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A review by gracecouch6
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
3.0
Hello, we meet again.
I have been putting this review off so I thought why not get it out? Firstly this is not an attack on Emily Henry, I sincerely think she is a wonderful aspiring author and writer.
The characters: I found most, if not all, characters in this book dull, boring, and underdeveloped to be completely honest. The sister, Libby, yeah no. She was barely there as an actual character, and quite frankly I'm not digging the whole 'Nora will completely be crazy and go to extreme levels of craziness to ensure Libby's annoying happiness' and not to mention, Nora babied Libby so much and all the time it felt like Libby still hadn't grown up even though she had almost three kids.
Don't even get me started on the whole 'Charlie' thing. First off, I liked Charlie, he was sweet, sometimes funny, he had a lot of my favorite lines, and he was the perfect book boyfriend, he didn't get mad, he was mellow all the time, he was supposed to have a 'dark tragic back story but ended up just a big softie. That's EXACTLY what I have a problem with. His character just felt so easy. I shouldn't get recommendations from my friends anymore, because what I like in a book is raw, human emotions, I like to relate to the characters so much, that I absolutely feel as if that character is just me distilled into pages. None of this fluff. Emily Henry tried to make it seem like this book was 'oh so serious' but honestly, it just felt like she made a mediocre romance book and added stuff to make it more 'adult' Maybe I should loosen up, but this book didn't have any drama, it was just so breezy for their relationship and everything that supposedly went 'wrong' but was in fact not even that big of a deal, to begin with. Now, I'm not going for Emily Henry's writing style, but in general all romance books like this one, contemporary, new adult fiction, always end up being the same as every other book but watered down.
The last thing I'm saying, or else I'm gonna be here a lot longer, is I enjoyed the story somewhat, it had a few quotes or scenes I liked, and overall it kept me semi interested, but people can go without reading this book for sure. 2.5
I have been putting this review off so I thought why not get it out? Firstly this is not an attack on Emily Henry, I sincerely think she is a wonderful aspiring author and writer.
The characters: I found most, if not all, characters in this book dull, boring, and underdeveloped to be completely honest. The sister, Libby, yeah no. She was barely there as an actual character, and quite frankly I'm not digging the whole 'Nora will completely be crazy and go to extreme levels of craziness to ensure Libby's annoying happiness' and not to mention, Nora babied Libby so much and all the time it felt like Libby still hadn't grown up even though she had almost three kids.
Don't even get me started on the whole 'Charlie' thing. First off, I liked Charlie, he was sweet, sometimes funny, he had a lot of my favorite lines, and he was the perfect book boyfriend, he didn't get mad, he was mellow all the time, he was supposed to have a 'dark tragic back story but ended up just a big softie. That's EXACTLY what I have a problem with. His character just felt so easy. I shouldn't get recommendations from my friends anymore, because what I like in a book is raw, human emotions, I like to relate to the characters so much, that I absolutely feel as if that character is just me distilled into pages. None of this fluff. Emily Henry tried to make it seem like this book was 'oh so serious' but honestly, it just felt like she made a mediocre romance book and added stuff to make it more 'adult' Maybe I should loosen up, but this book didn't have any drama, it was just so breezy for their relationship and everything that supposedly went 'wrong' but was in fact not even that big of a deal, to begin with. Now, I'm not going for Emily Henry's writing style, but in general all romance books like this one, contemporary, new adult fiction, always end up being the same as every other book but watered down.
The last thing I'm saying, or else I'm gonna be here a lot longer, is I enjoyed the story somewhat, it had a few quotes or scenes I liked, and overall it kept me semi interested, but people can go without reading this book for sure. 2.5