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Beartown by Fredrik Backman

51 reviews

charlievsmith's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-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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adrilynn21's review against another edition

4.5

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious 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: Complicated

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thehannahclaire's review against another edition

4.25

emotional reflective 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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aisclaradm's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional inspiring 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

I can’t give this five stars because as much as I adored it, it simply cannot be put on the same level as haine
of the masterpieces I’ve read this year — I bestow upon it a 4.5 that is in my heart and soul a 5.

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m0dp0dge's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful reflective

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

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lifeisjustafictionalrelm_'s review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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

Second read: 3/13/25
This book has its impacted officially imprinted on my soul, and that is saying something coming from a person who doesn’t care to read about sports as a central point in books. Lucky for this book, it is much more than a book about hockey, hockey is a symbol for a community, love, empathy, and morality. Which, as a deeply emotional human being, I appreciated reading depicted in such an intricate way! Plus, the manner in which this book talks about *spoiler warning!!* SA is done in greatly emphatic way, it made me feel so much and also allowed me to examine my own moral justifications, which if any book can pull that out of a reader, it has done its job as a piece of literature, in my opinion. Please read this book if you have the mental capacity to read about dark, yet profoundly hopefully topics being portrayed by characters who are so humanizing.💕 5/5⭐️! I’m so thankful I reread this book now that I am in a different place mentally and physically in my own life! (:
First read: 9/11/24

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carlytenille's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-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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luciferlibrarian_93's review against another edition

4.5

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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salt_y's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Frederick Backman simply has a way with words. Although this book made me cry most of the time, all the characters were written with such care that it took my breath away. The beginning was rather hard to get into properly, especially with the constantly switching perspectives, representing basically everyone who lives in Beartown. As soon as the 40% mark hit however, I couldn't put it down and was destroyed by the story in the best way. Mind the content warnings before going into this!

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rosiereading's review against another edition

5.0

emotional 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: N/A

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