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Verliebt in deine schönsten Seiten by Emily Henry

179 reviews

kcarney86's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Abandonment

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

marylinaris's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

4.0

It’s easy to like this book, the writing is beautiful, January is an interesting protagonist, Gus plays his part as the love interest very well and the story stays interesting and emotional throughout! 

What I’m a little ehh about was Gus’ backstory. January’s backstory is quite heavy on it’s own - slightly too heavy for a book I’ve been frequently been told was a fun romp-y vacation romance - but his backstory? Yeah, that one came very much unexpected and I wasn’t really a fan of the pay off that plot gave us. I probably would’ve liked that part more if Augustus had POV chapters and we wouldn’t have gotten the whole thing solely through January’s eyes. Also … the sex scene that resulted out of exploring his backstory?? I was very hyperaware where they were doing it and for that alone it ranks high in the worst sex scenes I’ve ever read. 

What his book did weirdly, for me, was the little amount of time it spend on the vacation/beach part, the title promises and I would’ve expected a lot more discussions about their respective genres or even shallow examination of the genre conventions. 

I overall am - still - unsure about the ending. It felt very realistic and grounded in regards to the way the

father’s cheating plot

and the romance were wrapped up, but idk … maybe I need a little unrealistic magic in my romance? 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Vomit

marieos's review against another edition

emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

lucielockettreads's review against another edition

dark emotional funny 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? It's complicated

5.0

Emily Henry just knows how to write banter without it sounding really cringe. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Alcohol

Minor: Misogyny, Torture, and Vomit

gabbygarcia's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Fun book! The audiobook narration is great, highly recommend it. My largest complaint with the structure of the story is that there seemed to be both too much and not enough of the plot line outside of the romance—

I wanted to care more about the book-research plot line but there just wasn’t enough of it to keep me interested; it didn’t feel connected enough to the rest of the story for its placement to make sense.

There were definitely more than a few lines that had me rolling my eyes, but overall, the dialogue was funny and captivating. Fun summer read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer and Infidelity

Minor: Child death, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

dalmavatai's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful 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

4.5

I'm convinced that Emily Henry can do no wrong. While I didn't love this quite as much as Book Lovers and didn't find January and Gus as great of characters as Nora and Charlie, I still loved this book. I love how Emily Henry makes her MC & LI go through a lot of shit & have a lot of trauma in their past, but then they process & address it together and help each other heal, it's the most beautiful shit ever 😭 I also enjoy the author's meta writing style where she writes about books and writing and being an author, and the things her characters write in their books are also happening in the actual book that we're reading! In this book, I wanted just a bit more of January and Gus and perhaps a bit less of the other elements going on, but I did really appreciate January's whole process of grieving her dad but also being mad at him for what he did, such a complex but beautiful and beautifully human process! So again, not quite Book Lovers but still probably among my favorite books of the year. I am simply obsessed with Emily Henry's writing style and plotting and the way in which she makes two broken characters come together and make each other slightly less broken. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Suicide

isabella21's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful relaxing slow-paced

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

4.75

The characters are fleshed out, the romance is good (they actually have chemistry), I didn’t leave the book with unanswered questions (of what I can think of at least. 
I read the uk version, but I would be very interested in reading the us one, as this is a book I could very much imagine myself rereading.
I’ve read this in the summer, and even though the book is taking place in the summer I think it would be a good read any time of the year. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Suicide, Vomit, and Fire/Fire injury

anielabooks's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

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

5.0

This was a wonderful book. I am not surprised by that considering that I’ve read Emily Henry’s books before. The only disappointing part was that I expected to cry and didn’t. That definitely doesn’t take away from how much I loved the romance between the main characters. I think the book was also extremely funny at times. January and Gus’s banter was perfection, absolutely my favorite part. I also really appreciated how we got to see their books unfolded at the end. 100% would recommend this book for summer.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity and Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Sexual content, Vomit, and Grief

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

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: Sexual content and Death of parent

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

Minor: Child death and Car accident

faitherslibrary's review against another edition

adventurous emotional lighthearted reflective fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cancer, Physical abuse, Death of parent, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Car accident