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A Million Junes
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For as long as Jack “June” O’Donnell has been alive, her parents have had only one rule: stay away from the Angert family. But when June collides—quite literally—with Saul Angert, sparks fly, and everything June has known is thrown into chaos.
Who exactly is this gruff, sarcastic, but seemingly harmless boy who has returned to their hometown of Five Fingers, Michigan, after ...more
Who exactly is this gruff, sarcastic, but seemingly harmless boy who has returned to their hometown of Five Fingers, Michigan, after ...more
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I LOVE EMILY HENRY.
I love Emily Henry, and I love June (aka Jack O'Donnell IV) and I love Saul and I love Hannah and I love Jack O'Donnell III and I love families and I love magical realism and I love this book.
I love it so, so, so so so so much.
Changing this to a five star because a) obviously and b) you should always five star books that are so pretty they make you tear up a little bit on a Greyhound bus.
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UGH. YES.
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I love Emily Henry, and I love June (aka Jack O'Donnell IV) and I love Saul and I love Hannah and I love Jack O'Donnell III and I love families and I love magical realism and I love this book.
I love it so, so, so so so so much.
Changing this to a five star because a) obviously and b) you should always five star books that are so pretty they make you tear up a little bit on a Greyhound bus.
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UGH. YES.
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This is my fun little book about love, lakes, ghosts, grief, inheritance, magic, Michigan, and the meaning of life and death. it's chill.
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4.5*
I adore magical realism, and this was like a Shakespearean tragedy (think Romeo and Juliet) magical realism hybrid, so it was right up my alley. This definitely isn't for everyone as it requires a certain suspension of disbelief, but if you allow yourself to get lost and embrace the oddities of this story, you will most likely love it like I did. The writing had the perfect amount of whimsy and darkness to it and everything just clicked to create this wonderfully strange tale. Now I will say ...more
I adore magical realism, and this was like a Shakespearean tragedy (think Romeo and Juliet) magical realism hybrid, so it was right up my alley. This definitely isn't for everyone as it requires a certain suspension of disbelief, but if you allow yourself to get lost and embrace the oddities of this story, you will most likely love it like I did. The writing had the perfect amount of whimsy and darkness to it and everything just clicked to create this wonderfully strange tale. Now I will say ...more
for me, a books writing is the most important part. for some, its the characters. for others, it may be the story development. but i think the writing is what makes the difference between a good book and an unforgettable one.
for example, magical realism is still a genre i am working on liking. im either a fantasy person or a contemporary person, so it makes me a bit uncomfortable when the two combine. however, the writing in this made me love this book so much. the genre may be outside my comfo ...more
for example, magical realism is still a genre i am working on liking. im either a fantasy person or a contemporary person, so it makes me a bit uncomfortable when the two combine. however, the writing in this made me love this book so much. the genre may be outside my comfo ...more
Swoon. Emily Henry's writing style is just everything.
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Oct 21, 2018
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i've pretty much come to terms with the fact that magic realism and i, do not get along
ever since i read maggie stiefvater's raven cycle series (back in 2016) i thought it was going to be the genre that spOKE TO MY SOUL
no, it just turns out that maggie's thing
anyways this year it kinda came to my attention (after reading 2 anne-marie mclemore books and being in the constant state of emotion of: ¿??¿?¿¿?¿?¿¿?¿?¿¿) that perhaps magic realism,,,,,,isn't my thing
SO WHEN I HEARD THIS BOOK WAS PART ...more
ever since i read maggie stiefvater's raven cycle series (back in 2016) i thought it was going to be the genre that spOKE TO MY SOUL
anyways this year it kinda came to my attention (after reading 2 anne-marie mclemore books and being in the constant state of emotion of: ¿??¿?¿¿?¿?¿¿?¿?¿¿) that perhaps magic realism,,,,,,isn't my thing
SO WHEN I HEARD THIS BOOK WAS PART ...more
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i’ve read many many amazing books these past few months, but never one that made me want to start reviewing again. but A Million Junes makes me want to share something; it makes me want to feel something deeper and actually talk about it. simply put, A Million Junes is so incredibly special.
