Book Review: Beach Read by Emily Henry

Book: 41/100

Rating: 4/5

Read this one if you are looking for: a rom com that makes you laugh out loud, a book about books, and a little sprinkle of family drama.

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.

Thoughts: Okay, I am such a stickler when it comes to romances and I need one of two things to really like a romance read: it needs to be laugh out loud funny, or I need to FEEL the love between the two main characters. This one was the former: there were so many moments, particularly in the first half, that made me laugh out loud. The second half was a little more focused on the romantics and building Gus and January's relationship, but I found it a really good balance and it worked for the story.

It was a really quick and fun read and one of those that I stayed up late reading!

Buy it/loan it/skip it? I'd say buy it!