January heads to the Michigan shore after her life falls apart. A bestselling romance writer, she’s used to creating happy endings for her characters. But now that she’s unhappy, it’s going to make it even harder to deliver the fifth book in her deal with her publisher.
Her neighbor in the beach house next door is Augustus Everett, who writes literary fiction. Gus doesn’t believe in happy endings, and has disdain for the type of so-called “fairytales” that January writes.
As the two of them realize they’ll be working next door to one another every single day, they make a bet: they’ll swap genres and whichever one writes the better book will have the other one promote it and write a blurb. On top of that, every Friday they’ll go on an outing he plans, related to research he’s doing about a now-defunct cult, and on Saturdays they’ll go on a rom-com-worthy outing. (They’re not dates. And no one is going to fall in love.)
So you know what comes next, but it’s far more complicated than that. Both January and Gus are fighting through significant emotional scars that they don’t want to talk about. And there are connections between the two of them they're not willing to acknowledge at first.
Can happiness be found when two people don’t think they’re capable of happiness and aren’t sure if love is worth the risk? Where do you find the courage to let your guard down when you’ve been badly hurt before? And perhaps the most important question: will they both finish their books on time?
I’ve been dying to read Beach Read for a while and it was just amazing. It’s fun and sweet and sexy and romantic, populated by fascinating supporting characters, and it’s also surprisingly poignant and thought-provoking.
It’s everything I wanted in a rom-com and so much more! If you can’t get your hands on a copy ahead of time (thanks to Book of the Month for mine), it comes out May 19!
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