Beach Read - Emily Henry

Beach Read

By Emily Henry

  • Release Date: 2020-05-19
  • Genre: Romantic Comedies
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 4,929 Ratings

Description

FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF PEOPLE WE MEET ON VACATION AND BOOK LOVERS!

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.

Reviews

  • A romcom that changed the game.

    5
    By georgestanleyjr
    Beach Read comes across as a fun summer read, but in reality it’s a raw story about grief, heartbreak, and falling back in love with yourself as much as it is a romance. Emily Henry has such a talent for weaving together humor and depth that each took my breath away. I had tears from laughter and sadness at each page and each took me off guard and kept me on my toes. January’s life taking a 180 and her whole world view being challenged set the tone for the story and the way it was tied up in the end broke my heart and put it back together all in one sitting. And then there was Gus. I fell so hard for him at every detail revealed just as January did. His character seemed at first to be a dark, mysterious type but his soft side came through in such a thoughtful way. Both characters give to each other what the other was missing and in turn they learn to begin to heal themselves in the process. Overall, Beach Read both tugs at the heartstrings and shares near-revolutionary and profound truths about grief and love.
  • Forced!

    1
    By Jeff M.A
    The story seemed forced and the writing really immature. I love fluff but this was beyond!
  • Beach read

    5
    By jadecatherine24
    It was so cute and perfect to read in summer
  • Cute

    5
    By SoniaHugs
    I love Emily Henry’s books and had read this one to complete all of them. I read so many negative reviews but in all honesty I don’t believe this book deserves that. It is a cute book and has great characters. The characters in this book seems to have so many challenges and it isn’t all sunshine and rainbows but it’s a good book. If you like Emily Henry, read it. It’s cute, happy, sad, up and down but you’ll enjoy it.
  • A little boring

    2
    By knicolet
    Never was able to finish the book as much as I love romance books. Follows the very typical next door neighbor trope and it got boring to me half way through :/
  • lovely

    5
    By addieee13
    this book is very well written and easy to read, with believable, lovable characters:) it was these qualities, among others, that made Beach Read the first book i’ve finished for my own enjoyment in about a year. i laughed and smiled and even cried a little bit throughout this lovely summer read, and i highly recommended to anyone who needs a moment to feel understood🫶
  • Too cute

    5
    By Kelly LeVeque
    ….perfect beach read.
  • January and Gus have me forever.

    5
    By msmickelle
    The best book I’ve read this year, it was amazing and left me speechless. LOVE.
  • Nice

    3
    By Angelica813
    A little predictable. Wouldve liked to have her elongate the “chase”. Gus spent 5tears there and never saw her dad when he could literally see inside the house? Idk. A little slow at times. Its ok for a quick read
  • 4.5✨

    5
    By JanellieReads
    Perfect book to read for the summer

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