Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

21 reviews

marigold82's review against another edition

emotional funny medium-paced

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

3.5

If it wasn't for the very wordy and frequent body shaming/fat phobia I would have rated this booknhigher. I enjoyed the point of this book, but the multiple body descriptions of one character was just too much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal cruelty and Miscarriage

Minor: Animal death, Car accident, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

chaoticnostalgia's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cancer, Sexism, Medical content, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Animal death, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

yuna's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

Sad but heartwarming, or is heartwarming but sad? A little of a rough start for me because Ove's grumpy old man-ness, while sort of played for laughs, is rife with every -ist and -ism you can think of. He's super intolerant. A customer service-facing job's worst nightmare. 

Throughout the course of the story you learn why/how he is the way he is, and a  lot of it is wonderful. I really liked the structure of this book and how the backstory unfolds with the present. His relationship with Sonja is so tender and lovely, and the slow creation of a found family in the present is great. Translation work was very good--it read very fluidly.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt

Moderate: Fatphobia, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Xenophobia, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty and Animal death

A few CW notes: so much suicidal ideation in this book. Homophobia, xenophobia (that Ove only sort of softens on. He grows to be more understanding/accepting in a lot of ways, but there's a layer of ingrained xenophobia he never truly gets over), and both overt and casual fatphobia. Minor animal cruelty.

letsavoidadulting's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Very well-written but makes jokes out of things I don’t find funny, including

suicide and animal abuse

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Animal cruelty

Minor: Animal death

vniasf's review against another edition

I am extremely sensitive when it comes to animal abuse, I get anxiety attacks from it. When it happened the first time in the book I thought it was also the last, I even ripped the pages out. However, there was more abuse and I could not take it. (Yes, I did forget to read the content warnings because I did not know where they were.)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cursing, Death, Miscarriage, Racism, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

fujo_cat's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I definitely had high expectations... That were not totally met. While I did not love Ove at the beginning, I certainly did not find the neighborhood family's stubbornness and behavior very nice. It feels very forceful and I was even taking Ove's side, just wishing for him to leave the lady lmao In the end, the whole plot felt a bit empty and I did not feel much for the cast... At least it wasn't bad enough that I'd drop it haha

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Cursing, Homophobia, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal death, Chronic illness, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, and Antisemitism

bitterseason's review against another edition

emotional funny sad slow-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: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Misogyny and Sexism

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Dementia, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

cianarae's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide attempt, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Dementia, Medical trauma, and Car accident

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Cancer, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

antoniaodernein's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Animal death, Cancer, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, Medical content, and Pregnancy

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Dementia, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury

shannanigans92's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Death, Fatphobia, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cancer, Child death, Homophobia, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Dementia, Car accident, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

Minor: Animal death, Infertility, Violence, and Blood