Reviews tagging 'Fire/Fire injury'

Beach Read by Emily Henry

234 reviews

chronicallyedu's review against another edition

4.25

emotional lighthearted 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

Moderate: Cancer, Infidelity, Death of parent

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

kacd's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted 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: Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Infidelity

Minor: Vomit, Fire/Fire injury

shiradfrankel's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging emotional 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

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Sexism, Sexual content, Torture, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol

amutschler's review against another edition

5.0

funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Abandonment

Minor: Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

alexxmichelle's review against another edition

5.0

hopeful lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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Super fun brain off book that still manages to say something important. Highly recommend! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol

Minor: Vomit

fjordlock's review against another edition

1.5

emotional funny medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Yeesh. I was excited to see what the hype was about for Emily Henry. This is probably the worst start for me.

I found January as a protagonist to be insufferable and unrootable. I understand her dad dying and his betrayal was the domino that caused her life to spiral and leave her in a very fraught emotional state. Still, she makes assumptions out of everyone, from Gus to Sonya to her mom to her dad.

This book is simply “misunderstanding the book” because January cannot communicate or listen to anyone!

As a romance, it was okay on the surface. I like Gus and January's banter well enough, but a lot of the conflict stems from January's inability to talk to Gus and communicate all her resentment and concerns with him. It's annoying and even if I didn't connect with Gus, I wanted to tell him to leave her. There was no romantic chemistry to me at all.

The plot had potential, but it felt squandered. The idea of two authors swapping novels was cool. I liked the research of cults. Still, it was just something the characters did on the side. It's trying to be both women's lit and romance and fails at both since it couldn't pick a focus. It swung from carefree romance to heavy topics.

In the end, I was close to DNF-ing this book. However, it's only because I only had an hour left in the book that I powered through. It was such a slog and I skimmed towards the end because I really disliked being in January's POV. I am still willing to give Emily Henry one more chance since I see bones of a book I would like, but it's on thin ice.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Infidelity, Alcohol

Minor: Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury

chrysanthemum17's review against another edition

4.5

funny lighthearted tense 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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This book is so cute omg

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Infidelity, Alcohol

Moderate: Death, Sexual content, Vomit, Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Fire/Fire injury

rayyc's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Addiction, Vomit

annamorgan27's review against another edition

3.0

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: No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Grief

Moderate: Cancer, Cursing, Death, Infidelity, Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury

amandatory13's review against another edition

4.0

hopeful reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: N/A

Strong character development: Yes

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Why is it called beach read if they are almost never on the beach

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Fire/Fire injury