A review by mullemit
Beach Read by Emily Henry

3.5

I enjoyed reading a book about writing, but its meta-ness made me extra critical of its structure which didn’t always hold up. The tension of the books was a bit unnecessarily drawn out and a lot of the introspection quite heavy handed and very told not shown. What worked for me was the chemistry of the characters, the dialogue, and a lot of the themes and foils. 

But one final note that bugs me - there’s so much alcohol in this book?? And it is never addressed?? January and Gus have barely any scenes together not under the influence of or in the search for alcohol and that just doesn’t sit right with me..
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