Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

En man som heter Ove by Fredrik Backman

122 reviews

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

4.0

Ove is the kind of cantankerous old man you can’t help but love. He hangs on to his beliefs even when others challenge him and is a good man, even though he gripes about everyone else’s incompetence. This novel is a lesson in grief and love and how we choose to go on with life even when it feels like it’s crumbling down around us. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Pregnancy, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, Ableism, Cancer, Death of parent, Homophobia, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Death, Dementia, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Miscarriage

marisa_kingsley77's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Suicide

Minor: Cancer, Death of parent, and Dementia

romeroreads's review against another edition

dark emotional lighthearted sad

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Suicide attempt, and Grief

Moderate: Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Death, Dementia, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Homophobia, Misogyny, Animal cruelty, Car accident, Death of parent, and Cancer

sh_m22's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

This book made me cry multiple times. What a tough but brilliant read. Ove is a character that you can't help but love, despite how much of an arse he acts. Funny, poignant and with a diverse range of well-developed characters. Found family from the perspective of the oldest "grandad" in the group is not a version of this trope that is seen very often and it was so great to see it develop organically over the novel. Highly highly reccomend this book but make sure you have tissues to hand and definitely check content warnings first as suicidal thoughts/attempts feature heavily in this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia, Fatphobia, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

the plot of the book is the main character repeatedly trying to kill himself and getting interrupted at the last second or the attempt failing. I think it was at least 6 graphic/detailed attempts

cady_sass's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Not to be dramatic but I would die for Ove 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Death, Self harm, Car accident, Pregnancy, Death of parent, Grief, Medical trauma, Medical content, Miscarriage, Cancer, Suicidal thoughts, and Terminal illness

waybeyondblue's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Bullying, Dementia, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Racism, Domestic abuse, Child death, Cancer, Terminal illness, Death, Death of parent, Car accident, and Outing

notjust_irene's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

4.5

Ok, so I really loved this book, but there were a couple of issues that prevented me from giving it 5 stars.
It didn’t take away from the reading experience as such, but it did make me frown a couple of times because it was quite unrealistic.

- the amount of drama Ove has to go through during his lifetime is a bit much and at one point I almost rolled my eyes as another blow was delivered to Ove’s happiness.
- Neither Ove nor his wife have any relatives they keep in touch with? None of his wife’s friends check up on Ove after her passing? Sure… maybe the author wanted to make the story flow a bit easier or emphasise the loneliness of Ove, but it wasn’t very realistic. 
- the cat that goes along willingly into the car and bars, yes, these type of cats exist, but they’re extremely rare and their owners keep them on a leash. Also, it’s not typically something those cats do for people they’ve only moved in with two days ago. That’s why every cat owner knows to keep their nee cat inside for the first weeks to let them adapt.
- he’s 59 in the year 2015, works for a building company yet doesn’t grasp the concept of an iPad or any digital medium at all? Come on!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infertility, Pregnancy, Suicide attempt, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, and Miscarriage

feliscatusnum_1's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Animal cruelty, Suicide attempt, Death, and Death of parent

beccabou's review against another edition

sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

Not the genre for me.
Too slow, too real life (aka boring), and while I empathize with the protagonist, I didn’t root for him or like him.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent and Suicide attempt

marigold82's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

If it wasn't for the very wordy and frequent body shaming/fat phobia I would have rated this booknhigher. I enjoyed the point of this book, but the multiple body descriptions of one character was just too much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Body shaming, Suicide attempt, and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Miscarriage

Minor: Car accident, Animal death, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail