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A review by ashleigheva
Beach Read by Emily Henry
4.0
[3.6/5]
i thought taking a break from romance would give me time to shed myself of the coat of cynicism too much romance had brought upon me, but it seems i've just had a general change of heart
nonetheless i still did enjoy this book
still wish romances would find other reasons to keep the couple initially apart either than boy has trauma and doesn't want to open up because he is damaged
but in spite of that, i do think this book handled it quite well so
i also really loved how the viewing of romance as a "lesser" genre was addressed
interesting because i was all tossed up on whether i should bring this book along with me to school or not because it's a romance and i do not relish in being teased (though of course it's done with no malice and probably speaks more to my own instability in assuring myself of my intellectual capabilities regardless of my choice in reading material. wow i sound like an absolute dickhead don't i.)
honestly sometimes i had no idea what was going on with the secondary cast
i had to go back and try and remind myself who a character was and what their story was
none of the secondary characters felt fleshed out at all which i suppose is fine since they're not the focus but with the way they sort of conveniently swoop in to serve some kind of narrative function/literal function within the story for the leading pair, it kinda just makes it seem like their lives revolve around them
also gus's whole thing with january is that he thinks her outlook on life, which he sees as vastly different from his, is special
i wish we had gotten more on exactly what exemplifies january's outlook, whether it be examples in january's life or what gus saw in her from his perspective
because for most of this novel we see her as the grief stricken girl who had her hopes of happy endings shattered, which hardly proves gus' point
as it stands we kinda just take the author's word for it that gus saw this supposed thing in her i guess
i am sleepy and incoherent and i have an exam why am i doing this GOODBYE
i thought taking a break from romance would give me time to shed myself of the coat of cynicism too much romance had brought upon me, but it seems i've just had a general change of heart
nonetheless i still did enjoy this book
still wish romances would find other reasons to keep the couple initially apart either than boy has trauma and doesn't want to open up because he is damaged
but in spite of that, i do think this book handled it quite well so
i also really loved how the viewing of romance as a "lesser" genre was addressed
interesting because i was all tossed up on whether i should bring this book along with me to school or not because it's a romance and i do not relish in being teased (though of course it's done with no malice and probably speaks more to my own instability in assuring myself of my intellectual capabilities regardless of my choice in reading material. wow i sound like an absolute dickhead don't i.)
honestly sometimes i had no idea what was going on with the secondary cast
i had to go back and try and remind myself who a character was and what their story was
none of the secondary characters felt fleshed out at all which i suppose is fine since they're not the focus but with the way they sort of conveniently swoop in to serve some kind of narrative function/literal function within the story for the leading pair, it kinda just makes it seem like their lives revolve around them
also gus's whole thing with january is that he thinks her outlook on life, which he sees as vastly different from his, is special
i wish we had gotten more on exactly what exemplifies january's outlook, whether it be examples in january's life or what gus saw in her from his perspective
because for most of this novel we see her as the grief stricken girl who had her hopes of happy endings shattered, which hardly proves gus' point
as it stands we kinda just take the author's word for it that gus saw this supposed thing in her i guess
i am sleepy and incoherent and i have an exam why am i doing this GOODBYE