in all honesty, i don't think this is everyone's cup of tea. the concept is a little strange because it's not quite contemporary but also not quite anything ...more
i’ve read many many amazing books these past few months, but never one that made me want to start reviewing again. but A Million Junes makes me want to share something; it makes me want to feel something deeper and actually talk about it. simply put, A Million Junes is so incredibly special.
in all honesty, i don't think this is everyone's cup of tea. the concept is a little strange because it's not quite contemporary but also not quite anything ...more
This book is utterly spellbinding in every way. The language, the descriptions, the mythology. Emily Henry is just a brilliant writer. That's all there is to it. This book is impossibly full of magic.
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Wow. This was like a mix of I'll Give You the Sun and Holes. Such a beautifully strange story. I already want to re-read this. I loved it SO much. *sobs forever*
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DNF at page 235
I am sorry, but this book is utterly and irrevocably not my cup of tea. I struggled with it for more than a week and I don't see a point of doing it any longer. I am just not interested in the story or characters at all. It's sad, though, that I have to call it my first ARC DNF, but, well, it is my first ARC DNF.
A Million Junes was my first Emily Henry book and I've heard quite a lot of good about her debut The Love That Split the World, so I when I saw the ARC of June, I
Jan 09, 2018
Gabby
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really liked it
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“Grief is an unfillable hole in your body. It should be weightless, but it's heavy. Should be cold, but it burns. Should, over time, close up, but instead it deepens.”
This was going to be a 3 star book for me until that ending.. oh my god my heart. This is a story about this girl named Jack who goes by June, she's named after her Dad and their family thinks they've been cursed. This is a gorgeous story about the love between a Father and a daughter, and the grief someone can experience when ...more
4.5 stars
I wish so much this were a true 5-star book for me. It was five stars in my heart and five stars through perhaps the first 50-60%. The ending wasn't bad, by any means, but it lost a bit of its own magic with too many explanations (ones that didn't always fit to me) and a literal walk-and-talk of exposition at the end to tie everything together. For a story that flitted so magically at the beginning, the laying out of all the pieces really halted the magic for a moment.
Other than that o ...more
This review could also be found at Carole's Random Life in Books.
There was so much to love about this book. It was almost a magical experience reading this book. The story just kind of sprang to life for me and I was really swept away by the story. I couldn't get this story out of my head and if I had a moment free I was reading this book. This was a book that I quickly learned to expect the unexpected and just let the beauty of the storytelling take over. Simply put, this was an amazing book.
Ja ...more
There was so much to love about this book. It was almost a magical experience reading this book. The story just kind of sprang to life for me and I was really swept away by the story. I couldn't get this story out of my head and if I had a moment free I was reading this book. This was a book that I quickly learned to expect the unexpected and just let the beauty of the storytelling take over. Simply put, this was an amazing book.
Ja ...more
I am a sucker for anything that compares itself to R+J, but couple that with Emily Henry's name and I didn't need to know anything else.
I love love loved June and Saul. They're both grieving and trying to work through it and I loved every scene with them together. They have an immediate and hilarious banter. I could have easily read a million more pages of the two of them. The entire cast of characters is delightful. {I would like more Hannah please!} It did get a bit confusing with all of the ...more
I love love loved June and Saul. They're both grieving and trying to work through it and I loved every scene with them together. They have an immediate and hilarious banter. I could have easily read a million more pages of the two of them. The entire cast of characters is delightful. {I would like more Hannah please!} It did get a bit confusing with all of the ...more
After BEACH READ, I knew Henry was a talented writer that could make me laugh and hurt and completely compell me into forgetting the world exists (I type this after midnight on a monday morning and I guarantee you I'll be grumpy in a few hours.. but no ragrets!). I didn't expect this book to be what it was, though. An exploration of grief, love, tragedy, storytelling, growing up, with a ROMEO & JULIET-style vibe but also with magic and curses. There's a lot that I wish I had time to unpack, and
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I thought I was already done with magical realism until I’ve read A Million Junes. It’s truly beautifully written without being too flowery which I usually fear from magical realism books. Sometimes, they’re written too lavishly that I couldn’t understand most of it but this book is different. In fact, it reads more like a contemporary. It’s emotional, funny and engrossing and not hard to read at all.
The characters seem really real, and well-developed. The plot is also very interesting. Basical ...more
this book was special. it felt like reading a tiny part of the universe, drinking warm hot chocolate, being hugged, running under the rain, and sobbing uncontrollably. all of this at once. it was incredible.
Beautiful writing, witty & realistic dialogue, a bad-ass heroine, a swoony love interest, a unique and magical plot - I loved every minute of this book!
I need to gather my thoughts but just know that this is now one of my favorite books of all time. I hate myself for putting off reading this for so long. It’s an incredible, beautifully written story about grief and loss but told in a unique and fantastical way. Even with magic houses and ghosts and curses, the emotion is grounded in a genuine real way that at points made me think there was a magical hill where you really could see the people you love and lost again. This book is easily one of m
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Jack McDonnell IV aka June is the latest Jack in her lineage to carry on the family name, and with that comes the dark history and the family Angert that she is supposed to stay far away from.
You know the age old story- forbidden romance only makes the heart want it more and Saul Angert and June McDonnell can stay away only so long before they start to realize the connection they have and the twisted history of their family's past. Death and broken hearts, cherry trees and magical coywolves. I f ...more
You know the age old story- forbidden romance only makes the heart want it more and Saul Angert and June McDonnell can stay away only so long before they start to realize the connection they have and the twisted history of their family's past. Death and broken hearts, cherry trees and magical coywolves. I f ...more
Jun 01, 2017
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A Midsummer Night’s Fever Dream
By Judge Katie Cotugno
Once in a blue forever, you come across a book that features so many of your favorite elements that you can’t help but wonder if it was written specifically for you. A Million Junes felt that way to me: part Shakespearean retelling and part Alice Hoffman-style magical realism, the novel teems with luminous, evocative language and characters so alive I half-expected them to climb off the page and walk around my house. Throw in a forbidden roman ...more
By Judge Katie Cotugno
Once in a blue forever, you come across a book that features so many of your favorite elements that you can’t help but wonder if it was written specifically for you. A Million Junes felt that way to me: part Shakespearean retelling and part Alice Hoffman-style magical realism, the novel teems with luminous, evocative language and characters so alive I half-expected them to climb off the page and walk around my house. Throw in a forbidden roman ...more
DNF.
i just cant connect with this book at all.
i just cant connect with this book at all.
Magical realism is quickly becoming my go-to sub-genre. It lends itself to the here and now while also being a bit mired in fantasy elements. Add to that the star-crossed lovers aspect and I am sold. The O'Donnells and the Angerts have generations-long feud that rivals that of the Hatfields and McCoys and A Million Junes is basically the unraveling of that tale, of how the feud started and how it will end. There is banter. There are flashbacks. And there is magic. And it all culminates into a gl
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I really enjoyed this one.
It was quite far into the magical realism genre, which I loved, and I adored the story itself. The book is about reexamining what you think you know about the people you love, about grief and loss, and learning to let go of the past and move forward. The romance and friendship between June and Saul was balanced and didn't feel overwrought, so in that sense there was a mature and lasting feel to their relationship.
This was my first book by Emily Henry, and I found her wr ...more
It was quite far into the magical realism genre, which I loved, and I adored the story itself. The book is about reexamining what you think you know about the people you love, about grief and loss, and learning to let go of the past and move forward. The romance and friendship between June and Saul was balanced and didn't feel overwrought, so in that sense there was a mature and lasting feel to their relationship.
This was my first book by Emily Henry, and I found her wr ...more
4 Stars
The synopsis of this book tricks you into thinking it is a love story.
