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A review by athravan
The Beach Reads Book Club by Kathryn Freeman
3.0
The Beach Read Book Club is a romantic comedy about a book club who become friends and a community through coming together and reading romance books. It's a story about friendship as well as romance, which is plentiful, as book club creator electrician Lottie and up-tight book shop owner Matt have some serious chemistry. But Matt is tortured by his past; how he failed his wife and his family, and Lottie still hasn't got over ex Henry, who chose his career over her, leaving her with a broken heart. We have to find out if Lottie is ready to move on and let herself feel for someone new, and if Matt is ready to open up and loosen up.... and what's going to happen when Lottie's ex shows up? Well, you'll have to read that for yourself.
I particularly enjoyed the idea of this light hearted book club, because I'm in one myself as well as a serious book club, and I love the bonding that happens whilst chatting about books. The addition of actually telling us what books were being read was great (there's only really light, spoiler free discussion about them, so don't worry about that). Several of the books in the book club I actually looked up and put on my to-read list, so if you're looking to find more romance books to read, this could definitely help!
A few things didn't quite hit the mark for me, I'm not a fan of Fifty Shades of Grey and the eight or so mentions of it either as a joke or some sort of reference to sex, didn't really hit the mark for me. The treatment of the original book club - as someone who enjoys both serious and light books - seemed quite unfair and negative, and there's a tiny twist associated with that at the end that annoyed me.
Overall a light and mostly entertaining read. I'm going with the Goodreads start system of three stars = liked it.
I particularly enjoyed the idea of this light hearted book club, because I'm in one myself as well as a serious book club, and I love the bonding that happens whilst chatting about books. The addition of actually telling us what books were being read was great (there's only really light, spoiler free discussion about them, so don't worry about that). Several of the books in the book club I actually looked up and put on my to-read list, so if you're looking to find more romance books to read, this could definitely help!
A few things didn't quite hit the mark for me, I'm not a fan of Fifty Shades of Grey and the eight or so mentions of it either as a joke or some sort of reference to sex, didn't really hit the mark for me. The treatment of the original book club - as someone who enjoys both serious and light books - seemed quite unfair and negative, and there's a tiny twist associated with that at the end that annoyed me.
Overall a light and mostly entertaining read. I'm going with the Goodreads start system of three stars = liked it.