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A review by theboricuabookworm
Beach Read by Emily Henry
5.0
4.75/5
The only reason this is not getting 5 stars is because at times the romance was a little rushed and some weird timeline things that through me off.
(edit): Perfect for adults that read Sarah Dessen as a teen. Heck. This is basically an adult Sarah Dessen novel and I'm Not Mad About It.
"The only promise you ever had in life was the one moment you were living. And I was."
When I say "I was not expecting this", I mean this is not at all the book I thought I was going to be reading. I was scrolling bookstagram today and I saw this thing that said something along the lines of "not every book has to be a heavy hitter, it's okay if some books are just cheesy, feel good things", and that was the expectation I had of this. I was not looking for a heavy hitting, life changing book when I picked up Henry's novel, but somehow that is what I found (sort of). Beach Read follows January Andrews a year after her dad passed away and her world forever changed. She's now in North Bear Shores, Michigan, on a deadline to write her next novel and sell her dad's house. But who is next door other than Augustus Everett, fellow writer and January's college nemesis. Over the next three months January will learn how to love, how to let go, and how to grieve in a heartbreaking story that came out of nowhere and hit me right in the chest.
I was okay thinking this book was just going to be a 'beach read': sexy romance, cranky banter, and bad sunburns. Which it was (minus the sunburn) but it was also so much more. This book was a lesson in living one moment at a time, learning how to grieve someone whilst also admitting their flaws and not stop loving them for it, and sometimes second chances aren't always a bad thing (yes hi hello second chance cynic here). While this might not have been a heavy hitting piece of literature, January and Gus' story unfolded in such a beautiful, albeit messy, way that will have me reaching for this book time and time again.
The only reason this is not getting 5 stars is because at times the romance was a little rushed and some weird timeline things that through me off.
(edit): Perfect for adults that read Sarah Dessen as a teen. Heck. This is basically an adult Sarah Dessen novel and I'm Not Mad About It.
"The only promise you ever had in life was the one moment you were living. And I was."
When I say "I was not expecting this", I mean this is not at all the book I thought I was going to be reading. I was scrolling bookstagram today and I saw this thing that said something along the lines of "not every book has to be a heavy hitter, it's okay if some books are just cheesy, feel good things", and that was the expectation I had of this. I was not looking for a heavy hitting, life changing book when I picked up Henry's novel, but somehow that is what I found (sort of). Beach Read follows January Andrews a year after her dad passed away and her world forever changed. She's now in North Bear Shores, Michigan, on a deadline to write her next novel and sell her dad's house. But who is next door other than Augustus Everett, fellow writer and January's college nemesis. Over the next three months January will learn how to love, how to let go, and how to grieve in a heartbreaking story that came out of nowhere and hit me right in the chest.
I was okay thinking this book was just going to be a 'beach read': sexy romance, cranky banter, and bad sunburns. Which it was (minus the sunburn) but it was also so much more. This book was a lesson in living one moment at a time, learning how to grieve someone whilst also admitting their flaws and not stop loving them for it, and sometimes second chances aren't always a bad thing (yes hi hello second chance cynic here). While this might not have been a heavy hitting piece of literature, January and Gus' story unfolded in such a beautiful, albeit messy, way that will have me reaching for this book time and time again.