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emiemin55 's review for:
My Friends
by Fredrik Backman
emotional
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Backman doesn’t disappoint, he really doesn't. Even if this is one of my less favorite of his books, it’s still incredible, it still made me cry. He has always had the ability to make his characters so achingly human, so unbelievably heartbreaking.
Now for the reasons why this book didn’t work as well for as his other works. It was 2 stories in one where both the present and the past didn’t feel as developed as they could have been otherwise. I didn’t feel like I could reach out and touch each character as if they were my long lost friends, the way I have in his other books. Still incredible, just missing a certain touch. Because we couldn’t concentrate on only one side of the story, it felt a little incomplete on both ends. I would have preferred for the book to be almost split in 2 parts so both the past and the present could have had a moment to breathe be felt.
However, despite it all I still cried during many parts of this book and I still have an insane amount of lines underlined because of the sheer humanity they show.
Again, still a good book and I’m looking forward to more of Backman’s writing, if he so chooses.
Now for the reasons why this book didn’t work as well for as his other works. It was 2 stories in one where both the present and the past didn’t feel as developed as they could have been otherwise. I didn’t feel like I could reach out and touch each character as if they were my long lost friends, the way I have in his other books. Still incredible, just missing a certain touch. Because we couldn’t concentrate on only one side of the story, it felt a little incomplete on both ends. I would have preferred for the book to be almost split in 2 parts so both the past and the present could have had a moment to breathe be felt.
However, despite it all I still cried during many parts of this book and I still have an insane amount of lines underlined because of the sheer humanity they show.
Again, still a good book and I’m looking forward to more of Backman’s writing, if he so chooses.