beach read by Emily Henry

Forty-eighth book of 2020

Reading period: Jun 11th 2020 – June 17th 2020

Summary

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.

Rating

Review

I honestly enjoy my first Emily Henry book.

The thing that I love the most was the interaction between them.
January and Augustus assumed that they knew each other from college, but they discover that there are more behind it.

As they go on their writings, you see that the chemistry is here, but they make things between them go back and forth, which makes things awkward but funny.

The POV is only from January, at the beginning I wanted to have both of their POV, but in the end, I enjoy to have only one and feel that it would have been detrimental to the story to have both.

I cried while reading the thirtyish last pages; I wasn’t prepared to that. I love the epilogue of the story as it is the image of their relationship.

This novel is perfect for this summer.

Liz.