It took me a minute to really get into it but I think you have to understand Ove first to really appreciate him. Parvaneh was definitely annoyingly entitled at times too. 

I was expecting Ove to be kind of like the lead in The House In The Cerulean Sea but he was more like the lead character from The Holdovers, and this book overall had similarities with that. It showed the pain of loss and what that can do to a person. 

It had lots of heart warming moments too though! I loved the cat and his new friends. I felt bad about all the tragedy he experienced

and that he only lived til his mid 60s! I wanted them to give him longer to enjoy life and his “granddad” status but no😢

I also thought Swedish government was supposed to be pretty good but this depiction of it is having me doubt that. 

Overall a nice bittersweet story