Review | Beach Read by Emily Henry

Beach Read

by Emily Henry
Published on May 19th, 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance, Fiction

Format: Paperback

Source: Bought at Indigo

Summary from Goodreads: 

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 neighbouring 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.

Buy Links:

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Review

"𝘼𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙖𝙜𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙢𝙚 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨𝙣'𝙩 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛. 𝘽𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙜. 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙢𝙚 𝙄'𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙬𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣. 𝙄'𝙙 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙡𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙝𝙞𝙢, 𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚."

I finally had the time to read Emily Henry's Beach Read and I can say hands down that it did not disappoint!

Her books have been endlessly recommended and I thought what better time than the present to check out what all the hype is about. And I'm going to be honest, I had seriously low expectations going into it but my gosh did it surprise me how much I would honestly adore this story.

It is such an easy, fun-filled, enjoyable read! liked how January and Augustus managed to deal with, grow, and heal from the damage they each went through from their own individual lives. The characters were all so relatable in their struggles and personal development that it was at times truly moving to read, especially as they learned from one another while still staying essentially true to who they were. I enjoyed reading the characters' backstories, the way they reconnected years later in North bear Shores, and even just the town itself (if only it wasn't fictional!). 

Emily Henry's writing had the ability to not only suck you into the story but also keep you captivated from beginning to end. A truly short, easy, and just an overall entertaining read. I know I'm definitely going to be picking up her other books very soon!

Let me know in the comments if you've read this book or any of Emily Henry's other works.

Rating

★★★★★

About the Author

Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers, People We Meet on Vacation and Beach Read, as well as the forthcoming Happy Place. She lives and writes in Cincinnati and the part of Kentucky just beneath it.

Find her on Instagram @EmilyHenryWrites.

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