Beach Read
by Emily Henry
Release Date: May 19, 2020
Source: Own Copy
A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.
They're polar opposites.
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.
Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
Wow was this amazing. I loved this book. It was emotional, funny, and just so easy to fall in love with.
This story follows January. January has just lost her father and found out the her whole parents marriage was a lie. She doesn't trust the one person she thought she could trust in the whole world anymore. She decides to go to her dad's house that is on lake Michigan.
In this small town she discovers that her arch nemesis since college, Gus lives there too.
Gus is the epitome of a brooding hero. He doesn't let January in at all at first. But they start to warm up to each other. One night they strike up a deal for each other to write the other person's genre. So Gus is going to write a romance novel and January is going to write a literary fiction book. As they go about their summer, they both learn more about themselves. And grow as people together. And of course they fall in love. But January also finds out more about her dad and why he did what he did.
To be honest I cried at the end of this book. There were just so many emotions that were going through January and I felt each one with her. This book looks like a fun rom- com. It is but its also very emotional towards the end. I loved this book so much. Please go pick it up if you haven't already!
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