Beach Read by Emily Henry
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.
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.
Review: Rival writers who end up as neighbors and are both struggling with writer's block! This was fun. I love Gus and January and really liked that they were both writers who love to rib each other for each's chosen writing genre.
The banter in this was great and I loved the backstory on these characters. Their interactions are both snarky and sweet and they are opposites in nearly every way. I also liked how we slowly learn about Gus's past and what he has been through. This is steamy and they help heal each other in addition to helping each other get past their writing slumps. In short, this is a rom com with heavy themes and depth, and it makes sense that this launched Emily Henry into author stardom.
I will say, I finished this four days ago, which is longer than I usually wait to write my reviews. And I am already having a hard time remembering enough to write a coherent review. I think I am just saturated in love stories, but it follows a blueprint that I've read a lot of already and while I enjoyed this in the moment, it is quickly fading.
This was wonderful on audio with our queen, Julia Whelan, narrating.
Stars: 3.5
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