I guess you must be confused again but don’t! Even though the book looks like a puzzle, all the pieces find their right place and so many twists that you may not foresee confuse you more but at the end you realize you read something so spectacular make you question your morals, your judgments, beliefs, the way you look at the life and test your decency. Is this about stock markets, mortgages, banking system and destroying effects of capitalism makes rich people richer and makes you poor… yes, you may fill the blanks…! YES! Is this book about suicide attempts on the bridge? YES! What a minute! If the robbery is unsuccessful, how the thief managed to take hostages? And how many hostages he has? 8 hostages! So what this book is about? Bunch of idiot people? YESĪn unsuccessful bank robbery attempt and hostage situation? YES.

His sarcastic, witty and dark sense of humor reminded me of Guy Ritchie’s crime/dark comedy scripts (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch) and his quirky, sarcastic, awkward characters slowly warms your heart and entertains the hell of you! As soon as I finish it, I turned back and reread the police interrogation parts of the book and I laughed over and over!!! How a book makes laugh so hard and then makes you cry like a baby and also hooks you up from its riveting, exciting chapters and at some parts you want to stop, taking a deep breath to absorb what you read, aching for characters, feeling their pain but you’re also laughing their ridiculousness! This book captivates your heart, brain and your soul at the same time and plays with your emotional balance, juggling between different genres and you just want to clap the author and take a bow for his remarkable, original, unique work. It was tragic, tear jerker, but it was also funny, enjoyable, witty! It was action packed, riveting, heart throbbing but it was also thought-provoking, complex, dazzling, deceptive, educational and heartfelt. Yes, it shook me so hard but it also entertained the hell of me. I think my vocabulary is so limited to express how this book made me feel. This is one of my favorite, highly recommended fiction novels of 2020! And fingers crossed, I hope Netflix buys this limited series so we may enjoy them!

Good news: This amazing is about to be adapted in Swedish series. But this one still has special place in my heart! It’s still my favorite fiction reads of the year! This is my goodreads 2020 choice as best fiction novel! It came at the second place and I adored “ Midnight Library” too. Don’t miss tv series adaptation of Anxious People on Netflix! My thoughts: the book is still so much better!

Anxious people audio book