abbyluvsfrogs444's Reviews (308)

Words can't describe how beautiful this book is. I loved every word of it. I grieved with Michelle every second. Recommend to everyone to read. You will not regret it.

"My first word was Korean: Umma. Even as an infant, I felt the importance of my mother. She was the one I saw most, and on the dark edge of emerging consciousness I could already tell that she was mine. In fact, she was both my first and second words: Umma, then Mom. I called to her in two languages. Even then I must have known that no one would ever love me as much as she would."

Wow. What an amazing story. I have too many thoughts to narrow them down but I loved the women in this book. Their fierce bravery, loyalty, and love. They are such fantastic women and I look up to them immensely. I love the family aspect of this book. All the relationships Nahr has are so special. She loved and was loved deeply. Also, the way this was written was absolutely gorgeous. What brilliant storytelling. What a beautiful way to tie words together. I love this book.

fantastic. love the letter format. kept me interested. i love charlie & feel like we would be good friends. also let's talk about how perfect the movie was casted??? brilliant. i love how mental health is discussed. just overall so good.

4.5 starts. excellent book.

I did not see that ending coming. Holy crap. The whole time I was so confused as to who was behind all of this. Crazy. Agatha Christie is a genius. That's all I have to say.

"Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you" (pg 267).

I have never, and probably will never, love a romance book as much as I love this one. I saw a lot of myself in Nora. Her passion, her no-nonsense attitude, her anxieties and fears, her sarcasm, to name a few. I adored her. I laughed with her and mourned with her. I felt like I knew exactly what she was going to do at any given moment because she is so much like me. Out of all of Henry's heroines, Nora Stephens is my favorite. And out of all of her love interests, Charlie Lastra is my favorite. This book is my favorite of Henry's work. I loved Nora and Charlie's dynamic. I loved watching them fall in love. I loved how they communicated. I didn't find myself screaming at them in frustration if they didn't communicate, because they did. They actually acted like adults and had better life skills than a lot of characters in romance novels I've read. The way Charlie treats Nora makes me want to scream at people in relationships with subpar men to break up with them and find someone like Charlie Lastra. I love him. I found myself relating a lot to him as well. In an alternate universe where he actually exists, I would snatch that man up so quick.

"Oh, shit. It is a smile. He's pleased to have made me laugh. Which makes me blood feel like maple syrup. And I hate maple syrup" (pg 123).

Another thing I would like to talk about is Emily Henry's writing. She is a master at sucking you in. The moment you start this book, it's like the words reach out and pull you in and you live within the pages until the book is over. Then when the book is over, you find yourself wanting to go back and live there forever. Emily is also fantastic at writing characters. She makes them whole, complete, complicated, and messy. She makes words on a page appear human, as if they are in front of my face. This is a book I want to live in forever. I want to experience a love like Nora and Charlie's. I wish I had photographic memory so I could take a picture of every single page and go back to them any time I wanted. Thank you Emily Henry, you evil woman, for raising my standards for love yet again. Now I will never be happy until I find a man like Charlie, or Gus, or Alex.

"For the first time in my life, I know what the hell Cathy was talking about when she said I am Heathcliff. Not just because Charlie and I are so similar, but because he's right: we belong. In a way I don't understand, he's mine, and I'm his. It doesn't matter what the last page says. That's the truth. Here, now" (pg 301).

again, five stars. sylvia plath's words shoot straight to my soul. a piece of literature has never helped me feel more seen and understood. i could say a bazillion things about this book but it would take too long so i'll just drop my favorite quotes.

"Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself. I just bumped from my hotel to work and to parties and from parties to my hotel and back to work like a numb trolleybus. I guess I should have been excited the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to react. It felt very still and very empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo."

"The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it."

"I saw the years of my life spaced along a road on the form of telephone poles, threaded together by wires. I counted one, two, three... nineteen telephone poles, and then the wires tangled into space, and try as I would, I couldn't see a single pole beyond the nineteenth."

"I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it."

"I would be sitting under the same glass bell jar, stewing in my own sour air."

"A bad dream.
To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.
A bad dream."

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart.
I am, I am, I am."

belly can have conrad...i will take jeremiah. he is clearly the better brother. sorry but it's true.

The only reason I finished this train wreck of a book was because I needed resolution. I needed these very stupid people to get over themselves and communicate. Which they did. Finally. Even though it felt like pulling teeth. This book was not an escape. I felt stressed and frustrated the whole time. I have no idea why so many people like this one. It was such a cute premise for a book but the execution was not what I was hoping for.

This book was meh. The characters were bland to me. I mean I guess this book was supposed to be realistic but when I want to read a book that's sold as a romance book, I want romance. It's that simple. This book just seemed to drag on. And Harry was seriously messed up. He's a walking red flag. Not to mention that he makes his own zombie movies??? I had a hard time taking him seriously. And this book was not as feminist as it seems. Audrey was so rude to her ex's new girlfriend even though she didn't do anything wrong. And calling her stepmom a whore and a slut? Nope. Hating on other women is not feminist. Audrey's hate of romcoms was overdone. I adore romcoms and I am hardcore feminist. You can be both, believe it or not. Nothing about this book was feminist. It was overdone and irritating and dragged on and the ending was dumb. Don't read this book. It was a waste of my time.