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Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Infidelity, Grief, Car accident, Pregnancy
Minor: Child death, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Terminal illness, Dementia, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Loved the final parts with Alice’s parents story and choosing love.
Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Dementia, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol
Minor: Pregnancy
Moderate: Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol
Minor: Car accident
Moderate: Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent
Minor: Chronic illness, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Car accident, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Pregnancy, Gaslighting
Graphic: Sexual content, Grief
Moderate: Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment
Minor: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Terminal illness, Pregnancy
Graphic: Death, Misogyny, Car accident, Alcohol
Moderate: Body shaming, Confinement, Drug use, Dementia, Grief, Pregnancy, Classism
Minor: Mental illness, Miscarriage, Murder
Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Death of parent, Pregnancy
Minor: Adult/minor relationship
The story revolves around two writers who show up at the same place around the same time to conduct an interview. This client wants to write a book, a true story of her life in all the details for the world to finally read. The catch here is the client wants to conduct both interviews and at the end pick one person to write her book and tell her story.
The characters were very interesting, the two writers were polar opposites when compared to personality. Alice is the picture of sunshine, hopeful and full of determination to become a great writer. Hayden is more down to earth and logical on how he approaches his writing and picking clients for books. They are brought together to see who gets the honor of getting to write the unknown story of the just as equally unknown former socialite Margaret. They were a great foil for one another with Alice's positivity contrasting beautifully with Hayden's more cynical outlook on life. It was nice to see them bounce off of each other and slowly start to fall in love with each other. The other main character was Margaret was a woman of secrets and it was exciting to see her story unfold during each chapter!
The writing was different from her usual as this book was a more literary style rather than just a straight romance like she has written before. It was really nice to read something different from her, I feel like she would be great if she chose to write more books like this in a similar style.
Overall I really did enjoy this book and it was a fresh surprise from Emily Henry, it had really solid emotion and relatable characters to make this one of my new favorites of her series of novels!
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Grief
Moderate: Car accident, Pregnancy
Minor: Mental illness, Terminal illness
As soon as I started reading it with my eyes though, I really enjoyed the book again as I always (so far) did with Henry‘s books.
I really liked Margaret and the mystery surrounding Jodi, her mysterious housekeeper. Alice was a great narrator and main character, and her love story with Hayden was sweet and pretty convincing.
The history parts were partly my favorites, especially when I started reading the book and started to notice how the names were actually spelled after listening to them (I thought Gerald was spelled Darren ups) and all the plot twists wooing into them were just chefs kiss.
And just for fun, bc the public was comparing them: all in all I like Great Big Beautiful Life a lot more than The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, even though the plot twist in the end was pretty similar. Also The Last Great American Dynasty is my favorite Folklore song, so I was ecstatic when getting to know Henry wrote a book inspired by it and it definitely didn’t disappoint.
Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Blood, Dementia, Stalking, Pregnancy