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Emily Henry has managed to smuggle some emotional genius under the guise of a romance book.
Like yes, there’s romance. But every other character’s relationship with “truth” and the side characters? That’s where the real show was.
This is the first EH book where I truthfully could not put it down. I needed to know more about the Ives family. Needed to know more about everything really. The stories were masterfully told and intertwined in a way that was reminiscent of Evelyn Hugo but uniquely its ...more
Like yes, there’s romance. But every other character’s relationship with “truth” and the side characters? That’s where the real show was.
This is the first EH book where I truthfully could not put it down. I needed to know more about the Ives family. Needed to know more about everything really. The stories were masterfully told and intertwined in a way that was reminiscent of Evelyn Hugo but uniquely its ...more
buckle up- i have a lot of thoughts!
as a self proclaimed em hen super fan, i was pumped for this new release! butttt this just didn’t check all of the boxes for me.
i respect & love emily moving away from strictly romance into more of a literary fiction space. genre switches are always tricky to navigate and i found myself as a reader having to remind myself that this wasn’t a contemporary romance. that being said, i did like the romance between alice & hayden but it felt like the enemies becam ...more
as a self proclaimed em hen super fan, i was pumped for this new release! butttt this just didn’t check all of the boxes for me.
i respect & love emily moving away from strictly romance into more of a literary fiction space. genre switches are always tricky to navigate and i found myself as a reader having to remind myself that this wasn’t a contemporary romance. that being said, i did like the romance between alice & hayden but it felt like the enemies becam ...more
I found myself having a hard time keeping all of the names from the past together. Overall a good book and a good, first Emily Henry read for me.
Dec 16, 2024
Rachel Collins
marked it as to-read
Jan 07, 2025
lyza (bookish version)
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Mar 03, 2025
pj
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Mar 22, 2025
Kayti Wink
marked it as to-read
Mar 23, 2025
Jessica
marked it as to-read
Jun 04, 2025
Julia Kim
marked it as alwaysbookedchallenge
Aug 23, 2025
Manda
marked it as alwaysbookedchallenge
Sep 03, 2025
alexa:)
is currently reading it
