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Us Against You by Fredrik Backman

21 reviews

entropyseeker's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

It's 4:30AM and I've been reading for 5 hours. The bears from Beartown could keep me reading for ages. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Hate crime, Homophobia, Sexual assault, Violence, Grief, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Rape, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Excrement

violetduckie's review against another edition

challenging emotional inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

This book is very emotional and has me questioning a lot of things. Backman is great at building his characters into real loveable people, often time not knowing who you should root for. Love the writing, love how he makes the reader think. 

A downside is that this is a very long book that takes a meandering time to get to the point. Usually I don’t like that, but Backman is the exception to my rule 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying and Car accident

Moderate: Cancer and Homophobia

Minor: Rape

squintyfarmer's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Rape, Violence, and Car accident

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and Suicide

lizziaha's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.25

To start with the negative, i think that this book just had too many fake-outs and political machinations for me. The political machinations couldn’t really be avoided—they were part of the story that Backman wants to tell, and very necessary. I just found them boring. The fake-outs, on the other hand, felt distracting to that story. I think it made certain emotional moments feel cheap instead of impactful. That being said, this book does emotion and characters beautifully. There’s a really palpable sense of connection between the characters. And i think that’s really essential to the story of discord. Because you need that connection and that history if you want there to be stakes between warring entities. Once again, I’m at a loss for where this series might go in the next book. And I’m slightly worried about the fates of certain characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Car accident, and Outing

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Drug abuse, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

Minor: Child abuse and Transphobia

mira_tanyasita's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Homophobia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, and Car accident

briniparker's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Car accident

Moderate: Cancer and Death of parent

Minor: Child death and Rape

atalea's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Cursing, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, and Violence

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Car accident, Death of parent, and Outing

Minor: Child death and Vomit

arilee123's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Death of parent, and Alcohol

greenlivingaudioworm's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail, and Classism

marymason's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

unfortunate that i started this right at the start of my reading slump, but it was so well worth pushing through - fredrik backman writes with such heart, and this book is no exception

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Cancer, Death, Homophobia, Violence, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent