Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Beach Read by Emily Henry

15 reviews

celery's review against another edition

4.5

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Vomit, Grief, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Injury/Injury detail

chronic_listener's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Murder

noellegrace8's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Sexual content

Moderate: Cancer, Infidelity, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol

Minor: Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Gaslighting, Abandonment

geoalice23's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

Moderate: Addiction, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcohol

supermormongirl's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious relaxing sad tense 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: Death, Grief

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicide, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder

laedyred's review against another edition

2.5

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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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Cute moments, but Gus just doesn't sit well with me. He's a playboy with no redeeming qualities other than a sense of humor. Why would you want someone who acts like women are objects? He treats January badly several times, as seen when

he takes a full day to consider whether to leave her for his ex-wife. He ignores January, doesn't consider her feelings, and has the audacity to feel like he has a right to "decide if she's worth it".

  In my eyes, he's not a good man. It ruined his character for me, I didn't want them to be together, I wanted her to tell him to fuck off after his final "decision". The story seemed cookie-cutter to me after reading Henry's other works. I know this was her first novel, but it to closely followed the standard formula. It felt cheap when I compared it to Book Lovers or People We Meet on Vacation. I add half a star for January's character, who is relatable while still having her own personality. She is a good female lead, although not groundbreaking. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Misogyny

saeruh's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny reflective sad

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   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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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Infidelity, Misogyny, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Car accident

joeyp's review against another edition

5.0

emotional lighthearted reflective slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Grief

Minor: Misogyny

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

urmominmybed69's review against another edition

3.5

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective 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, Infidelity, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Addiction, Cursing

Minor: Alcoholism, Misogyny