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Emily Henry

Start date: December 1, 2022

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Jun 14, 2022 Amy rated it really liked it

They say you can't judge a book by its cover but this time, judge away if you're a book lover. Emily Henry masterly weaves together book quotes, quirky characters and pens the relationship between a 'sharky' agent and curmudgeonly editor. That playful banter will leave readers eagerly paging through the story until closing the final chapter.

Nora and Charlie are an unlikely pair but delving beneath the surface, their combative nature are jacketed covers. From appearances, they seem larger than l ...more

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Jul 18, 2023 Debbie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I love a good bookish romance, but this one had some nice twists that I hadn't seen before. Nora's great, as is Libby and Charlie, and that whole group of people in North Carolina. But each of them also had their own story arc, dealing with emotional trauma from their pasts, and each of them got to deal with it in turn. I felt like some of the characters' traumas were brought out a little too late, but that's my opinion. I liked that the woman in new waters wasn't the one with the bookstore, I l ...more

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May 19, 2022 Kath rated it really liked it

Solid four out of five on the beach read scale. Very well written, witty dialogue, likable and unexpected characters, can’t go wrong with this book! Two city dwellers who happen to be book editors fall in love in a small town one summer. The author is in on the tropes which makes it fun to read.

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Jul 14, 2022 Marcella rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, romance, 2022-100-book-challenge

3.5 seems right for a book that doesn't get anything majorly wrong nor majorly right. It didn't have the magic of Beach Read. Mostly I didn't believe in the characters; they're described (and only described--lots of telling instead of showing) as competitive, overly professional, or "shark" agents, but we really don't see that in action. The premise was to turn the trope of the big city girl in the small town on its head, but it just wound up varying it slightly. Several questions remained unans ...more

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