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Mera vego : mat för hela familjen (2014) — Forfatter — 19 eksemplarer
Allt jag säger är sant (2012) 7 eksemplarer
Inuti huvudet är jag kul (2018) 6 eksemplarer
Djupa Ro (2015) 5 eksemplarer
Fula tjejer : en bok (2020) 4 eksemplarer
Viggo och rädslolistan (Viggos värld #1) (2018) — Forfatter — 3 eksemplarer
Samtidigt i min låtsasvärld (2018) — Forfatter — 2 eksemplarer
Jobbiga tjejer (2021) 2 eksemplarer
Bilderboksretro 50-tal (2011) 1 eksemplar
Bilderboksretro 70-tal (2012) 1 eksemplar
Ivar träffar en Stegosaurus (2014) — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Eddie och julen (2012) — Forfatter — 1 eksemplar
Julmysteriet 1 eksemplar

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This is probably the most accurate depiction of being 18 I've ever read, and I don't mean that in a "being 18 was great and this made me wanna go back", I mean that in the sense that "being 18 was one of the worst times in my life and this is so spot on but it also includes all the good stuff and the dreaming and wanting to get started on life"-shit.

I just ... recognize so much of myself in Hanna, the main character? Not so much Jens, the 24 year old with a daughter, but I guess a little bit there too (being closer to him in age). But in Hanna I see so much of myself as an 18/19 year old about to finish high school: wanting to move abroad and spend time away from everyone, being so ridiculously in love and overthinking everything, crashing completely and being miserable when the other person doesn't love you back, desperately doing anything to get their attention, getting annoyed with your friends for no reason at all and pushing them away because you don't know how to break up with friends you've outgrown, et c. This is just ... exactly how it was. THe good and the bad.

That said, you couldn't pay me to go back and be 18 again. I'd much rather read about it than live it.

I am going to pretend the epilogue didn't happen. I didn't dislike it or anything, I just feel I prefered the ending without it. I will consider it an optional epilogue, maybe really good fanfiction, but not more than that.
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upontheforemostship | Feb 22, 2023 |
Okay, I liked this book, but ... I don't know, why do so many books have the wrong main character? Do I have that same problem in my own writing? I hope not.

It's just ... it's in first person and we don't find out the MCs name until page three, but on page two it's clear they're in love with a girl and I was like oh ... mm ... g ... lesbians!? But then it turned it was a dude and I was disappointed and ofc it was all about his straight crush, and obviously also about the death of his friend.

And then the other male MC comes out as gay at the end of the book and of course it's soooo hard for the straight MC. He's been lied to! It will take getting used to! But it won't change anything!! At least after he's gone through all their interactions over the last year and decided there was nothing gay about it.

WHY!?!?!?!?! WHYYYYYY FUCKING WHYYYYY!!?!?!?!?!?!?!? I'm assuming the author is straight because jfc it's such a straight thing to do, taking someone's coming out story and turning it into an issue for the STRAIGHT person. I would have liked it much better if it had been from the gay guy's perspective: coming home, trying to handle your friend's death as well as your sexuality and coming out ... but, no, let's go for a straight romance. And fine, maybe it's good if a straight person doesn't write about the struggles of coming out, but ... maybe you shouldn't make it all about how hard it is on the straight friend. Please, please, please don't do that. Don't make it out to be normal or okay to react like that when your friend comes out to you. You don't need time to process it. You don't need time to adjust. You just need to be fucking happy for your friend and not make it about yourself for five minutes.

But oookaaay, other than that I guess I liked it.
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upontheforemostship | Feb 22, 2023 |
I don't knoooooooooooooooooow how I felt about this one.

Okay, I hated it at first, because it just goes on and on and on about how much the MC wanted to pee and it was disgusting. Then she just annooooyed me so much with her "I know so much more than everyone else and I've got it aaaall figured out"

But then I remembered what it was like to be sixteen, and yeah, that was pretty much how it was. And that made me like it a bit more, even though some things were too unrealistic for me. She got EVERYTHING she wanted more or less without trying, the job, the boyfriend ... sure, it wasn't always exactly what she dreamed of, but come on.

Also hated how the guy was portrayed like this great dude. He was waaaay too old for her and that pissed me off as well. Fucking creep.
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upontheforemostship | Feb 22, 2023 |
So, Ester and Johan are BFFs. Ester is in love with this cute rocker guy who is in a band, and Johan is in love with Ester. He has been for the past four years, but she's been friendzoning him. Unknowingly, of course, he hasn't told her.

And this where it could've gone straight to hell. Luckily, Johan has other problems going on in his life, suspecting that his dad is cheating on his mom and that his parents are probably gonna get a divorce. His feelings for Ester are nothing compared to that.

I liked this book, it had me sold ... right until the ending. It's oh so predictable, and me saying that is probably enough for me to spoil the ending for you. Sorry. But it could've been so much better, we could've gotten something about girls and boys being friends and nothing more, but noooooo, we never get that, do we? Feelings ALWAYS have to get involved.

(Maybe I should state here that I am personally bothered by this since one of my closest friends since I was a kid has been a boy. His name also happens to be named Johan and he fits the physical description of the character in the book a little too much. That put me off any romantic feeling to the dude from page one, more or less.)

It's a good book. I related to the main character in that "oh gods I don't ever wanna be a teen again" kind of way that I love to relate to YA protagonists, the writing was solid and apart from the ending I thought it was pretty realistic. Sadly, the ending was predictable and not what I wanted, so it's only three stars from me. Will pick up the author's latest book though.
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upontheforemostship | 2 andre anmeldelser | Feb 22, 2023 |

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