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Μπιερνστάντ εναντίον όλων by Fredrik Backman

35 reviews

yochananvered's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Sequels often don’t live up to the first installment. This one did. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Sexism, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Outing

Moderate: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Rape

tlaynejones's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional hopeful sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

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Similarly moving and challenging as the first book, but phew, the homophobia was almost too much. It should have been a predictable progression from the first book, if I’d have thought about it, but I hadn’t, so I wasn’t prepared. The same culture of toxic masculinity that feeds the destructive misogyny in book one, fuels the homophobia in book 2. I may take a little break before I begin the last book in the trilogy. So far I definitely recommend these books - if you enjoy descriptive stories about the complexities and contradictions of being human, but beware of the CW.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Bullying, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Xenophobia, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child death, Drug abuse, Death of parent

programmedcelldeath's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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: Homophobia, Violence, Car accident

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Rape, Sexism, Death of parent, Outing

Minor: Child abuse

gillianalice's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Backman doesn’t miss. At the beginning of this book, I remember thinking “wow. Screw this town and everyone in it.” And yet at the end, I’m crying over “we are the bears! The bears from beartown!” I don’t know how he does it. 

I’m dreading the next book. I remember my mom reading it, and she was sobbing at the end. But I know it’s going to be amazing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Sexism

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.25

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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To start with the negative, i think that this book just had too many fake-outs and political machinations for me. The political machinations couldn’t really be avoided—they were part of the story that Backman wants to tell, and very necessary. I just found them boring. The fake-outs, on the other hand, felt distracting to that story. I think it made certain emotional moments feel cheap instead of impactful. That being said, this book does emotion and characters beautifully. There’s a really palpable sense of connection between the characters. And i think that’s really essential to the story of discord. Because you need that connection and that history if you want there to be stakes between warring entities. Once again, I’m at a loss for where this series might go in the next book. And I’m slightly worried about the fates of certain characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Car accident, Outing

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Drug abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Minor: Child abuse, Transphobia

dani794's review against another edition

5.0

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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"People we love will die. We will bury our children beneath our most beautiful trees."

fredrik, you have done it again, constantly raising the bar for us all and doing it flawlessly. i’d say i’m surprised but i know who you are.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Outing

atalea's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional sad 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: Bullying, Cursing, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Car accident, Death of parent, Outing

Minor: Child death, Vomit

hannasandmann's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark 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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Comes nothing short of part 1. I was hooked. 
I still can't get my head around how every character in this series is a fully fledged human, because there are a lot and I feel like I know them all. Fredrik Backman did an immaculate job here. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Outing

Moderate: Addiction, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Car accident

Minor: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury

verafey's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional inspiring 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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This book had way more political aspects than the previous one in the series and still not quite sure if I liked that or not. This book was also very very sad and depressing for a long time and that was a bit too much for me. It took 300 pages to finally get to see some light at the end of the tunnel. I did really like the themes of (found) family and unconditional love, friendship, sexism/feminism and lgbtqia+. This book was definitely an emotional rollercoaster.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexism, Violence, Grief, Outing, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury

ate_reads's review against another edition

3.5

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Drug use, Gun violence, Suicide, Death of parent, Lesbophobia