7.39k reviews for:

My Friends

Fredrik Backman

4.54 AVERAGE

andi_loves_2_read's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous 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

jdgcreates's review

DID NOT FINISH: 4%

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The teen angst and redundant writing got on my nerves quickly. 

isabella_schwr's review

5.0

dark emotional funny inspiring 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

jenniferrun50's review

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-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

katelkrame's review

5.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

brittanyducky's review against another edition

5.0

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Fredrik Backman does it again. This damn book made me cry so many times and I absolutely loved it. I have to buy a physical copy because it has so many beautiful lines I want to highlight. 

maglyb's review

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing 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

bookwyrmbutch's review

3.5

emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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My Friends is about a famous painting, and the friendships that inspired it. It's about nostalgia and grief, and how nothing in your life will ever feel like the friendships you had as a teenager. It is very successful at evoking those feelings!

At some points the narrative felt very manipulative. Or perhaps manipulated would be a better word, manipulated by the author to create more suspense. One half of the narrative is a man, Ted, telling the story of his childhood to a teenage girl, and I doubt he would tell it the way the narrative does. I doubt he would purposely mislead (to an almost comical point) Louisa to believe that his loved ones were dead when they were alive and well! The author also has a tragic run-on sentence habit.

ittywitty's review

4.5

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-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

waverlyg2004's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny 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