BOOK REVIEW: BEACH READ BY EMILY HENRY

Hey everyone!

 My latest review is for the upcoming novel by Emily Henry: Beach Read. Coming out on May 19th 2020! 




5 SHINY, WONDERFUL, FILLED WITH TEARS OF JOY STARS! 

Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Beach Read is quite possibly my favourite book I’ve read this year so far, and it has definitely made its way to my top 5 all time favourite books! 

"Bad things don't dig down through your life until the pit's so deep that nothing good will ever be big enough to make you happy again. No matter how much shit, there will always be wildflowers." 

I went into this book without any specific expectations, I only wanted to read it and let the story envelop and surprise me. And I could not be more pleased! 

Beach Read follows January and Gus, both published writers who have found themselves struggling to put their next story onto paper due to mishaps in their personal life. And so they make a bet to finish writing their books by the end of summer and see who can sell it first. If a story about people who write stories doesn’t already scream INCREDIBLE at you, then you should also know that Beach Read will give you two amazingly well developed and lovable characters, heartwarming moments, people and relationship development, and so much more! 

Emily Henry writes a love story like I’ve never seen before. I fell in love with January and Gus, but I also felt their pain, and their hurt, and the sympathy they have for each other over the inevitable things life has thrown at them. Emily Henry wrote so many hauntingly beautiful passages in this book - that I could so closely relate to/feel - that I don’t think I will ever forget them for as long as I shall live. 

Gus and January both feel so real and like characters someone can easily relate to, maybe not with the specifics of their back stories, but just through how human they feel and how their worries about life and relationships and their weariness about what the world really is and what being alive means; how all of this passes from them to the reader in a way that makes you feel understood. 

This is such a well written, joyful, uplifitng, captivating story that also deals with the pains and realities of life and reading it has left me extremely content. A story I didn’t know I needed but am so extremely thankful I had a chance to read and will forever hold with me in that part of my heart that stores all the greatest things. 

Here’s to happy endings!

 This review is also on my Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3169856281?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1

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