Book & Movie Review: A Man Called Ove (Otto)
For the longest time, ‘A Man Called Ove’ sat on my To-Be-Read Shelf on my Kindle as I read through Sanderson’s Cosmere novels for the past eighteen months or so without sparing a blink at the other novels. This was until I decided to take a break from Sanderson this month and read the other e-books gathering e-dust on my e-reader (Sorry, for being so frivolous with the e’s).
And that move was complimented by a trailer of a movie that came up on YouTube feed one fine day. A movie called ‘A Man Called Otto’. This suddenly reminded me of the Fredrick Backman book I had sitting on my Kindle and decided to finally give it a read. Watching a movie of a book-adaption before reading the book it is based on felt like a crime I had no intention to commit. So without clicking on the video to watch the trailer, I saved it to ‘Watch Later’ and grabbed my Kindle to read the book at once.
And boy, was it impressive. For those looking for a quick review, I gave this title a 5-Star review on GoodReads without thinking twice. It’s been a while since I read a 5-star book which is why I felt the need to write about this. We need to talk about this book, no matter how late (~11 years) I am to the party…
Let’s talk about the plot before we dive into what I liked and disliked in the book and finally the movie review:
