Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry

Seasonal Vibe: Summer
Travel Location: Seaside island in Georgia
Historical Time: Contemporary, with flashbacks
Read: April 24-26, 2025
Format: Switched between Barnes & Noble special edition hardcover and Audiobook
418 pages | 🎧 Great audiobook

Great Big Beautiful Life has nice seaside vibes and the romance with the two writers has a great rivals-style tension to it. The stories told by the old woman make it like a dual timeline book with lots of scenes from the past. I enjoyed the character-based mysteries.

Great Big Beautiful Life is Emily Henry’s new book for 2025. If you’ve read her other contemporary romances, I think you’ll like this one too. If you haven’t read any, they’re all standalone books so it’s fine to start with the newest.