Maybe I am a little emotional but I legit cried after finishing Beartown 🐻 what a story, what a journey with these cast of characters. That book chewed me up and spit me out. I read the book at every possible opportunity because I was so invested in the story 😍, wherever I went in the past few weeks, my Beartown book went with me. I enjoyed this book so much that I am changing the order of the books I want to read this year because I need to finish this series…… I am reading book two – Us Against You, as my April read. My rating for Beartown 11 / 10. I loved it 🥰.
She understands their love of the fight, she shares it. She knows that one of the funny things about fighting for success – is that you never really stop fighting. You never stop being scared of falling from the top, because when you close your eyes you can still feel the pain from each and every step of the way up.
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The story is set in an small cold town in the middle of the forest called Beartown 🧸. The heartbeat of this small town in the middle of nowhere is ice hockey 🏒. Everyone is involved in it or once was involved in it or is related to someone who is. If you are a great hockey player, you are a hometown hero – you are seen as a class above the rest. This first book of the series tells the story of an incident involving one of Beartown heroes and how the club and by extension the town reacts when the news breaks about his shocking behavior. The scandal could not have come at a worse time as the Junior Ice Hockey Team is preparing for their biggest game ever and this incident really shakes things up. Is hockey the most important thing? Can a hockey 🏒 hero get away with anything in a town that worships the sport?.🫢 The book takes you on an emotional roller coaster as we deal with the fall out from the scandal and we observe how much persons are willing to overlook for a sport 🤫. Are sports persons untochable? Not accountable? Do they get a free pass for bad behaviour because they are good at a sport?😳😰
Bitterness can be corrosive; it can rewrite your memories as if it is scrubbing a crime scene clean, until in the end you only remember what suits you of its causes.
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I found this book to be engrossing 💗. I enjoyed reading it and found myself having this book on me at all times, I travelled with it, ate with it, had it at my bedside table and had it in the car whenever I had a long wait for something and knew I may have an extra 30 mins parked up. Every chapter revealed more but still kept you wondering who was the person with the gun in the first chapter of the book🤔. All in all, this was a very enjoyable read and I am looking forward to the other two books in this series: Us Against You and the Winners. I may even check out the HBO Orignal Series that is based on this book sometime.
Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes much easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn’t through love, because love is hard. It makes demands. Hate is simple.
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Have you read Beartown or watched it on TV? What did you think of it? ☺️ This book is available on Amazon.
Much Love ❣️,
Celly
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I haven’t read his books yet, but I believe they’d have me bawling my eyes out too. I’ve only seen a movie adaptation of Man Called Ove, which I loved and cried over.
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Sound interesting. I have to make time to start reading again.
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Thank you for this review. Just like Zezee, I only saw A Man Called Ove. Tom Hanks and the other actors did a good job.
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