BY FREDRIK BACKMAN
NARRATED BY MARIN IRELAND
THE DETAILS✎
❐ BEARTOWN #2❐ HOCKEY LIFE❐ THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT POV❐ HOW THE TOWN FALLS AFTER...❐ LITERARY FICTION❐ SWEDEN❐ LENGTH OF AUDIO ➯ 14 HOURS, 17 MINUTES❐ I LISTENED ON LIBBY THROUGH MY LIBRARY
It's clearly more than just a game for this town...
A solid follow-up to Beartown...giving you insight into how the town is dealing with the fall-out of the rape and loss of their "best" players to Hed. When a new coach comes to town and new players are added to the team, tensions rise, secrets come out, and someone ends up dead. I loved the new coach, BTW.
I'm on the fence as to whether I gel with the author's way of storytelling...where he gives away the end at the beginning of each new segment in the book, like spoilers. It's quite foreboding but it does ratchet up the tension...so I guess...maybe it does work. Overall, these two books about Beartown are emotional...ofttimes sad but also altogether uplifting.
If you liked Beartown, then you should like this too. Marin Ireland's voice feels perfect as the omniscient narrator. With only a slight accent on her words here and there, that I could always hear the most when she says Hed and it sounds like hjed.
BREAKDOWN✎Narration ➯ 5 STARSPlot ➯ 5/5Characters ➯ 5/5The Feels ➯ 5/5Pacing ➯ 4.5/5Addictiveness ➯ 4.5/5Theme, Tone or Intensity ➯ 5/5Originality/Believability ➯ 5/5Flow (Writing Style/Ease of Listening) ➯ 4.3/5World-Building ➯ 5/5Ending ➯ 5/5SUMMATION ➯ 4¾ STARS
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