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Brothers Lionheart - Astrid Lindgren
Title: Brothers LionheartAuthor: Astrid Lindgren
Genre: Childrens
Rating: 1.5/5
# pages: 228
Date read: August 2024
The story of the two brothers, Jonatan and Karl Lionheart as they go on exciting adventures in Nangijala - "the country on the other side of the stars".
I really, really don't get how this is marketed as a children's book. It should come with a ton of trigger warnings - for violence, death, murder, suicide.
As a rule, I love Astrid Lindgren's books, but this is the exception that proves the rule. I read it as a teen, and remember not liking it much, but didn't remember much of the book at all, so when I recently finished another book that reminded me of it, I figured I'd give it another shot, and see if it really was as terrible as I seemed to remember.
Reader - it was worse.
Just an all-around unpleasant book, and I really have NO idea what kind of point Astrid Lindgren was trying to make. And the worst thing is - it would have been SO easy to improve. Change a few details in the last chapter, and voila! You'd have a very sweet fantasy novel instead.
But no - she had to go the murder-suicide route. I don't get it at all.