Beach Read
Emily Henry
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
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· Steam/Spice level: 3 of 5
Open door [?]
· 821 ratings · 384 pages · Published: 19 May 2020

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.
Tagged as:
- contemporary 41
- funny 30
- slow burn 29
- grumpy/cold hero 25
- second chances 24
- friends to lovers 23
- enemies to lovers 23
- small town 23
- angst 20
- m-f romance 18
- forced proximity 16
- sassy heroine 16
- tortured hero 13
- poor heroine 11
- grumpy & sunshine 7
- nerdy hero 6
- hurt/comfort 5
- new adult 4
- sweet/gentle hero 3
- white collar heroine 3
- shy hero 3
- competent heroine 2
- independent heroine 2
- young adult 1
- cheating 1
- height difference 1
- childfree 1
- tortured heroine 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- death / grief 30
- abuse 10
- past abuse 6
- suicide / ideation 3
- alcoholism 2
- past child abuse 2
- terminal illness 1
- geography
- michigan 8
- usa 6
- north america 3
- Format
- Audiobook
- first person pov 17