Beach Read - Emily Henry

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Title: Beach Read
Author: Emily Henry
Genre: Chick-lit
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 361 pages
Date read: February, 2022

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.


I was a bit hesitant to start this one, as I hadn't been too impressed by Emily Henry's other book ("People You Meet On Vacation"), but I needn't have worried - this one is SO much better! It's the old enemies-to-lovers trope, but it works, and I really, really, really appreciated that Emily Henry didn't feel the need to add an additional crisis for more conflict. For once I didn't actually feel like yelling at the characters to just communicate already, because more often than not they did so by themselves at a realistic pace.

Really sweet book that I'll probably have to add to my physical library at some point... and I really want to read the two books they wrote!