I suppose that descriptor isn’t wholly inaccurate - there is a romance, after all, but it’s only one element of this very heartfelt and emotional book. I would say it is less a love story, and more just a story about love. Love in all its different shapes and sizes: love that takes the form of grief, love of friends and family, and the true love of another soul that not everybody finds in life.
Magical realism has always ...more
The synopsis of this book tricks you into thinking it is a love story.
I suppose that descriptor isn’t wholly inaccurate - there is a romance, after all, but it’s only one element of this very heartfelt and emotional book. I would say it is less a love story, and more just a story about love. Love in all its different shapes and sizes: love that takes the form of grief, love of friends and family, and the true love of another soul that not everybody finds in life.
Magical realism has always ...more
My Thoughts:
THIS. WAS. AMAZING. period, done. What more can I say? okay fine. seriously though, I’m gonna own this book.
This is a story of multiple complex relationships with magical realism. This story is compared with Romeo and Juliet which it had that vibe but it is NOT romeo and Juliet, I promise. The story unfolds in multiple timelines while maintaining a consistent current timeline. It’s so different than other books I’ve read like it! With each of the timelines, the time period can be pre ...more
THIS. WAS. AMAZING. period, done. What more can I say? okay fine. seriously though, I’m gonna own this book.
This is a story of multiple complex relationships with magical realism. This story is compared with Romeo and Juliet which it had that vibe but it is NOT romeo and Juliet, I promise. The story unfolds in multiple timelines while maintaining a consistent current timeline. It’s so different than other books I’ve read like it! With each of the timelines, the time period can be pre ...more
Growing up, June was given two rules, as easy as that sounds, she managed to break them despite trying very hard to keep them.
June was a fourth-generation O'Donnell. Their strip of land in Michigan sat on a magical land, an entrance into an other-worldly place.
One of her family's rules was to avoid the Angerts, and if you guessed that she could not keep that rule, you would be right. The rules, a generational curse, and even grief could not keep these two love birds apart.
It was an enjoyable re ...more
June was a fourth-generation O'Donnell. Their strip of land in Michigan sat on a magical land, an entrance into an other-worldly place.
One of her family's rules was to avoid the Angerts, and if you guessed that she could not keep that rule, you would be right. The rules, a generational curse, and even grief could not keep these two love birds apart.
It was an enjoyable re ...more
4.5 Stars!
I can't believe I slept on this one for so long! ...more
I can't believe I slept on this one for so long! ...more
This reminded me so much of The Weight of Feathers. It has a similar Romeo and Juliet theme.
I had the author on my radar ever since I read her debut novel the love that split the world. I was really impressed with her writting and I couldn't wait to read her next story.
"A Million Junes" prooved to be everything I was expecting from the author. It is heavier on the magical realism but that didn't bother me at all. EH creates a magical world, a place blessed by the Gods, a heaven on earth. But pe ...more
I had the author on my radar ever since I read her debut novel the love that split the world. I was really impressed with her writting and I couldn't wait to read her next story.
"A Million Junes" prooved to be everything I was expecting from the author. It is heavier on the magical realism but that didn't bother me at all. EH creates a magical world, a place blessed by the Gods, a heaven on earth. But pe ...more
"You know life's not like this. Even when it's good, it's hard and terrible and you lose things you can't ever replace."
I haven't read a lot of magical realism and, I have to admit, it's weird. (I like weird).
Here we have a generations-long feud between two families: the O'Donnells and the Angerts. It's a deeply rooted hatred that has brought a great deal of misfortune to both families.
A curse?
You know what happens next, don't you?
FORBIDDEN LOVE!!!
June and Saul can't help falling in love even th ...more
I haven't read a lot of magical realism and, I have to admit, it's weird. (I like weird).
Here we have a generations-long feud between two families: the O'Donnells and the Angerts. It's a deeply rooted hatred that has brought a great deal of misfortune to both families.
A curse?
You know what happens next, don't you?
FORBIDDEN LOVE!!!
June and Saul can't help falling in love even th ...more
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