Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

My przeciwko wam by Fredrik Backman

172 reviews

bookswithlauren's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

niteskyi's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional 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: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Outing

Moderate: Rape

jilley28's review against another edition

5.0

emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Rape

nikimorr's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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“The complicated thing about good and bad people alike is that most of us can be both at the same time.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Death of parent

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

marypetrushko's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional inspiring 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia

Minor: Car accident

kananineko's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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: Death, Homophobia, Violence, Outing

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Misogyny, Sexism, Terminal illness, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Cursing, Drug use, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Dementia, Lesbophobia, Classism

danicam's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Suicide attempt

meeklovestoread's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional funny hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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If I'm being honest I was really scared to get into this book because although I really liked Beartown (I read it like months ago). I thought the book was very slow and took a while for me to get into, but I ended up loving it. I didn't know there would be sequels otherwise I would've read them back to back. I hadn't read a book from this author since Beartown so I was afraid that I'd be intimidated by the writing and the length of the book. I'm so glad I was worried for nothing because I ended up loving the book of course.

However, I don't what it was but it did take me a long time to finish it (about seven days). Like for the first few days, I would only read about 30 pages a day and then not have the urge to pick up the book which is weird because the book was still good, I guess I just wasn't in the right mood for those couple days.

What did help was as I was reading this book I was also watching the show that they made for the first book; that also got me into the mood to read the book so that was great. 

I love the themes the book explored and how it handled the aftereffects of Maya's r@pe and how the town's people reacted. Once I got into it again I just couldn't believe but adored the way that Backman wrote in through his multiple third-person narratives. There were parts of politics in this book that I found both confusing and also intriguing. I  really wish I understood politics. I was so invested in what Rochard Theo was planning and how he was able to bend everyone to do what he wanted. Loved Benji and Amat and Bobo! And also I'm really feeling for Leo, I hope we get more of him in the next book. I also like how hopeful the ending (and everything else) was without being all "happily ever after"-like. I think I would've rated it book 5 stars if it were for the fact that it just took me so long to finish it.

Ana outting Benji for being gay was the ultimate sign of disrespect for me. I did not like her character after that and personally didn't feel like she deserved to be forgiven.

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Outing

Moderate: Bullying, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Cursing, Gun violence, Hate crime, Blood, Dementia, Alcohol

kassidyreads's review against another edition

4.0

challenging emotional sad slow-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: Alcoholism, Death, Homophobia, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent

Moderate: Bullying, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Self harm

Minor: Child death, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury

emily_koopmann's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Violence

Minor: Sexual violence