Beach Read by Emily Henry

Book Review:

Beach Read by Emily Henry

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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.

Review:
A slow burn romance (that wasn't steamy) with some humorous banter. Enemies to lovers.

Although I enjoyed this book, I will say it took me a hot minute to get into it. I think authors would like this book because it touches on the writing process and a little bit of what they go through with writers block. I liked that this book wasn't all sunshine and happiness, maybe that's strange but I enjoyed that January and Gus had some emotional trauma to work through before fully admitting their love for each other. Gus's work with the cult was interesting to say the least and I'm glad that we got to hear Sonya's side of the story. Also, the fact that January and Gus go way back was one of the best parts of the story line.

"...instead of trying to convince myself that someday everything would be okay, I focused on the fact that, right now, it already was."