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kellyisntcool's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Addiction
scmiller's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Classism, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
Moderate: Pregnancy and Alcoholism
Minor: Drug use, Addiction, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Physical abuse, and Racism
haileyhardcover's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death, and Grief
Moderate: Drug use, Drug abuse, Addiction, Classism, and Pregnancy
Minor: Blood, Panic attacks/disorders, Cancer, Alcohol, Dementia, Death of parent, and Sexism
fantaiil's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I love his words, his characters and how he makes me cry while talking about humans and their inability of saying, what they want to say.
This book is about love, despair, kids, dumb choices, pizza, love, marriage, kids and their parents, money, capitalism, love and a bridge. It's about the connection between people and the irrational things we do, when we feel emotions that are to big to describe.
Backman is a magician. A magician of words and sentences and making one feel and cry and laugh and feel once again.
I wish, I could buy this book a thousand times and gift it to everyone I know.
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness
Moderate: Death, Kidnapping, Self harm, Murder, Blood, Violence, Grief, Addiction, and Abandonment
Minor: Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Classism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic friendship, and Gun violence
heyyoukindacute's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Suicide and Suicide attempt
stephs_cozycorner's review against another edition
5.0
It’s not often I can say I was completely and utterly hooked after the first chapter, but this book had me hooked from the get go.
I had no clue what this book was about and what I was getting into. I laughed (𝖺 𝗅𝗈𝗍), I cried (𝖺 𝗅𝗈𝗍) and I had every emotion in between.
Fredrik Backman has such a unique writing style. I fell in love with literally every single character in this book. They were an eclectic bunch of people. Each had something different to bring the pages, and following along with each of them as they went on this journey was both heart wrenching and beautiful. I loved how so many characters had connections they didn’t even know about.
The police interviews had me laughing out loud. The satire and comedy was just utter perfection.
𝘼𝙣𝙭𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 will be, without a doubt, in my top reads lists this year. I have not stopped thinking about this book and these characters.
Please do yourself a favour and pick this book up if you haven’t read it yet, you won’t be disappointed.
And note, I’ve purposely left you in the blind as I think going into this book blind is the way to go! You can read the synopsis if you must 🤣.
Also, please make note of trigger warnings as this book does deal with some sensitive topics.
⚠️ Suicide. Attempted suicide. Mental illness. Panic attacks. Death. Grief. Alcoholism. Addiction. Death of a parent.
Moderate: Suicide, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Addiction, Suicide attempt, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Grief, and Death of parent
kayleejanes's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Grief, Kidnapping, Addiction, Pregnancy, Suicide, Alcohol, Blood, Gun violence, and Suicide attempt
chasingpages1's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Grief, Death, Confinement, Suicide attempt, Gun violence, Death of parent, Alcohol, Suicide, Kidnapping, and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Mental illness, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, and Bullying
Minor: Alcoholism, Classism, Dementia, Gaslighting, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Drug use, Addiction, and Blood
meenalgarg's review against another edition
- 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
Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Addiction
runpinkyrun's review against another edition
- 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
Minor: Mental illness, Abandonment, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Child abuse, Suicide, Panic attacks/disorders, Addiction, and Alcoholism