Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Beach Read by Emily Henry

60 reviews

stardustandrockets's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Sexual content, and Infidelity

Minor: Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Violence, Vomit, Injury/Injury detail, Alcohol, Cancer, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Car accident, Cursing, and Suicide

bookiewithacookie's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Funny and emosh and loveable x 10 million

I'd heard a lot about Beach Read from friends and fellow bookstagrammers, so went into it with medium-high expectations. It delivered in several different ways, including:

- Laugh out loud moments
- A weird yet surprisingly emotional storyline, armed with local cults and emotional familial betrayal
- A good level of spice
- Loveable characters that you'll still think about years later

For me, January was definitely a more relatable and enjoyable character to get to know. Gus had his moments, and I really enjoyed the ending - but this book very much felt like an exploration into January's mind and grief more than your typical romance book.

I'd definitely recommend, and will no doubt read again one summer in the future!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Terminal illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

Minor: Abandonment

nerdybookshelff's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Chronic illness, Cancer, Grief, Physical abuse, and Infidelity

fern_gulley's review

dark emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Religious bigotry, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Suicide, Infidelity, and Cancer

I would add a moderate content warning for cults/religious trauma if that was an option.

pengal's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Emotional abuse

annaem's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Infidelity

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

Minor: Suicide

stella_mia's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

This book was a wonderful start to my 2022 year in reading. It's angst and trauma but in a way that is digestable in a romance novel. I never thought a book about writing books would or could be that interesting but it captured my whole hearted attention, i mean i even skipped class to finish the book for crying out loud. Its incredibly written and the characters aren't perfect, which to me makes them perfect. With the love (and smut) it was just a fun read and made me miss my summers by the beach. And all I could say is Augustus and January have both become my most perfect favorite people. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Vomit

Not a gore or traumatic book, but if you have lost a parent or experienced trauma from one be aware it is mentioned in the book. As well as cult victims are also mentioned and speak within the book. Not in a graphic way though. There is a scene where January does through up but again not super graphic.

patslibrary's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Chronic illness, and Infidelity

mandaraffe's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Sexual content, Infidelity, Cancer, Alcohol, and Death

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Child death, and Alcoholism

the_write_to_cry's review against another edition

emotional lighthearted reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I really liked this book at first. I'd been in a reading slump and heard a lot of praise for this book so I picked it up, thinking it would be a fast, light-hearted book. It didn't exactly turn out that way, but I usually like to go into novels without knowing where they're going. 

To me, this book felt very...full. About 75-80% in, I kept wondering when it was going to end. I would've liked things to happen concurrently rather than one after another because the momentum just died suddenly in the last third. Also I really wished the book hadn't been so myopic by focusing on two male characters: the love interest and the deceased father. I think the women/women relationships were lacking, and in general the side characters weren't fleshed out as much. They remained pretty steadily in the background. 

Overall not a terrible read, but the ending left me feeling a bit lukewarm. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Abandonment, Alcohol, Cancer, Death of parent, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Minor: Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Vomit