Beach Read by Emily Henry
A literary writer who is caught in a rut and a romance writer who has given up on love take on a summer-long challenge that might just change their perceptions of happily ever afters. A well-known literary fiction author is Augustus Everett. Bestseller romances are written by January Andrews. He murders his entire cast when she writes a happily ever after. They are completely diametric.
They actually have nothing in common other than the fact that they will both be residing in nearby beach cottages for the next three months, being broke, and suffering from writer’s block.
They eventually come to an agreement to break out of their creative ruts: January will write the next Great American Novel, while Augustus will spend the summer penning something upbeat. This happens one foggy evening. He’ll take her to interview surviving members of a remote death cult, and she’ll take him on field trips fit for any rom-com montage. No one will fall in love, and everyone will finish a book.
Beach Read by Emily Henry
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The protagonist of this book is January. Because of her parents’ extraordinary love story and her own luck in love, January, a romance author, is currently experiencing a significant writing rut. But now that she’s recently learned that her mother was having an affair with her father when she was battling cancer, she’s going through a melancholy episode, and when she does, her boyfriend-soon-to-be-fiance decides he can’t handle it since she’s no longer fun, and they break up. Since her father passed away, January is contemplating her next move at the seaside property she believes to have been his romantic retreat.
Although the charming town is lovely, she is too sad to take pleasure in it and is only able to recall the joyous person she used to be. She encounters her cranky neighbour at that point, or at least she has a few fleeting encounters with him when she can’t really see his face. In fact, Grump is her former college writing class adversary who is now well-known in his own right for pedantically dismal literature.
a narrative centred on two authors who each specialize in literary fiction and romance. Augustus and January are utterly dissimilar to one another (aside from attending the same university where they were classmates). Augustus was more concerned with developing complex plots, whereas January was a firm believer in happily ever afters. Each writer had their own literary voice and ideas, but thanks to the chance to meet on North Bear Shore, their summer was improved. First of all, the writing careers of January and Augustus and their creative processes were strongly emphasized in this novel. So, fair warning, the beginning was a little slow, but as I immersed myself more in the plot, the pace began to pick up.
In order to get away and start writing her next book, January immediately travelled to North Bear Shores. To clear her head and start over, January needed to leave for a variety of personal reasons. She also wanted to try to finish the work she had told her publisher she would have finished. Surprise along the route! Augustus Everett, a former classmate of January’s and a rival (at least in her eyes). Known as Augustus, Guess what? Gus happened to reside in North Bear Shores. He shared an apartment with January!
