Review by mollydolly2404 - Beach Read

mollydolly2404 's review for:

Beach Read by Emily Henry

2.0

🎖️ Low 2 Stars

DESCRIPTION

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.

FORMAT

Digital - Kindle

REVIEW

★★☆☆☆

Although the story started to pick up towards the end, it wasn’t overly engaging.

I liked both January and Gus, and wished we got to see more of their blossoming relationship.

I didn’t enjoy the stuff regarding her dad.

Overall, this book was fine, but I would not recommend. It didn’t live up to the hype.

SPICE

Moderate 🌶️🌶️

TROPES

📖 Enemies to Lovers
📖 Rivals
📖 Forced Proximity

READING LOG

▫️2024

Content Warnings