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Beach Read by Emily Henry

50 reviews

bg_oseman_fan's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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I enjoyed how meta this book was. in many ways it was a book about writer’s block and the process of writing a story. i like that the story didn’t sugarcoat on the one hand and also didn’t exaggerate the characters struggles too far so that they became unsympathetic. i wasn’t much until the way the sexual aspects of the protagonist’s relationship was described. I would have loved to have gotten more of a glimpse of what Gus’s writing had been like and how he would have written his romance novel than the more general look we got. i do plan on checking out more of the authors work in the future, though. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Physical abuse, Vomit, Car accident, Alcohol

lauracollins096's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, Vomit

Minor: Physical abuse, Alcohol

angelsfw's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful inspiring 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

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child abuse, Medical content, Alcohol

Minor: Child death, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury

hayley_nelson915's review against another edition

4.5

emotional 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: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse

joni_smits's review against another edition

5.0

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

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Child abuse, Vomit, Alcohol

Minor: Cursing, Fire/Fire injury

novella42'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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Content Warnings

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

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

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 against another edition

4.5

emotional funny lighthearted slow-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

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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, Chronic illness, Death, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Death of parent

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

fleur____'s review against another edition

4.25

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

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Content Warnings

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

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

jadyn_renee62's review against another edition

5.0

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: Complicated

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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, Chronic illness, Death, Infidelity, Violence, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Misogyny

filipa_maia's review against another edition

4.0

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

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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, Chronic illness, Infidelity, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment

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

Minor: Cursing, Car accident, Alcohol