Reviews tagging Emotional abuse

Beach Read, by Emily Henry

41 reviews

hannibanani29's review

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death of parent, Infidelity, Grief, and Alcohol

Moderate: Vomit, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Cursing, and Cancer

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Car accident, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse

bootsmom3's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective relaxing slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Infidelity, Sexual content, Grief, Confinement, Alcohol, and Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Cancer, and Physical abuse

Minor: Mental illness

fleur____'s review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted 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? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Infidelity, Death of parent, Chronic illness, Cancer, and Medical content

Moderate: Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Murder, Physical abuse, and Vomit

juliaaaaaa's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad 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

4.75

the writing style is so beautiful. and it's the most realistic romance book i ever read. i just didn't like how january acted sometimes, pushing gus to talk to her. 
besides that, i loved it and cried many times.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Domestic abuse, Infidelity, and Physical abuse

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Vomit, Cancer, and Sexual content

rachelreadsrelentlessly's review

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted relaxing

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

4.0

This was so cute. I've quickly become a fan of everything that Emily Henry puts out. I love that her romance novels tend to have lots of character depth and a plot separate from the romance.

I loved Gus so much and I am a sucker for the "I've had a crush on you all along" trope. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Physical abuse

lara_bk's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Moderate: Alcohol and Cancer

Minor: Emotional abuse

filipa_maia's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring sad fast-paced

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

4.0

This book was really good. And I say it like that because, once again, this is not my go-to genre. But, once again, was a suggestion from my monthly reading group and I decided to give it a chance.

This is not a typical romance in a sense that are some really dark and heavy topics represented: domestic abuse, a cult, death... the kind of themes that are not associated when you ear the genre romance.

I really enjoyed this book. I like how dark and mysterious Gus is and how fragile and hurt January feels. And I like the way both of them decide to give each other a chance (although, sometimes, January frustrated me a lot). The best part about this book is that it shows that two people with completely opposite visions of the world can find common ground.

I really liked this book and will look for more books by Emily Henry.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Abandonment, Grief, Chronic illness, Infidelity, and Death of parent

Moderate: Death, Vomit, Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Physical abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Car accident, Alcohol, and Cursing

naysia_reads's review

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted sad slow-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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse and Death of parent

kirstytlr's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring 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

5.0

I read this book so quickly as I just couldn't put it down. Emily Henry sure knows how to nail characterisation. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Cancer

xandrav's review

emotional hopeful relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Grief

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Child abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Vomit, and Religious bigotry