![]() ![]() These machinations are not alone in being soppy and unearned. To stoke the conflict between the towns, he includes not only the pregnancy-ending factory accident of a nameless woman (ushering in a suspiciously out-of-place anti-abortion sentiment), but also the murder of a beloved dog. He wants to assure readers that this makes his characters complex, but it really renders them pawns. Backman repeatedly tells the reader about his characters’ overwhelming love for each other, but their ability to actually care for one another comes and goes with the demands of the unwieldy plot. ![]() Beloved characters return, new ones are introduced, tragedy is promised. Only one can seemingly do well at a time-resourcewise or hockeywise the two are interchangeable-and their residents share a mutual, pathological hatred. Life continues haltingly for the inhabitants of Beartown and its rival borough, Hed.Īs in the two earlier books in this series ( Beartown, 2017 Us Against You, 2018), things are never settled between these two hockey-obsessed towns in the forests of Sweden. ![]()
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