Beach Read by Emily Henry

Good evening lovely book readers,

As you may have guessed the April Theme is out: Yellow and/ or Purple spines or covers. With additionally, two easter eggs that have been on my TBR for so long.

Let's kick of this month with the first book: Emily Henry's first novel, Beach Read.

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.

4 stars, and I haven't had those a lot in a long time.

First let me start with the writing. It is the author's first novel and I could not express how surprised I was. This is some god damn good novel. The author has a nice writing style and is reputed for delivering some good romances. It sometimes reminded me of Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Secondly, the story. It was a beautiful story which evolved around the bookish world. Which by far is one of my favourite setting. And the characters. They are just so relatable.

She is described as a fairy Princess because she believes in happy endings, and yet her whole world crumbles down the day her father died. She has trouble believing in happy ending and has trouble writing a romance novel, on top of that her neighbour and fellow author, he himself does not believe and happy endings and always thought that she could.

Life changed them both and now they are trying to find a way to make it out there into the world and publish their respective books.

I hope you enjoyed it!

Love,

Manon 🌼