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My przeciwko wam by Fredrik Backman

172 reviews

sarahmichelle30's review against another edition

4.0

emotional mysterious sad 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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Self harm, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol

Minor: Physical abuse, 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

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

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

knunderb's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful lighthearted sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Backman's ability to examine the human condition is just superb. I love how he zooms in on a character,.then zooms out on the broader story and then zooms in on another character. He simulateously makes you be so angry at a character and feel so much empathy for them. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Homophobia, Car accident

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

katsnow14's review against another edition

3.5

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Death, Homophobia, Sexism, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Outing

stormeno's review against another edition

4.5

emotional 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Classism

lauren_shilling's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful reflective 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

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Don't even get me started on this series or I won't shut up. Fredrik Backman is my favorite author, and this book was no exception. It was absolutely incredible, and I think it was a little bit better than the first one (not by much though, since they're both incredible). I love how this book makes you think about a lot of things, and the writing is just stunning. Not only that, but the CHARACTERS!!! Never have I read a book where the characters feel as real as they do in this series. It actually blows my mind that these characters do not actually exist and are not actually real people and this town is completely fictional. Even the side characters like Ramona, or characters with such a minimal role that they are only mentioned briefly feel more real than most characters I read about in other books, and even those characters can have huge impacts on the story. This book also propelled one character, Benji, to my favorite fictional character of all time. In Beartown, he was my favorite character and was already one of my favorite characters of all time, but this book really made him my absolute top favorite. I don't think anyone can beat him for that spot. He's such an incredible character, and I love him so very much. He's my favorite, but the other characters deserve to be mentioned too, especially characters like Maya, Amat, Kira, and Vidar. Overall, this series has my favorite cast of characters I have ever read, and it is my favorite series of all time, no doubt about it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug use, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Child death

annavanseveren's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful sad tense 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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 Really didn't think this one would make me cry, but I should've known better. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Homophobia, Violence, Car accident, Outing

Moderate: Rape, Sexual assault, Terminal illness