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My biggest qualm was Hayden just letting her leave at the end? It didn’t make sense that he would just let her go with barely a fight. I would have also liked a little more from the ending after they reconciled, stuffed into like 3 pages felt very rushed.
Graphic: Death, Car accident
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Confinement, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Death, Grief, Car accident
Minor: Mental illness, Death of parent
Graphic: Sexism, Sexual content, Grief
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Car accident
Graphic: Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent
Moderate: Body shaming, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Abandonment
Minor: Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Stalking, Gaslighting
In other Emily Henry’s books, the central plot IS the love story, and the subplots are about work or friendships, or family. In this story, the actual romance felt more like a subplot to me. It wasn’t Hayden and Alice’s story. It was Margaret’s (the lying old lady). The two storylines felt like they were competing for page time and the flip flopping pace wasn’t great. It felt like two separate books mashed together.
I did love the storytelling of Margaret’s life when it got to the interesting parts, but I wasn’t a fan of her “telling her story” but not being fully truthful and wasting these journalists time. Not cool, Peggy. Not cool.
I actually didn’t like Margaret in the end. She sucks. The manipulative old wench. She was quite selfish in her endeavours and I don’t know how they forgave her and wrote her story for her anyways. Kind of wish they touched on that redemption arc a little more rather than just stating it happened.
Happy that Alice and Hayden got a happy ending though! Probs wouldn’t name my baby after an aunt I never knew that was an ex-cult member, but whatevs, it’s their baby! Good for them!
No matter what, I’ll always love and treasure the beauty that is Emily Henry’s writing. She could write a refrigerator manual and I’d read it.
Moderate: Confinement, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Alcohol
Moderate: Death
Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Grief, Car accident
Minor: Pregnancy
Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Grief, Car accident
Minor: Emotional abuse, Dementia, Pregnancy