January Andrews is a best-selling romance author who is facing the very thing that all authors dread, writers-block. She hasn't been able to write anything since her father died unexpectantly and she discovered at his funeral that he had been having an affair. Her father's mistress had approached her at the funeral with a letter and keys to a mystery beach house. She goes to the beach house to get it ready to sell and hopefully break through her writer's block. But how is a romance author supposed to write romantic novels when she believes that romance is dead?
Augustus Everrett has been living at the beach for years when January Andrews moves in next door. He remembers her from their college days at the University of Michigan but hasn't seen her since until one night she yells at him for an excessively loud party. After that, they slowly work their way into each other's lives and come up with an unusual plan to break through the writer's block that has been plaguing the both of them. While their friendship blossoms into something more the fact remains, they are both keeping secrets as to the reason why they have writer's block. Will they be able to be honest with each other and themselves in time to meet their deadlines?
Beach Read was a really cute book about two writers with one thing in common. The inability to get a story down on paper. Their genres are about as opposite as two things could be - January is a romance writer and Gus is an acclaimed literary star. I loved their banter and the playful way they behaved, but I didn't like how they kept things from each other, their respective insecurities keeping them quiet. Of course it is all revealed in the end, but they wasted a lot of time by keeping those secrets. I will say that Gus's Aunt Pete was one of my favorite things about the book. She was a good influence on both of their lives.
Bottom Line - Beach Read is exactly what you think - a feel-good rom-com. But don't mistake that for a fluffy read. Gus and January are more than just tropes, they are deep, textured characters and you will fall in love with both of them as you devour this book at a beach near you.
Details:
- Beach Read by Emily Henry
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- Pages: 384
- Publisher: Berkley
- Publication Date: 5/19/2020
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- Thank you to NetGalley for the book in exchange for an honest review.
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