“A beautiful, lyrical, and achingly brilliant story about love, grief, and family. Henry’s writing will leave you breathless.” —BuzzFeedRomeo and Juliet meets One Hundred Years of Solitude in Emily Henry’s brilliant follow-up to The Love That Split the World, about the daughter and son of two long-feuding families who fall in love while trying to uncover the truth about the strange magic and … truth about the strange magic and harrowing curse that has plagued their bloodlines for generations.
In their hometown of Five Fingers, Michigan, the O’Donnells and the Angerts have mythic legacies. But for all the tall tales they weave, both founding families are tight-lipped about what caused the century-old rift between them, except to say it began with a cherry tree.
Eighteen-year-old Jack “June” O’Donnell doesn’t need a better reason than that. She’s an O’Donnell to her core, just like her late father was, and O’Donnells stay away from Angerts. Period.
But when Saul Angert, the son of June’s father’s mortal enemy, returns to town after three mysterious years away, June can’t seem to avoid him. Soon the unthinkable happens: She finds she doesn’t exactly hate the gruff, sarcastic boy she was born to loathe.
Saul’s arrival sparks a chain reaction, and as the magic, ghosts, and coywolves of Five Fingers conspire to reveal the truth about the dark moment that started the feud, June must question everything she knows about her family and the father she adored. And she must decide whether it’s finally time for her—and all of the O’Donnells before her—to let go.
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This book is FANTASTIC. I honestly could not put it down. The characters are real, flawed and funny, but they live in a world where magic and ghosts are just as “real”; the setting and plot are full of unique details, and the mystery keeps the story moving. This is one of my favorite books of 2017 so far.
A transcendent and moving portrayal of how grief shapes memory, and how the legacies we leave are a collection of moments and heartbeats. Henry’s writing feels like a knife in the night—unexpected, cutting, and heart-jolting.
A Million Junes is intricate, strange, ecstatic, and spellbinding. The sheer poetry and imagination of Emily Henry’s writing won’t take your breath away—you’ll give it up willingly.
Dreamy, beautiful and completely enchanting, A Million Junes feels true in the way that all of the best stories do—with tangled families, grief-tinged memories, loyal friends, deep love, and a little bit of magic. It’s a story that will haunt you like a feathery ghost, lingering long after you’ve put it down.
4.5 rounded to 5
The only way I can describe this is book is as an equally weird and beautiful love story. I think that the plot was well developed and intriguing but a little slow from time to time. The book is centered on the romantic relationship between June and Saul, but a prominent theme is how different people process grief, which I think was interesting. Regarding the characters, I have to say that the characters were so well written that I thought of them as real people as I was reading. Although I liked this book a lot, I do not believe it is for everyone because of its magical realism. However, I would encourage people to give it a try.
I enjoyed this book quite a lot although some parts were more confusing than others.
A great romance set in the magical five fingers, June (Jack O’Donnel) is forced to work with her family’s greatest enemy to stop a curse that killed her father and Saul Angerts (Love interest) sister.
I really enjoyed the story and would recommend it to people who like a good romance novel.
“I pull my notebook onto my lap and start to write. This time I tell the whole truth as I know it. The story about a girl named Jack and the magic house she lived in and the man she loved more than all the water in every lake. How one day they listened to the heartbeat of a golden hen and the slow groaning of the earth. How when she went inside, he started out at the darkness and began to cry. How two weeks later, he was gone forever. Or maybe not quite.”
4 impressive stars! Wow! I jumped into this book with zero expectations and no idea of what this book was about. This book deals with a great deal of loss and love and how to overcome grief. This story is about Jack and her magical adventure of falling in love with ‘the boy next door’ named Saul who is also forbidden to ever go near. This book was in fact, fast-paced as well and I am amazingly impressed with this story and Henry’s writing style. Her writing style is simple, but yet unique in a way that she describes things as if it were a dream and I loved it! There were so many great quotes in this book that I could put in this book review, but it would make this review the longest ever.
I am definitely going to read more from Emily Henry! Would recommend to anybody who is looking for a romance book mixed with magical elements that deal with loss and grief.
This book was very interesting me. It is more of a fantasy book with ghosts, spirits, and magic.
This is a modern rendition of Romeo and Juliet with a twist. Do you believe what happens in the past can and will effect your future? What if what happened was generations before you were born? What if a misunderstand stood in your way of happiness, and it was a misunderstanding before you or your parents existed? This is what Jack (June) and Saul are facing, and they decide to face it head on!
This story requires you to use a bit of imagination. There’s a hint of magical realism, which is beautifully executed. Each character served a purpose, even if you didn’t understand what their purpose was in that exact moment. This story is witty, whimsical, and fun. The writing is superb in a way the author creates such a spellbinding world, characters, story, and you can’t help but to get caught up in the whirlwind that is Jack and Saul.
I will be completely honest with you, this book won’t be everyone’s cup of tea… and that’s okay! Read this book with an open mind and a bit of imagination, and you’ll love this book as much as I do. I thought this was absolutely fantastic.
I purchased this book to read and review it for possible inclusion in a book study that goes along with our school’s study of Romeo and Juliet. The book had all the required “forbidden love” but was just a little too far on the fantasy side to truly fit in with this unit. I will recommend to our teacher that each of them have a small set for their avid readers who truly enjoy the supernatural.