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Beach Read by Emily Henry

155 reviews

fanboyriot's review against another edition

2.0

lighthearted slow-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

Read For:
Quick Read

Hurt/Comfort

Summer Read

Author x Author

Beach Read (much like the title says)

Honestly, I wasn't feeling this one as much. The characters were okay but at times really annoying. The relationship felt rushed and a bit too forced. After they admit their feelings it’s revealed they always felt that way since they were in college… it just kinda comes out of nowhere. Then there was the ending. I love romance books as much as the next person but that was way too cliché and just really annoying. I will say I did like some of the banter was pretty good and I did like the cozy summer vibes it had.

(First Person POV)

Spice: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Rep: Idk

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chelle22's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: N/A

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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ellacat11's review against another edition

4.75

emotional funny hopeful 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

Great book, good characters and development. Ending was slightly sudden and could have used a bit more detail. Overall, I liked it but not as much as Henry’s other two books.

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jaydub0221'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: Yes

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jenniee_reads's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny lighthearted medium-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

This is the second book I have read by Emily Henry and easily another 5 star read. I finished this book in one day (which is saying something because I am easily distracted by anything and everything).
There is something about her writing that just draws me in. There was happiness. There were tears. There was everything in between. The banter between January and Gus was exactly what I needed and I love how imperfect all of the characters were. They really felt like people I would come across in real life and not some made up characters. I can definitely feel this being a comfort read for me. Emily Henry can do no wrong and I can’t wait to read more from her!

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beckyyreadss's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I wanted to read this because my goal last year was discovering new authors and I read Book Lovers and I adored the book. Once I enjoy a book by an author, I will buy and read all their work. I become a hoarder. When I was reading Book Lover which was the first book I read of Emily Henry’s, everyone was saying it was much better than her previous work and I thought they were just on the hype train of Book Lovers, but . . . they were right – this book was missing something.

This book follows January. She is a hopeless romantic who likes narrating her life as if she’s the heroine in a blockbuster movie. Augustus is a serious literacy type who thinks that true love is a fairy-tale. January and Augustus are not going to get on. But they actually have more in common than you’d think. They are both broke, they’ve got crippling writer’s block and they need to write bestsellers before the end of the summer. So to make things interesting, they make a bet to see who can get their book published first. But there is a catch, they must swap genres. January must write a serious book with little romance and Augustus must write a heart-fluttering romance. The risk is that in telling each other’s stories, their worlds might be changed entirely.

I’ll start with what I liked, I liked the bet and the aspect of pushing themselves out of the comfort zone for a book when all else seems to have failed. I liked the idea of authors helping each other trying to get bestsellers, I liked the feeling that the community is rooting for you all. I ended up wanting to know more about the books they were writing than the “romance” part of this book. I want a friend like Shadi as well. She saved this book, the way she is so real but also so supportive and is just hilarious.

The way this book was written was all over the place. One minute it’s supposed to be all happy and a beach read that all chill and the next it’s all dark of January trying to clear out her dead dad’s house and deal with the information that her dad was cheating on her mum throughout the relationship and the woman that he cheated on her with is in the town she’s staying in. Then it got even darker with all the cult interviews. Then it would be back to being all happy and fluffy, I think it either needed to not be so dark or be very dark and bring the HEA at the end. Like I get everyone is not all fluffy and happy but the cult thing was a little bit too dark.

I didn’t vibe with our main characters - I think January was very insecure and just needed to get over what happened in college, the repeated thing of that she was a fairy princess was just driving me nuts. Gus isn’t Tony Stark and he didn’t to stop acting like it, I get it if the vibe he was going for was “I’m an asshole” but he was trying to go with that and then go it’s because I'm damaged. Like everyone is damaged and everyone is broken but the way you react is what is important. His reaction to January being a good writer was to be a dick to her and then sleep with her and then confuse her? I don’t get it. I just wanted a bit more chemistry and definitely more grovelling from Gus when he messed up again.

This book is highly rated and it’s an unpopular opinion of me that I didn’t like it but it was a chore to finish this book.

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elspethmigliore's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

this was such a sweet book. i love the main characters so much and i found them so much more relatable than other contemporary romance characters. i really enjoyed the setting of the story.

the only thing that was off-putting about the book was how slow it felt at times. it wasn’t the whole story, there were literally pages of miscommunication and frustration that i felt were not very important. also, gus’s speech at the end about naomi really frustrated me because he basically made it sound like he was ready to give up january for naomi. like even after everything they went through he dtill sounded ready to drop january completely. apart from that, he’s definitely one of my favorite book boyfriends.

would definitely reread again ✅

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edesia_16's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny lighthearted medium-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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loxeletters's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

For what it was trying to achieve - being a romance book - it was very good. I was mostly interested in the writing aspects, but I did still enjoy the actual romance. I liked the character development and felt their problems, even the ones related to miscommunication, were believable and interesting. I only noticed some minor things that were a bit too cheesy or spelt-out too one the nose for me, but overall, a very solid book. I even cried a few times (to be fair, I cry easily).

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ktv's review against another edition

4.5

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: Yes

I loved Julia Whelan as the narrator for this. She rly bought to life all of the characters. Her voice is also nice.
I liked the slow burn aspect and how the book centered around January and Gus’s problems. I thought it would be more grumpy x sunshine but I ended up liking it the way it was. I liked the second chance thing too.
-0.5 stars because the spicy scenes were significantly different than the ones in take a hint, Dani brown and it threw me off. Definitely a me problem, not an Emily Henry problem! The order u read books in matters, and I shoulda taken that into account before diving into this.

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