Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

My przeciwko wam by Fredrik Backman

173 reviews

miriamped's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Bullying, Homophobia, Car accident, Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Classism

wellreadjill_'s review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective 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: Death, Drug use, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual content

ffj's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective sad 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident

aromarrie's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury

erinnz's review against another edition

4.0

emotional reflective 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: Death

Moderate: Drug use, Car accident, Death of parent

rachellewiski's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Grief, Car accident, Outing

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Death of parent

carmenvillaman's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Chronic illness, Homophobia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Death of parent

jaec11's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional inspiring 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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This book is a beautiful continuation of the first, continuing plotlines and characters and sucking you into this beautiful and messed up town

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Violence, Car accident

bookstorian's review against another edition

4.0

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After reading 'Beartown' earlier this year I was interested in seeing how the story would continue and so when I finally found a copy of the sequel at Petrarch's Bookstore in Launceston in October I purchased it, brought it all the way back to Brisbane and popped it on my shelf for a few months before reading it. Like a true bookworm. 

'Us Against You' continues the story of the residents of Beartown who are dealing with a multitude of personal, family and social issues that seem to find each and every household. Heart wrenching, tragic yet beautifully told 'Us Against You' continues to raise important issues not only about politics within sport, social economic status but also about sexuality, survival and dreams. 

There is so much I love about the story, here are a few things: 
-plot: filled with foreshadowing, twists, turns, highs and lows. I love how something might be dropped into the story and then circled back to. 
-characters: there is just so many of them and so much light and shade to each. It's amazing how one feels like the enemy and then becomes the hero or vice versa. 
-writing style: the short sharp paragraphs with frequent page breaks, shifts in characters and unifying moments threaded within chapters and throughout chapters. It leaves me in awe thinking about the logistics of writing a novel such as this. Everything is intertwined so elaborately.  
-ending: I knew from the get go it was going to be earth-shattering. It was. 

The politics dragged a little for me and I had some strong urges for the first 1/8th of the book to put it down as I just wasn't that interested in the story and it is incredibly heavy. I am glad I persisted for the sake of the plot and the characters through! 

This is an important read for anyone. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia, Rape, Car accident, Death of parent

jennneely82's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Violence, Outing

Moderate: Child death, Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury