6.7k reviews for:

My Friends

Fredrik Backman

4.55 AVERAGE

marsvanstav's review

4.0

emotional inspiring 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: No

onceuponanna's review

4.0

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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: No

zacyoung's review

5.0

dark emotional funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

cheyhamel's review

5.0

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Phenomenal book. 
Beautiful unfolding of the story, starts heartbreaking, ends softly, kindly. 
Enjoyed it more and more as it went on.

bluehotwhite's review

4.0

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

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I've enjoyed everything of his that I've read because the characters feel well developed and I like all the interweaving of stories and connection between characters, but this one was hard for me at times. The Louisa character was tough in part because of the writing (so very much eye rolling and sarcasm) and the narration maybe made that worse (a lot of sharp and loud dialogue that made it seem like the character was always yelling). Louisa came off as pretty irritating which made it hard to care about her and feel her depth. While listening I often wondered if I would have liked her character more if I had read it (and therefore read it with how I thought her intonations would be) as opposed to listening to the audiobook. 

laurenkh's review

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

marniest's review

4.25

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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

abraryn's review

5.0

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Beautifully written characters, my new favorite from the author. 

serenakuj's review

4.0

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

mrskatyg's review against another edition

4.25

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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