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Beach Read by Emily Henry

887 reviews

liizabee's review against another edition

4.5

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Really really enjoyed this book! This is my first time reading Emily Henry & I understand the hype now.

Beach Read felt like a Sarah Dessen book but all grown up.

I like that it wasn't just a fluffy romance. She dived into heavier topics like death, grief, childhood trauma and abandonment issues. The cult storyline/subplot(?) was really interesting and I liked how it tied into

Gus's

story.

I'm happy we got actual details about the book January was writing instead of a vague sentence or two. It felt like I got to read 3 books (

Beach Read, Janie's book, and the cult interviews (Gus's book)

) in one and I absolutely loved it. I guess the changes in tone and setting was great for my ADHD brain. But it also didn't feel like too much was happening at once.

I enjoyed the slow-ish burn between January and

Gus

. Although this is a romance book, I genuinely wasn't sure if they'd end up together in the end.

At some point, I would have been happy to see her (literally) sailing off into the sunset all by herself.

I would have liked to see more sexually intimate scenes or at least make the existing ones a bit more explicit, but that's just me (a girly who grew up reading smutty fanfics 👀🤭).

I have daddy issues so some of this book wrecked me. Looking at you, chapter

!! I was bawling my eyes out, tears and snot rushing down my face and onto my ereader. But imma be real, that just made me love the book even more lol.

Though I read this book in summer, I didn't have the privilege of reading it on the beach, but I think it would be a perfect beach read. ☀️🏖📖💛 Can't wait for the movie!

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jdrz__'s review against another edition

3.75

adventurous emotional 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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sarabereading's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book became all I thought about for weeks.

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erinfine's review against another edition

3.75

emotional funny lighthearted 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: Yes

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risa_readss's review against another edition

5.0

emotional hopeful lighthearted 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

“If you think the story has a sad ending, it’s because it’s not over yet”

This bookkkkkk is the best romance I’ve read in a long time. January lost her dad and is staying in his old “beach house” trying to relearn who her dad was her whole life, loves romance, and wants so badly to believe in good in the world. Gus lives next door and is the opposite in every way. Even the types of books they write couldn’t be more different. But when they are forced to meet at a local book club meeting and challenge each other to write like the other, their worlds are flipped upside down in every way. This book was so good and I absolutely adored it.

her dad’s letters wrecked me in the best way!!

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inkerly's review against another edition

4.0

challenging funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This book was fully ‘Taylor Swift - Fearless Album’ coded and I’m not mad at it. The author is a Swiftie with a flair for white woman romance and her pen game shows it. She managed to bring a story that could’ve been a dull trope-y mess to life in a humorous and sweet way.

I’m not the target audience for a book like this so I can’t even lie and say I loved the book. I think people who like quirky girl-sad boy romances but for adults with real world problems will like this. What I will say is the story was great and I’m glad the characters got their HFN ending

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kittencaboodle's review against another edition

3.25

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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monkey251931's review against another edition

4.75

emotional funny hopeful reflective sad 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: Yes

Such a well paced story!
August(us) and January have such excellent and witty banter
A very slow burn, but the storyline was so entertaining that I was distracted! Which, if you know me at all, is hard to do.
Definitely lots of miscommunication
The character development was crucial and so well done
I love how the characters were able to receive closure

Very well told and well paced story!

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