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Beach Read by Emily Henry

708 reviews

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

3.5

challenging emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Didn't shatter my world or anything but it was entertaining.

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asthepageturns_94's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective 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

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jls6283's review against another edition

4.75

emotional funny hopeful 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 can’t explain it, but there have been so many moments in Emily Henry’s books where I’ve thought “yes! I’ve felt that way and never knew how to express it.”

One of my favorite quotes from this book

“How could I trust my own feelings? People were complicated. They weren’t math problems. They were collections of feelings, and decisions, and dumb luck. The world was complicated too - not a beautifully hazy French film, but a disastrous, horrible mess bespeckled with brilliance and love and meaning.”

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zoeegrout's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I LOVED this book about as much as Funny Story, which is kind of an insane bar. It was such a sweet balance of chick lit and actual romcom which is so perfect!! I love that she ended up really coming to a sort of peace and mindfulness, it’s such a realistic and achievable standard absolutely obsessed. ALSO the chemistry in this book is simply off the charts. I REALLY rooted for January and Gus which is crazy bc I did not feel that way about some of her other mcs (on first reads anyway). Only complaints are Gus’s refusal to get better at communicating through problems and some of the sentence level stuff felt a little wonky at times but that’s just me being annoying. Emily Henry I love you

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naturalyaya's review against another edition

4.0

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

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erikabereading7's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful lighthearted 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

The title of this book is spot on because this is the PERFECT Beach Read. I devoured this in three days. Very well written, quippy dialogue, and all the troupey romance stuff done in the best way. Truly a great read! (And that dedication at the end? Come on! So good!)

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molly_kate's review against another edition

2.5

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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starrynighter's review against another edition

2.5

emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

this book is just very mid. i didn’t really care too much about the actual romance because they barely had any chemistry. essentially, they were more interesting as individuals than as a couple. i hoped they’d have a bit more of that rivals to lovers vibe but it cut the ‘rivals’ part pretty short. i liked some of their banter but it often turned too cringy for my taste. i also liked that it explored some darker themes which i didn’t expect from this book. overall it was cute but for a romance book the romance was simply a bit too lackluster.

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merhua's review against another edition

3.5

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

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halleyzacharias's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

It may be that I relate to Gus, it may be that I relate to January, but I absolutely loved this book.

I have cried in two books in my life (now three after this one), but this book hit close to home. It was a beautiful love story that went through ups and downs; they showed what it was like to learn to love and trust another person as well as yourself.

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I have a complicated relationship with my dad and the way January describes her view of her dad and how it changes throughout the novel is everything that I have felt at one time or another. This was such a healing book to have at this point in my life. Thank you, Emily Henry.

p.s. I read the UK ending first and then the US ending. Personally, I like the UK ending, although both of them have callbacks to their relationship seen throughout the book.

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