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amberinbookland 's review for:
Beartown
by Fredrik Backman
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
This is a tough one to review. I feel like I should rate this higher simply because I do agree that it is an important read but the truth is, I just didn't think that it was particularly well executed. The characters were very two dimensional and considering what the book was trying to comment on, I was disappointed by how little page-time the victim was given.
I could have put this down at any time because it just wasn't engaging to me. I actually preferred Britt-Marie Was Here, which is one of Backman's lower rated books on goodreads, because the characters in that novel were fully fleshed out and it was edited in a way that made it succinct, whereas Beartown could have been at least 100 pages shorter.
I own the sequel and I'll probably give it a try at some point but I doubt whether I'll finish it.
I could have put this down at any time because it just wasn't engaging to me. I actually preferred Britt-Marie Was Here, which is one of Backman's lower rated books on goodreads, because the characters in that novel were fully fleshed out and it was edited in a way that made it succinct, whereas Beartown could have been at least 100 pages shorter.
I own the sequel and I'll probably give it a try at some point but I doubt whether I'll finish it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Child death, Death, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence