Reviews tagging 'Pregnancy'

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

171 reviews

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Dementia, Dysphoria, Grief, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia

kpitsker's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Fatphobia, Xenophobia, Homophobia, Child death, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, and Death

kathleendayle's review against another edition

emotional funny sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Minor: Death, Pregnancy, and Miscarriage

staceyinthesticks's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dementia, Suicide attempt, Death, and Grief

Minor: Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Animal cruelty, Cancer, Cursing, Chronic illness, Homophobia, Miscarriage, and Car accident

alex1's review

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective 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? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Cancer, Car accident, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Medical content, Miscarriage, Self harm, Death of parent, and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Ableism

iwishihadmoretimetoread's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted 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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Death, Animal cruelty, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Grief, Suicide attempt, Forced institutionalization, Self harm, and Ableism

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Pregnancy, Cancer, and Miscarriage

aliciaallen's review against another edition

emotional 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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Pregnancy and Violence

ellaticonstellation's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• 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

Damn, this is dark. Ove just wants to die after he lost his wife but for a reason, he's bad at it because of his neighbors. 

It made me sad that he lost the love of his life and brought his heart with her when she passed. 

Loneliness must have eaten him inside out. Good thing, he met new people around the community even though he's the most grumpy old man alive; people around him seemed to get his tough exterior. 

It's like Ove complains a lot about other people's choices, decisions, and intelligence, but helps them anyway. I'm in my early 30s and I understood his annoyance because sometimes people younger or older than me are way different than I am. 

This story is heartwarming, and sad, but funny at some points because of the community he is in. 

I love that Parvaneh's kids considered him as their granddad, that's so sweet. He even gifted one of them a new iPad. So sweet❤️

Ove must have been happy to die and meet Sonja in the afterlife like what he wanted all along. 

Even though he wanted to go; he touched people's lives before he did and that made this story worth reading. 

It's as if he found a family before going to the love of his life. He must have a lot of stories for her. 

Ove and Sonja's love story broke me😭

Now, I have to see the movie adaptation.🔥

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Suicide attempt, Violence, Child death, Pregnancy, Death, Grief, Self harm, Abandonment, and Suicidal thoughts

ambaright's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

A Man Called Ove is a heart-warming book about the life of one angry old man, and the profound impact he has on his neighborhood community. This novel truly teaches us all about the unreliability of first impressions and the deep impact love has on all of our lives. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Grief

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, and Death

Minor: Homophobia

pkc's review

dark emotional funny 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

5.0

This book is so beautiful. I love it when an author takes a seemingly unloveable character and fills them with so much heart, pathos and goodness that you can’t help but root for them. Backman even goes as far as to book-end the story with two halves of the same scene so that where the unsuspecting reader views the eponymous Ove as a grumpy, horrid man in the beginning, we have accepted his flaws (for the most part!) by the end. The cast of supporting characters is so beautifully drawn and I’d be so shocked if you didn’t finish this book in floods of tears. I sure as heck did.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Dementia, Child death, Car accident, Terminal illness, Fire/Fire injury, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Suicide attempt, Miscarriage, Outing, Pregnancy, and Suicidal thoughts