Reviews tagging 'Sexism'

Beartown by Fredrik Backman

287 reviews

c_alexander's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Gun violence, Homophobia, Suicide, Violence, Murder

Minor: Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

hoppyread's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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: Bullying, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, Sexual harassment

Minor: Vomit

tlaynejones's review against another edition

5.0

slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual violence, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Child death, Domestic abuse, Racism, Violence, Gaslighting

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

mackennac's review against another edition

4.0

emotional inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

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: Rape

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, Death, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Pregnancy, Alcohol

ginawinemiller's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexism

Moderate: Homophobia

katliana's review against another edition

3.5

dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Rape, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Lesbophobia

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

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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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Homophobia, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Violence, Toxic friendship

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol

marinnelilly's review against another edition

4.75

emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Loveable characters: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Sexism, Sexual assault

brookey8888's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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This was good, but a very hard read. This is also insanely slow. I knew what this was about which I feel is low key a spoiler because the summary on the back doesn’t mention what happened. It was just so interesting to see how all the people reacted to this event and the motivation behind. This did make me so angry though. I honestly didn’t care about the hockey at 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Islamophobia, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail, Classism

caseydot's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault

Moderate: Homophobia, Sexism

Minor: Gun violence