Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

92 reviews

likeagilmoregirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Homophobia, Mental illness, Alcohol, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, Bullying, Death, Death of parent, and Panic attacks/disorders

tara_valeria's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

Sequel, hockey, grief, gay, friendship, small town

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Violence, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child death, and Outing

biddibee's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

Everything Backman writes feels like the easiest 5 stars I've ever given. Nobody can write characters like him. He can show the good in every one, regardless of how awful he might portray them at first. He does suspense so well in this book that parts were painful to read. He doesn't make things easy and things don't go the way you want, but his books are perfect. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Homophobia

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Sexual violence, Rape, Suicide, and Violence

natrix's review against another edition

dark emotional tense 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Outing, Car accident, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Homophobia, Sexism, Violence, Physical abuse, and Suicide

rishel's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Bullying

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, and Car accident

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

sarahmichelle30's review against another edition

emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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: Bullying, Fire/Fire injury, Addiction, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Alcohol, Outing, Adult/minor relationship, Drug use, Self harm, Homophobia, Alcoholism, and Child abuse

Minor: Physical abuse and Rape

elisabethspidle's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, and Outing

leonormsousa's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Blood, Child abuse, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Lesbophobia, Violence, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Classism, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Panic attacks/disorders, Stalking, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

jenna_s_9's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.5

This was an incredible follow up to Beartown. 

It did take me a little longer to connect and I felt like the second half of the book was spectacular and really captured the lightning in a bottle feel that Backman had with book one. 

It is tough to read at times, but my god does Backman have a way of capturing complexities and feeding them to us in a way that feels entirely relatable. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Sexual harassment, Homophobia, and Violence

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Alcoholism, and Terminal illness

Minor: Sexual assault

djschnitzer's review against another edition

slow-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Gun violence, Toxic friendship, Hate crime, Outing, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Violence