Beach Read

Beach Read

By Emily Henry
Narrator: Julia Whelan
Release date: 19 May 2020
Listening length: 10 hours and 13 minutes
My review: 4 out of 5 stars

The Instant New York Times Best Seller from the Number One New York Times Best-Selling Author of People We Meet on Vacation

“Original, sparkling bright, and layered with feeling.” (Sally Thorne, author of The Hating Game)

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 best-selling 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.

This was a mostly lighthearted rom-com book. This starts out as the story of a woman, dealing with the grief of losing her father and finding out he had a side she didn't know. Now the words that used to come to her so freely, aren't coming. Can she still write if she can't even believe in happily ever after? The way that this book weaves the whole story together is just beautiful. Makes me really cling to the happy right now moments. <3 Definitely will be looking for more books by this author.