A review by jlautry
Beach Read by Emily Henry

mysterious relaxing slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Two rival authors end up next door neighbors after each facing a personal tragedy, then they meet and decide to challenge one another by swapping genres and writing a book in the other’s genre. 

This was a fun, delightful, little snack of a book. I liked the storyline and it was a cute story. Totally recommend if you’re looking for a literal beach read. And it has one of the best quotes I’ve seen in a book.

"Your mother has been a lot of people in the twenty years I've known her, and I've had a chance to fall in love with every single one of them, Janie. That's the key to marriage. You have to keep falling in love with every new version of each other, and it's the best feeling in the whole world."

I wish more couples realized this going into marriage. “He’s not the man I married 15 years ago!” Well, of course not! No one is who they were 15 years ago. You will both change, grow, and evolve and you have to continually get to know one another and you get to fall in love over and over and over again. 


Small spoiler alert ahead: For those of you that have read this, I understand the irony of who said/wrote this and why it was written, but the validity and truth of that statement still stands.
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