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Beartown by Fredrik Backman

376 reviews

nicholeigh's review

dark emotional hopeful slow-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

Moderate: Emotional abuse and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

adcamp04's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring 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

Moderate: Rape, Homophobia, and Alcohol

Minor: Child death and Suicidal thoughts

readwithcaitlyn's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Homophobia

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts

katliana's review against another edition

dark medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, and Sexism

trophysoph's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

The book has an ebb and flow. Sometimes it spends too long on things and sometimes the plot shoots by you. At some point you come to understand that whatever you expect to happen will likely not be quite what happens

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism and Bullying

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

risemini's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Bullying, Misogyny, Alcohol, Death of parent, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Grief, Domestic abuse, and Rape

astoriareader's review against another edition

challenging slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No

2.0

SYNOPSIS

• Beartown is a small town, where everyone worships the hockey team.
• Basically, the town’s future is riding on the success of the junior boys’ hockey team.
• Each chapter contains lots of different characters & shifts between their perspectives.
• Check trigger warnings, as main conflict in book involves sexual assault/rape.

MY THOUGHTS

• The writing style was strange to me. I didn’t like the third person narrator, and I wasn’t a fan of the shifting perspective every few minutes.
• Sooo many characters & perspectives that I never felt truly connected to any of them.
• The ending was not satisfying.
• Story drags on far too long.

TL;DR: ⭐️⭐️this one wasn’t for me, unfortunately.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Rape

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, and Gun violence

waywardgurl's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Bullying, and Homophobia

salt_y's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

Frederick Backman simply has a way with words. Although this book made me cry most of the time, all the characters were written with such care that it took my breath away. The beginning was rather hard to get into properly, especially with the constantly switching perspectives, representing basically everyone who lives in Beartown. As soon as the 40% mark hit however, I couldn't put it down and was destroyed by the story in the best way. Mind the content warnings before going into this!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Rape, Homophobia, Violence, Sexism, Misogyny, and Bullying

Moderate: Gun violence, Eating disorder, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Alcohol

1ng3's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, and Violence

Minor: Suicidal thoughts