Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Beach Read by Emily Henry

37 reviews

joni_smits's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Grief, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

Moderate: Vomit, Child abuse, and Alcohol

Minor: Cursing and Fire/Fire injury

novella42's review

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Terminal illness, Death, Vomit, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Alcohol, and Cancer

Moderate: Excrement, Suicide, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, and Murder

Minor: Drug use

the characters research a suicide cult, see the ruins of the cult compound after arson, and interview survivors about indoctrination

kaitlynnnng's review

emotional funny lighthearted slow-paced

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

4.5

This is the first Emily Henry book I’ve ever read, and I’m kind of mad at myself for not reading it sooner. I borrowed a copy from the library, because I wasn’t sure if I’d like it that much, but I’m happy to say that I just ordered my own copy…and a copy of her other books, too.

I’ve only recently started reading non-fantasy romances, and I started feeling like maybe the genre wasn’t for me, but Beach Read changed my mind. While it maybe isn’t the most groundbreaking story out there, there wasn’t anything I didn’t like about it.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Cursing, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Vomit, and Alcohol

fleur____'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infidelity, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Cancer, and Medical content

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, and Vomit

jadyn_renee62's review

emotional funny 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

i love this book so much it has that romcom feeling that i just love. it has a lot of great characters and side characters, which you get to learn a lot about, so it makes it 10 times better. it makes you feel like you’re really there with them and friends with all of them.

i love the fact that he fell for her first and how she always thought he thought poorly of her but really he was basically in love with her the whole time and i think the timing that he told her was just perfect and it didn’t feel forced at all

 over all i loved this book it’s definitely one of my favs and i love her writing style

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Chronic illness, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Misogyny

filipa_maia's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad 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

4.0

This book was really good. And I say it like that because, once again, this is not my go-to genre. But, once again, was a suggestion from my monthly reading group and I decided to give it a chance.

This is not a typical romance in a sense that are some really dark and heavy topics represented: domestic abuse, a cult, death... the kind of themes that are not associated when you ear the genre romance.

I really enjoyed this book. I like how dark and mysterious Gus is and how fragile and hurt January feels. And I like the way both of them decide to give each other a chance (although, sometimes, January frustrated me a lot). The best part about this book is that it shows that two people with completely opposite visions of the world can find common ground.

I really liked this book and will look for more books by Emily Henry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Abandonment, Grief, Chronic illness, Infidelity, and Death of parent

Moderate: Death, Vomit, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Car accident, Alcohol, and Cursing

bri__'s review

dark funny lighthearted tense medium-paced

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

3.0

I didnt connect with the characters as much as I would have liked but it was still a cute romcom , definitely some dark moments tho. I also don't remember much content warnings so bare with me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Chronic illness, Vomit, Alcohol, Cursing, Sexual content, and Terminal illness

coles14_'s review

3.25

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Content Warnings

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

laurataylor's review

adventurous funny 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Cancer, Cursing, Death, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Genocide

chaitai00's review

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Violence, Grief, Infidelity, Cancer, and Death