Beach Read

May 25, 2020 |  No Comments

Beach Read

by Emily Henry

Date Published: May 19, 2020
Published By: Berkley
Page Count: 361


Publisher’s Description:

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.


My Star Rating:

5 of 5 stars

My Review:

Beach ReadBeach Read by Emily Henry
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Hands down 5 stars.
What did I love about this book? The vivid characters, the messy history, the messy present, the slow, slow burn, the hate to love done really well. The main characters, the side character, the setting. The character flaws, the character growths.

I don’t know what I was thinking expecting this to be a fluffy rom-com full of rainbows and sunshine, but what I got was was deep and dark and messy and emotional. And maybe it hit a little too close to home in a lot of ways, making this book, the entire experience, so damn relatable.

This is a book I will definitely want to reread, like a favorite movie. Absolutely one of my top reads of 2020 so far, if not the top read.

I predict this will boot The Hating Game from many most-beloved romance lists, and it’ll be well-deserved. I’ll also definitely be watching out for more from Emily Henry.

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