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A review by nouranato
My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman
4.0
One of my first reads for Fredrick Backman and will probably not be the last (I saw a mutual here who read all his books). Augh this book was gorgeous. It felt so real and unreal at the same time.
I'm not even going to deny the fact that at some point I thought the grandmother stories were actually in real life because of how much Elsa believed, acted and used them in context. All the characters felt like real people that you could see/interact with, each one with a past and regrets and with present hopes and dreams.
I have nothing bad to say about this book other than that Elsa's character felt very developed, Elsa is 7 years old going to be 8 but she felt that she has skills so advanced for that age. That's why to me she felt precocious, so maybe it would've been more believable if she was maybe 10 here but I feel like that would've ruined the grandma role of being a storyteller. Also I genuinely don't appreciate nor like books that start talking about god in a non-positive manner because it always feels backward and stupid.
Overall the book was nice, it shed light on wars and what it does to children specifically, also the author mentioned Palestine and called it a conflict which is also something that I don't appreciate, we're far more educated than that. Otherwise great story, great characters and great way of portraying of their differences.
I'm not even going to deny the fact that at some point I thought the grandmother stories were actually in real life because of how much Elsa believed, acted and used them in context. All the characters felt like real people that you could see/interact with, each one with a past and regrets and with present hopes and dreams.
I have nothing bad to say about this book other than that Elsa's character felt very developed, Elsa is 7 years old going to be 8 but she felt that she has skills so advanced for that age. That's why to me she felt precocious, so maybe it would've been more believable if she was maybe 10 here but I feel like that would've ruined the grandma role of being a storyteller. Also I genuinely don't appreciate nor like books that start talking about god in a non-positive manner because it always feels backward and stupid.
Overall the book was nice, it shed light on wars and what it does to children specifically, also the author mentioned Palestine and called it a conflict which is also something that I don't appreciate, we're far more educated than that. Otherwise great story, great characters and great way of portraying of their differences.