Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Beach Read by Emily Henry

101 reviews

asthepageturns_94's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol

courtnoodles's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol

Moderate: Cursing, Infidelity

Minor: Fire/Fire injury

erikaraz's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Terminal illness, Torture, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol

jbaymowmow's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Sexism, Terminal illness, Death of parent

thenecromancer's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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While the writing is classic Emily Henry and I resonated with the writer's block, I felt like there was actually too much backstory/plot and not enough romance, which surprised me because Emily is usually SPOT on in her romances.

I felt like they were already super attracted to each other from the beginning and I didn't really get to see the romance build, and him being married prior just felt like an unnecessary plot point.

However, it was still enjoyable.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Terminal illness

tsukidoki's review against another edition

3.0

emotional funny 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

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a lot could've been solved by communicating 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity, Terminal illness, Death of parent

jmdressel's review against another edition

3.0

emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

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an easy-to-follow story! i used this as a background book while working/cleaning/etc. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Death of parent

Minor: Physical abuse, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury

meganreyann's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Terminal illness, Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content, Vomit, Alcohol

Minor: Pregnancy

strawberrykiwisnapple's review against another edition

3.0

emotional funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I thought the story was pretty good, but the writing was pretty average. I wanted to read this book because of a quote I saw from the book, and that's kind of what the book is like: A lot of decent writing strung together by a few really good pieces of writing. Along with that I feel like the book lacked some emotional depth despite the fact that it was intended to be emotional. I liked the characters, but I never truly got wrapped into them like with other stories. I kept reading because the plot was so good, but I felt no strong emotional connections to these characters like I have with other books. There are times I thought the book was going in that direction, but they never really made it there. I definitely think this book is really good for the right person, but it just didn't appeal to the storylines I usually look for when picking my next book. The characters were still pretty cute together though.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Alcohol

Minor: Vomit

This book also mentions stuff to do with cults from time to time

_thebookishintrovert_'s review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Infidelity, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol

Moderate: Vomit