I love Emily Henry, she’s one of my favorite romance author. I wanted to give my ranking of her work after finishing her latest book and see how people feel about all of her books. Anyway, here’s my ranking: 1. Beach Read This is by far my favorite book of hers. I love January’s outlook on the world, even after heartbreak and grief she is still a romantic and an optimist. I love Gus, my favorite love interest. He is down bad for January. I really liked the cult sub plot and made me love this book immediately. It was almost a blend of a literary and a romance book. This book always gives me a reset when I read it. Can’t wait for the next reread. 2. People We Meet on Vacation I love this book and I’m sad that a lot of people dislike it. I love Poppy and Alex. Their relationship is almost tragic. Poppy might be my favorite main character. She is a lot at times but it made her feel like a real person. I love Alex. He so clearly loves and cares about Poppy. Probably my most reread book of hers. 3. Happy Place I loved this one. I’ve only read it once but remember being emotionally drained and loving it when I finished it. I loved Harriet’s journey and found her growth to be very relatable. I’m also a sucker for second chance romance and loved the chemistry between Harriet and Wyn. This is my favorite book cover as well, I love the pink. 4. Funny Story Very fun and cute. I love Miles and Daphne and their grumpyxsunshine romance. I loved Daphne’s growth in learning to make friends and struggling with that. I enjoyed this one but didn’t love it as much as her other ones. 5. Book Lovers I know this is a lot of people’s favorite EmHen books but it’s not mine. I really love Charlie, he truly is one of the best love interests in her universe. I struggle with Nora and being in her point of view. I didn’t find it interesting or endearing that Nora had to learn that her sister is an adult that can take care of herself even though she has kids. I did love the setting and the subversive plot of city girl in a small town but not my favorite protagonist. 6. Great Big Beautiful Life This is my least favorite of hers and only book I’ve given below a 2 star rating. I really liked the concept of GBBL and with a bit more editing and maybe even a longer book length this could’ve been great. Alice and Hayden don’t have a lot of chemistry and their romance was boring, which was surprising from an Emily Henry read. I wish we saw more of the romance between Margaret Ives and Cosmo Sinclair. It was very underdeveloped.

I usually go and read reviews of my completed books, sometimes to see if I missed anything themewise/plotwise, but mostly for the fun of it. Now I can't even get through some of the recent reviews without visibly CRINGING at the blatant AI. Can we just have one thing that is not touched by AI in this hobby??? I've seen it on here. I've seen it on GR. I've even seen it bookstagram captions. I mean, is it really that serious???? I get it, I find it hard to articulate everything I felt about a book in a few paragraphs. But the idea of using AI to do so just fills me with secondhand embarrassment. I would rather write a corny ahh statement like “I couldn't put this down!” rather than resort to asking chat to write a review?? The tone is always so unbearably positive, and the sentences all follow the same formulaic wording, it is nauseating. Even if all the points brought up are good, just reading those generated reviews takes away any joy I had in reading. I wish people who did use it knew how obvious it is to spot an AI post. I mean, you are posting this review to be read by people who love to read? You don't think we can recogbise wack ahh AI slop when we see it?? Embarrazzing.

I joined page bound three days ago and am loving it! But not seeing a ton of romance readers like myself. So please say hi in the comments so I can follow you & get my rom recs 💕💕💕

Hi everyone! I’m new to pagebound and loving it so far 💛 wondering if there are any quests catered to asian literature? I couldn’t find any and thought it would be a good inclusion. Been meaning to read more asian lit books and having a quest would definitely help with that. Otherwise, does anyone have any good recs for asian lit? :) ps; looking for new friends here too!!

I'd love to read more romance - or (literary) fiction with a strong focus on the love story - but I often don't like popular recommendations. I think I am simply a bit picky when it comes to writing style, but I think part of the issue is also that popular books are often either rom-coms or erotica and I prefer more character driven, slowly developing love stories. What I like: - the book NEEDS to have good writing and good dialogue - I like queer love stories but more in the vein of "Sunburn" and "Song of Achilles" and less "God of Fury" and "For the Fans" (and the issue here is not the smut but the atrocious writing, no offense to anyone who enjoyed those books) - character driven, slow-burn - it honestly does not have to have much of a plot - I do enjoy some of the more classic romance/rom-com books ("Lost and Lassoed" and "Red, White and Royal Blue" for example) but those are more hit or miss for me Examples/ my own recommendations: - The Trio by Johanna Hedman - Sunburn by Chloe Michelle Howarth - Seven Days in June by Tia Williams (obviously) - A Dowry of Blood by S. T. Gibson - The Dove in the Belly by Jim Grimsley

Hello, I was wondering if you all prefer ebook or physical book and which you use most. I have a kindle but barely use it, I recognise it is pretty convenient, especially when travelling, but I simply can’t get into it. Any advices?

I've meant to read this for years, so better late than never. It feels like a fitting time to read it too, with the way the world is. I am apprehensive that it will be written in a style I can't get into, or that I'll find it a slog 😅

I'm sad, I thought I would enjoy this read, given the hype around the book and my love for memoirs...Well, I can't get into it. I have a problem with the writing, too childish for my taste and I feel like there are a lot of unnecessary details making the book longer than it should. Hopefully, as she gets older, the writing will improve. If i don't end up DNFing it...

it's been years since my heart has pounded from the outcome of a fictional match. I'm so excited.

My thoughts so far on Patrick’s interactions with the kids: He definitely makes age inappropriate jokes and can’t “get on their level” which I found annoying & cartoonish at first, but then I realized his whole personality is being a washed up actor. He doesn’t know how to function without having an audience to make laugh, and he has his whole monologue at the beginning of the book about comedy and landing a joke. I realized he’s not really interacting with the kids to connect with them - he’s performing for an invisible adult audience (us?). Seeing him through this lens makes him far less cartoonish and unrealistic (which has been my beef so far; no adult would expect a 6 year old to read Vanity Fair for example, but now I believe we’re supposed to know Patrick is in on the joke and also knows this).