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Beach Read by Emily Henry

35 reviews

annick's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

This spoke to me. I read a lot of fantasy and unrealistic fiction. This was refreshing. Grounded in real life emotions and experiences and humour. The final few chapters didn’t deliver as much as I’d hoped but I will be reading this again. Highlighting and annotating the humour and spice and most importantly the emotional and philosophical reflections. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Child abuse, Vomit, Grief, Abandonment, Sexual content, Terminal illness, Cancer, Violence, and Toxic relationship

kpopstan8's review against another edition

funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Alcohol, Violence, Sexual content, and Fire/Fire injury

gabbylandis's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

This book was such a beautiful commentary on love, family, grief, loss, and growing into your career. I loved this book. Emily Henry’s insights on personal growth are simply inspiring and had me hooked. I also loved the journey of the writing process and how Janie and Gus’s writing coincided with the plot of the book. The ending was satisfying. 0.5 off for extremely misplaced sex scenes (who has a breakdown and then gets railed?!) and some… interesting… verb choices for touching someone else nicely (really? scraping???) but overall a great novel. Henry should be proud of herself. This is one I would return to again after sitting on it for a little.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death of parent, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Abandonment, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, Sexual content, and Vomit

bakers_bookends's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective relaxing 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? It's complicated

5.0

Emily Henry speaks to my soul. The banter, the realistic character growth.. Augustus is swoon worthy, and January was lovable. A great steamy gentle enemies to lovers story with great layers of grief journeys for both characters in different ways. I loved this! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Murder and Violence

elspethmigliore's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

this was such a sweet book. i love the main characters so much and i found them so much more relatable than other contemporary romance characters. i really enjoyed the setting of the story.

the only thing that was off-putting about the book was how slow it felt at times. it wasn’t the whole story, there were literally pages of miscommunication and frustration that i felt were not very important. also, gus’s speech at the end about naomi really frustrated me because he basically made it sound like he was ready to give up january for naomi. like even after everything they went through he dtill sounded ready to drop january completely. apart from that, he’s definitely one of my favorite book boyfriends. 

would definitely reread again ✅

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Cursing

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Physical abuse, Cancer, Medical trauma, Violence, Terminal illness, and Trafficking

Minor: Vomit, Alcohol, and Car accident

hannahshriver5's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Vomit and Violence

morahsharon1's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Infidelity, and Violence

Minor: Injury/Injury detail

l_e_lavalle's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Cancer, and Child abuse

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Grief, Physical abuse, and Violence

Minor: Car accident and Injury/Injury detail

knunderb's review against another edition

funny hopeful fast-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

5.0

I loved this book. It is funny with complex, multidimensional characters. It examines how pain information our decisions and how we view the world. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Vomit, and Violence

Moderate: Death of parent and Cancer

abi2xox's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.75

I just love Emily Henry. 
This book is not a disappointment like every other of her books. It is like a movie. I cried and laughed which I seem to be doing in all my books when I am in love with the characters. Which I was with in January. Gus is just a lost soul and I loved getting to know him and his past. 
I didn't think I would give this book a chance. It was so slow at the beginning but I am so glad I gave it a go. 
Emily Henry is my favorite author which is why I knew if I stuck with the book I would thoroughly enjoy it. 
The letters had me crying so hard at the sheer amount of emotion that you could tell was being written through the page. 
I wish we had more of the mum and Jnauary's conversation because I was longing for these two try and mend their relationship the whole book. 

Emily, you have done it again. Definitely recommend. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, Death, Cancer, and Grief

Moderate: Vomit, Sexual content, Murder, and Fire/Fire injury