A review by kiiitasticbooks
Beach Read by Emily Henry

4.0

 

Emily Henry has a gift for pulling readers in with a very humorous writing style, even if the contents of the book don’t quite match the level of humor.

Beach Read tells the story of January, a woman who finds out at her dad’s funeral that he was cheating on her mom and living an entire second life with another woman. Now the owner of the house he kept secret for years, all she wants to do is sell it and write her next book before the quickly-approaching deadline.

Except she has writer’s block. And she finds out her dad’s neighbor is her college nemesis.

Like I said, there was a lot of humor in this book, which I can attribute more to Emily Henry’s writing style than I can anything particular about this book. This author just writes a lot of weird and silly situations in the backgrounds of these books that have readers hooked until the final page.

Unfortunately, another thing I am finding with Emily Henry’s books is that once they’re done… they’re gone. Immediately after finishing Beach Read, I knew I would never think of this book again. Unless someone asks me about this book, no part of it is ever going to enter my thoughts in the future.

They’re good while you’re reading them, but entirely forgettable once you’re done.