[Book Review] Beach Read by Emily Henry

Summary

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.

Facts

Published: May 2020
Length: 400
Genre: Romance
Format: ebook

Review

You know when you finish a book and then you go and look at other peoples reviews, and they are the complete opposite of how you felt… well this is me and this book. Honestly, I have no idea how it has so many great revies on Goodreads.

This book took me 3 days to finish I almost DNF’d at 100 pages but pushed on thinking it had to get better, spoiler alert… it didn’t.

I was so bored; it was one of those books where you’re waiting for something to happen but then nothing ever does. I don’t even know what the point of the story was. Even the romance was dull. I thought MMC again boring, I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m not a fan of grumpy MMCs who are unable to communicate, the FMC was just depressing.

In Summary, I should not have read this book.

My Rating: 1/5 🌟

About the Author‘s

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.