A review by lizswartz
The Winners by Fredrik Backman

emotional

4.0

ok. i say this as a HUGE beartown fan: i don’t think this book was very necessary or maybe shouldn’t have been as long as it is. i absolutely LOVEDDDD the first two books but this one felt kind of grueling and repetitive at times. obviously backman is still a genius and i still cried but it felt a bit superfluous. i enjoyed meeting our new cast of characters but we really didn’t need this. and if we did, because there is still great stuff in here (!), a lot could have been cut. a lot was unnecessarily drawn out for suspense. i will always love this series but it’s not a great sign that it took me this long to finish this book when i flew through the others.