A review by bookishandjoyceful
Beartown by Fredrik Backman

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book... It was slow to start and took a while to get past the set up of characters and the town, however, once it does... WOW! Beartown is a hockey town where hockey always comes first no matter what. When the hockey team has its best chance at winning a championship, things go wrong and it leaves a girl's life changed forever! Travel through this town while this terrible town works through this whole situation. Backman's writing is absolutely beautiful, but this book made me so angry and definitely threw me around on this one. I would definitely look out for the major trigger warnings as this book is full of them and has extremely strong victim-blaming from the rape. While this book was so dark and emotional, after reading this, A Man Called Ove and Anxious People, I will absolutely continue to pick up Backman's books in the future. 
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