 Hello everybody, Ian here. Welcome back to another book review. This one is for Bear Town by Frederick Bachman. And just to be right up front with you, let's see, Washington Square Press, Simon and Schuster, Atria Books, all of them sent me this book for review that did not color or change my review in any way. It's completely unbiased. I love this book. I read, what is it, a man named called Ove, whatever. My wife's in the background, I know what? Yeah, she just as surprised as I am. A man called Ove, I thought that was a melodramatic waste of my time to tell you the absolute truth. This one, I hated everybody in the book for the first probably 60 some odd pages. And let me let me show you. Back here, I have, I don't know if you guys can see it, but I have quotes from page three. I'm just going to read it. You don't have to zoom in. Page three, five, and then it jumps all the way to page 67 for quotes. The reason for that is because the book got really bad between page five and page 60. There were no quotable, nothing quotable. I hated everybody. I just wanted everybody to die. And then all of a sudden it clicked. And I understood what he was doing the entire time I was bored. He was introducing me to the entire town. You get, you got Kevin, you got Peter, you got Benji, you got Amat, you got his mother, you got Kira, you got all these people. Mia, you got everybody. And I'm leaving out a lot of point of views here. But all of a sudden I cared about every single person in here and every single person had their own branching storyline and everybody mattered. Carolina Kepness does this in her novels also, especially Hidden Bodies. I love that one just because she made the support characters just as strong as her main characters. In this one there really is no main character. You are going to hate the majority of the people that you read about. This is a book about a town fucking up. That's the best way I can put it. The entire town just goes, it's not a horror novel, it's literary fiction, but the entire town just goes crazy after one event. I don't want to tell you what that event is because I was, I wasn't surprised, I saw it coming. In fact when I asked my wife while I was reading, I said what, if I gave you this set of circumstances, what would you think happened next? And she said this, this, and then she got, she blanked on the third one, but those first two were right. So it is predictable, but by the time you get into the predictable side of the story, it's mind-blowingly good. I don't know how he did it. I'm not a big fan of the short chapters from multiple point of views, but he nailed it. I mean this is the best, I don't want to call it, it's omniscient point of view because there are points where he's not, it's almost like a god-like character watching everything happen. But no, not to say that there's a god-like character, but there is, there are parts where he's just talking about the town as a whole and not from one character's point of view. Anywho, I really enjoyed this one. I'm giving it five stars and I highly suggest everybody go out and get it. There's a sequel coming up and Atria, my connection there, is supposed to be sending me the sequel, so when I get it, I should be getting it before, I think before it comes out, I will let you guys know if that one's worth it. But until next time, I am Benny, you've been you, this has been another book review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye!