Reviews tagging 'Violence'

My przeciwko wam by Fredrik Backman

209 reviews

escsmith's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Car accident

brett311's review against another edition

3.0

dark sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Violence

Minor: Rape

leonormsousa's review against another edition

4.0

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

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Content Warnings

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

jenna_s_9's review against another edition

4.5

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

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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, Homophobia, Violence, Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness

Minor: Sexual assault

kellylayne's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Car accident, Outing

Moderate: Sexual violence, Suicide

djschnitzer's review against another edition

2.0

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

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Content Warnings

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

mcoleman1250's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Outing

bridget_t's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, Outing

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Misogyny, Rape, Blood, Car accident, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, Fire/Fire injury

court_epple's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Violence

river69rat's review against another edition

5.0

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

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I loved Beartown but I was not expecting to love this book even more. Maybe it's the connection you get with the characters that made going into this book even more emotionally charged, but the new characters introduced also captured me immensely. This book just broke my heart yet brought me so much hope. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence

Minor: Sexual assault