Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Beach Read by Emily Henry

33 reviews

rosevity's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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 Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity, Cancer, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

Minor: Child death and Car accident

ashleycmms's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Cancer

nonfluorescent's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, and Alcohol

Minor: Fire/Fire injury and Child death

jessgordon_'s review against another edition

emotional 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? It's complicated

3.75

I did enjoy this book and I loved that it had much more depth than most romcoms, but

once they actually got together it felt like it was just a constant back and forth of either love on fire or not speaking at all, and it got old quick for me. I also kind of wish it wasn’t such a sticky perfect ending. I think it almost would have been full circle in a sad poetic way if Gus did try to make things work with his wife, just like January’s dad did with her mom

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child death, Death of parent, Infidelity, and Child abuse

Moderate: Alcohol

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

claragweny's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny 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

I love books that make me sit with my own sadness while also having me totally engrossed in the romance. I read a lot of romance and sometimes, after a while, I start to feel like Gus at the beginning of the book. Like love and happy endings are only possible in books. January and Gus feel like they could be real people who

fall in love

. Life can be messy and lovely at the same time and books that can show that duality without seeming unreal are gems to be shared. I don’t think I’ll stop sharing Beach Read for a while. 

Also, I listened to the audiobook version and I think the narrator did a wonderful job. Sometimes audiobook narrations can be really distracting from the story and kind of ruin a scene, chapter, or even the whole story. But if you’re like me and you like to feel totally enveloped by an audiobook I don’t think you’ll be disappointed by this one. Several times I found myself startled away from the story when the outside world got too loud and realized I’d been listening for hours. I still managed to finish Beach Read over 24 hours though so it’s safe to say the audiobook is pretty good. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Child death

thatsssorachael's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Perfection. The characters, the romance, the STEAM...I loved every single word of this book. It wasn't pure fluff, and it wasn't pure filth, but it had a dose of each ;) I thought the main conflicts were realistic, the characters relationship with the outside world realistic, and I just really liked it.

So, just read it. Believe me, it's so good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Child abuse, and Child death

anniefizzell's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-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

4.5

I adored this book. It may even have been a full five stars for me, but I’m trying to sit with books more before I give them that distinction hahaha. January and Gus were absolutely adorable and funny and relatable in the most gut-punching, tear-jerking ways. This one is a bit of an emotional sneak-attack! The way both Gus and January grow and learn to trust each other and learn to accept themselves is so beautiful and inspiring. I just loved them. Augustus Everett will forever be one of my favorite leading men. He was positively swoon-inducing at every turn, but also incredibly real and human in his struggles. And the BANTER between these two!! I audibly giggled several times throughout the book because of how FUN the dialogue was. So much to love about this book. I read it on the beach in Hawaii, and it really set the mood (even though it takes place on the shores of a lake and not the ocean, haha). Definitely recommend highly!!!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Death, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

Minor: Alcoholism, Child death, Suicide, and Vomit

There is a side plot where characters are researching a su1cide cult for a novel. They go to the site of the tragedy, and to visit people who escaped, to get their stories. There’s nothing too graphically horrible described, as far as my memory serves. But if that’s something you’re sensitive to, just be wary! :)

bi_n_large's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Physical abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Grief, Infidelity, Death, Child death, and Cursing

josiejthames's review

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? Yes

4.5

Beautifully written about grief and disappointment. Characters are well-developed and written. HOWEVER--DO NOT LISTEN out loud with other people because your cheeks will flush from the steam coming out of the speakers! This happened to me accidentally when I was separating laundry the other day and my husband walked in! All I could say was "OH MY!" 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Death of parent and Grief

Minor: Cancer, Child death, Child abuse, and Cursing