beautifully, and in such a way that the ending is heartbreaking. "This hurts too much to touch with words", you do need to have read the previous 2 books in the trilogy, but the investment is so worth it. Friendships, politics, town rivalry, family relationships, religion, kindness, happiness, love, and so much more than ice hockey teams. It is an emotional, big-hearted, clever, and simply delightful. I absolutely loved it. Go Beartown.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Homophobia, Self harm, Sexual assault, Bullying, Child death, Drug use, Grief, Murder, Animal death, Blood, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Hate crime, Violence, Gun violence, and Rape

samiamiam's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

All of these books are phenominal but this one was my favorite. It's a longer read but it's well worth it. I cried like a baby all the way through the end. If I could physically rate it higher I would

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Grief, Rape, and Drug use

fireflyhollow's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Murder, Suicide, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Sexual assault, Miscarriage, Sexual violence, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, and Rape

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Animal death

raisinreads's review against another edition

emotional sad

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

BENJI?? I took that personally

Backman has such a way of writing characters that just feels so incredibly genuine, like he has such a strong understanding of humanity

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Murder, Drug abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Drug use, Sexual violence, Grief, Rape, Animal death, Alcohol, Death, and Gun violence

y2kaitlyn's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Sexual violence, Gun violence, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Miscarriage, Bullying, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide attempt, and Addiction

beccahblue's review

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Suicide, Bullying, Rape, Sexual violence, Classism, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Alcoholism, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Alcohol, Child abuse, and Miscarriage

annakh16's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, and Child death

Moderate: Abandonment, Animal death, Violence, and Grief

Minor: Homophobia, Bullying, Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicide, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Medical content, and Misogyny