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Graphic: Cancer, Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol
Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Vomit
Minor: Cursing, Physical abuse, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Blood, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Grief
Minor: Child death, Murder
Minor: Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Physical abuse, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol
But still, I hate a miscommunication/lack of communication, so that annoyed me a bit at the end.
Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent
Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Infidelity
Graphic: Cancer, Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol
Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Murder
Minor: Child abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Death of parent
Emily Henry is hit or miss for me, and this one was a big miss. The author admits she had writer's block at the time she wrote it and that she decided to write a book about writer's block. No wonder the book fizzled for me. That's like me sitting at work and deciding to write a report about why I don't know how to write the report.
Rounding up to 2 (yeah, that's how little I liked it - not even a full two stars).
Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment
That being said, it's always a little impressive when an author manages to write writers while avoiding banality and too much self-indulgence. I think Emily Henry achieves as much with this book, at least more so than Book Lovers, which I read first. It's about writers, but it's also about family, grief, secrets, pining, and the ugly parts of love. This novel wasn't as gratifying as other romance novels, not because it's less romantic or the ending is less happy, but because there are parts of it that were sad and, like in life, could not be resolved.
Graphic: Infidelity, Death of parent
Moderate: Child abuse, Sexual content, Vomit
Minor: Religious bigotry, Murder, Fire/Fire injury
Graphic: Cancer, Sexual content, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol
Moderate: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Infidelity
Moderate: Cancer, Emotional abuse, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol
Minor: Child abuse, Drug use, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment