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szymek_w_rodawski's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Graphic: Pregnancy, Suicide, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Domestic abuse, and Homophobia
Minor: War and Racism
grapefruitjuice's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
Moderate: Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Addiction, and Alcoholism
Minor: War, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Cancer, Dementia, Confinement, Death, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Animal death, and Classism
lonelylooper's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
Graphic: Grief, Pregnancy, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Alcohol, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Death, Mental illness, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Addiction, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Stalking, Blood, Homophobia, Xenophobia, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, Domestic abuse, and Drug abuse
piprigsby's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Suicide attempt and Suicide
Minor: Homophobia
_fallinglight_'s review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
Giving it 2.5 bc for 65% of the book, I wasn't too aggravated by the writing style and it was even compulsively readable with all the hostage situation and who is the bank robber mystery going on–even if I was finding the characters grating and not relatable at all, which isn't usually a complaint I have towards characters but relatability, empathy seemed to be a pertinent factor for this book. But then, it kept beating the point over and over and over and over the head I got so incensed! I finished the book out of spite bc I'd already spent so many days on it, might as well see how this man wrapped this story up. It's so bad though. Fourth rate Dickens stuff. Oh, and the humor is intolerably bad, too.
Sincerely, an anxious person.
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Suicide
Moderate: Grief, Death of parent, and Mental illness
Minor: Homophobia
scmiller's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Death, Death of parent, Classism, Grief, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide
Moderate: Pregnancy and Alcoholism
Minor: Drug use, Addiction, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Physical abuse, and Racism
fantaiil's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
I love his words, his characters and how he makes me cry while talking about humans and their inability of saying, what they want to say.
This book is about love, despair, kids, dumb choices, pizza, love, marriage, kids and their parents, money, capitalism, love and a bridge. It's about the connection between people and the irrational things we do, when we feel emotions that are to big to describe.
Backman is a magician. A magician of words and sentences and making one feel and cry and laugh and feel once again.
I wish, I could buy this book a thousand times and gift it to everyone I know.
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness
Moderate: Death, Kidnapping, Self harm, Murder, Blood, Violence, Grief, Addiction, and Abandonment
Minor: Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Classism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic friendship, and Gun violence
epen's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
Moderate: Suicide and Homophobia
Minor: Racism
stephmcoakley's review against another edition
- 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
3.75
Graphic: Addiction, Dementia, Drug use, Gun violence, Alcohol, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide attempt, Death, Grief, Homophobia, Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Alcoholism
grace_lynn08's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, and Homophobia
Minor: Emotional abuse