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Beach Read by Emily Henry

713 reviews

fiolud's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional hopeful inspiring sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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caseythereader's review against another edition

4.75

emotional funny hopeful 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: Yes

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bookishplantmom's review against another edition

4.0

emotional 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

This was an achingly beautiful story. I like this author’s style of storytelling. Her emphasis on individual development and growth makes the love story (stories) in the novel so much more poignant. I also really appreciated the writers note at the end of the book.

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fanny_brtl's review against another edition

3.75

emotional funny lighthearted relaxing slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A sweet romance to end summer :)
I really enjoyed reading about January and Gus (even if I can't stand their names), though I preferred the MC of Book Lovers (I found January lacked depth and personality sometimes).

I like how Emily Henry writes about love and how she describes what her characters are feeling. I love her humor and how January & Gus kept teasing each other, building a relationship around inside jokes and rivalry.
My only regret was that the book was slow and flat sometimes, it could have been shorter in my opinion. I still don't understand why the Sonya plot wasn't explored more in the book and not just in the end, I don't want to spoil anything but some subplots were left behind, explaining why my rating did not reach 4 stars.

Some of my fav lines w/o context :

"Doesn't it bother you? Having to live in someone else's tragedy?"

"I was on a beautiful beach, in a beautiful place, and I was alone. Worse, I wasn't sure I'd ever stop being alone again. I wanted my mom, and I missed my lying dad"

"'January", he whispered through the dark, like an incantation, like a prayer.

"The thought of never being with him again sent a new ache pinballing through my body, hitting every part of me he'd studied with his eyes and mouth and hands."

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saeruh's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny reflective sad

This book was made for the girlies with dead dads. Such beautiful writing. I loved this book and yet at times I absolutely hated it because I understood the main character, January, so well. Had me sobbing in the middle of a work day so be prepared that while this is a romance novel and deals with two people falling in love, it also deals heavily with grief, abusive situations and the trauma that leaves, how good people end up in bad situations, and the simple factors of life and emotions. This book can be represented well musically by phoebe bridgers’ album Punisher and specifically the song “Kyoto” off of it.
My biggest problems were that I felt like January was never really described so I never knew how to picture her in my head and also Gus and his continual closed-off-ness made me annoyed at him during parts. But any book that makes me cry like this deserves 5 stars.

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