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Stora vackra liv by Emily Henry

21 reviews

packiliveshere's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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corriescorner's review against another edition

4.25

emotional funny 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

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feralandfictional's review against another edition

5.0

This is the mix of twisty mystery and romance that my heart has been CRAVING. Even though I saw the first twist coming, the second twist snuck up on me so hard I had to stop reading to take a breather before continuing. My first 5 star read this year was The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year (Ally Carter) and this gave me the same feeling (without being a seasonal read), though it’s less Nancy Drew forward. Conflicts felt mostly reasonable (I haven’t felt like most romance book conflicts have been reasonable in my more recent reads lately so that says a lot) and though it left me wanting to read more about the characters to be able to live in this world a bit longer, it also left the story feeling like it had a sufficient and thoughtful end tied up with a bow. I’d definitely recommend it.

The only thing I think could’ve been improved was the

subplot of Theo. He had no impact on the story and every scene with him on the sidelines felt like a throwaway scene. It felt like he was supposed to be more involved but the editor removed that part and everyone forgot to make him take sense again…

but since that didn’t take away from the story for me, I won’t sing the rating. Still STUNNING.

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carolinasilva_18's review against another edition

4.75

emotional funny inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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jeaniemcgarvey's review against another edition

3.25

emotional lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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esophagus18's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional inspiring fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

this might be my new favorite emily henry book! i loved the seven husbands of evelyn hugo vibe of it, and i loved all the characters

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merlesstorys's review against another edition

4.5

emotional inspiring lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I feel a lot of feelings about this book. For once, I read it in German but for most of the book, I listened to the audiobook and that one I really disliked. It felt really slow and dragged a lot without any markings when a new chapter or a history part began.

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.

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