In book 1, i remember reading that the guitarist or whatever will one day look up at a billboard and see benji and think of their time. Im just glad to be done with this and i truly hope that there is no book 3 in any type of work in any freaking universe.Īlso, that synopsis is a bit of a lie because i will tell you this!: its not Benji who dies. people who claim to be all about loyalty change their minds the instant shit doesn't go their way. These two dumb towns fighting each other over hockey and adults turning against each other because of a dirty politician.Ī kid dies, they almost literally roast a human, kids show their dicks to a woman because grown ass adult men are bitter about who's in their team now. Kids beating the fuck out of each other, outing each other, others being the adults in every situation instead of the damn adults! which speaking of.OMG the turn of events! I hated the violent, hurtful turn this book took. I, just like book 1, also did not like this story. but of course none of this could've happened until it was set up that way which is what book 1 was about so i guess. I think this is what i thought book 1 would have been about. i hope it doesn't.)īut in this book i definitely understand that its not even about the game anymore but just about how people can go too far for the sake of their pride. which means that i also don't understand if the love of the game truly goes that far. I don't watch hockey so i don't understand it. I just want to make this quick and get it over with because ive been stalling and i have other shit to get to. By the time the last game is finally played, a resident of Beartown will be dead, and the people of both towns will be forced to wonder if, after all they’ve been through, the game they love can ever return to something simple and innocent. But bringing this team together proves to be a challenge as old bonds are broken, new ones are formed, and the enmity with Hed grows more and more acute.Īs the big match approaches, the not-so-innocent pranks and incidents between the communities pile up and their mutual contempt grows deeper. Soon a new team starts to take shape around Amat, the fastest player you’ll ever see Benji, the intense lone wolf and Vidar, a born-to-be-bad troublemaker. Amidst the mounting tension between the two rivals, a surprising newcomer is handpicked to be Beartown’s new hockey coach. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in Hed, take in that fact.

Pg 83Īfter everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow when they hear that their beloved local hockey team will soon be disbanded. Even if that's the way its supposed to be.

Life is so damn, damn, damn tough sometimes that it's almost unbearable.

Us against them fredrik backman