Reviews with content warning for Child abuse - Beach Read

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Beach Read by Emily Henry

708 reviews

gtures's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad slow-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

"Just one more thing" he said soberly. "What?" "Promise not to fall in love with me."

This book! read it while commuting to and from work and let me tell you... This was such a difficult book to put down. It was amazing and unexpected and beautiful. Made me audible gasp and scream and cry.😭

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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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michelle_lynn_20's review against another edition

3.0

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I despised Happy Place, I adored Funny Story, and Beach Read landed solidly in the middle. It started out as a strong page-turner, but I grew gradually frustrated and ultimately was fully checked out by the end. The sunshine main character had strong "pick me" energy, and I was uncomfortable with her unwisely starting a new relationship while deep in grief (speaking from experience). I found the grumpy love interest compelling but didn't buy how quickly and completely he fell for our narrator. The quick shifts from grief to lust were off - putting.

My hopeful theory that the shithole dad would turn out to have had legitimate explanations -- it just be a misunderstanding! -- proved false. I wanted to throw the book into the sea when it ended with an unwarranted proposal.

Overall a strong premise with moments of great banter that ultimately was underdeveloped and so fell flat.

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b_bebop's review against another edition

4.5

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

I love how the background of the characters unfolded and the build up to the main characters’ true feelings for one another

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aproudmc13's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I think the book is well written. It is an interesting premise and the characters were endearing. I think my only qualm with this book is that it felt like January kept repeating the same thing when Gus pushed her away.

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_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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lovisareads's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is the third emily henry book I’ve read and it did not disappoint, probably my favorite one so far!!!

All the characters were well developed in my opinion and fun to read about :) I liked how it wasn’t all about the romance but also dealt with themes like grief, and mourning someone you loved while also questioning how well you actually knew that person.

Also, I’m a bit sad that january’s book doesn’t exist in real life because I was invested!!

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