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Beach Read by Emily Henry

168 reviews

gabbylandis's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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: Complicated

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This book was such a beautiful commentary on love, family, grief, loss, and growing into your career. I loved this book. Emily Henry’s insights on personal growth are simply inspiring and had me hooked. I also loved the journey of the writing process and how Janie and Gus’s writing coincided with the plot of the book. The ending was satisfying. 0.5 off for extremely misplaced sex scenes (who has a breakdown and then gets railed?!) and some… interesting… verb choices for touching someone else nicely (really? scraping???) but overall a great novel. Henry should be proud of herself. This is one I would return to again after sitting on it for a little.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol

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

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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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Mental illness, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Alcohol

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Suicide, Vomit, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury

aacinonyx's review against another edition

2.5

hopeful slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Physical abuse

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

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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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol

Minor: Sexism, Suicide, Vomit

Description of cult, disturbing stories/descriptions of cult-related violence

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

stewartj0421'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: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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kicking my feet and giggling I could have used another 200 pages of this. I do wish we had gotten a bit more depth about Gus’s background. Otherwise, I loved everything about this!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse

angievansprang's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious 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

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I love love loved the lake house setting of this story. While I don’t typically reach for romances, this was a fun read. I appreciated that there were still some stakes and it wasn’t all “fluff”, and that the author tackled some heavier topics. Probably my favorite part of this book was the side-plot relationship between our FMC, January, and her best friend, Shadi. So many scenes between those two are a wonderful ode to best friendship and reminded me very much of relationships in my own life.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Infidelity, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Child abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content

Minor: Vomit, Abandonment, Alcohol

jennalea_'s review against another edition

4.0

funny 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

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Beach Read for the beach 🏝️ (or pool in my case) such an easy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️’s for the second Emily Henry book I’ve picked up! She honestly never misses - plot littered with romance tropes in the best way and characters you root for the entire way through, all tied up with that small town vibe and a cast of supporting characters you can’t help but fall in love with too. Pete and Maggie 🥺 (iykyk!) love love loved this book 🩷

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Physical abuse, Vomit

Moderate: Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury

hayleythegoose's review against another edition

5.0

challenging emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Physical abuse, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Alcohol