Great Big Beautiful Life in Always Booked Summer Reading Challenge

Apr 29, 2025 Hannah rated it it was amazing

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

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Apr 09, 2025 Emma Caron rated it it was amazing

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A big, fat 5 stars for Emily Henry’s new masterpiece, Great Big Beautiful Life ❤️

This book was maybe Emily’s best work yet. The way the story wove throughout and brought these characters lives to be intertwined was so raw and honest, the heart of all the characters pulling you in and leaving you hanging on their every word. When I finished this book, I just sat there for a while taking in everything that I had just heard.

Hayden and Alice were the perfect grumpy sunshine and their love was truly ...more

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May 17, 2025 MC Mauney rated it liked it

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

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