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4.42 AVERAGE
4.42 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Grief
Moderate: Bullying, Death, Blood, Car accident, Sexual harassment, Classism
Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A bit less compelling than bear town but wow did the last 30 pages make me cry.
The quote takeaway from the book:
“It’s hard to care about people. Exhausting, in fact, because empathy is a complicated thing. It requires us to accept that everyone else’s lives are also going on the whole time. We have no pause button for when everything gets too much for us to deal with, but then neither does anyone else.”
The quote takeaway from the book:
“It’s hard to care about people. Exhausting, in fact, because empathy is a complicated thing. It requires us to accept that everyone else’s lives are also going on the whole time. We have no pause button for when everything gets too much for us to deal with, but then neither does anyone else.”
This, and Beartown are probably two of my most favourite books of all time.
dark
emotional
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
I became so engulfed in these characters. I laughed, I cried, I felt so many emotions
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
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
There is a "in praise of" quote on the back of this book from Green Valley News that says "though you'll cry, your heart is safe in [Backman's] hands" and that is the most accurate description of what reading these books is like. However, if Benji dies in the third book (haven't read it yet), I will no longer feel like my heart was safe.
There seemed to be more typos/errors in this book than in the first, but I'm not sure why since the translator is the same for both of them...
There seemed to be more typos/errors in this book than in the first, but I'm not sure why since the translator is the same for both of them...