“Beach Read” by Emily Henry

Don’t let the title fool you, this is not a book about a vacation set on some tropical beach. “Beach Read” by author Emily Henry is set on the shores of Lake Michigan as January rolls into town after inheriting her father’s beach house upon his death. After discovering that her father was living in the house with his mistress, January decides to spend the next few months clearing it of its belongings and getting it ready to sell while hopefully tackling her writer’s block and finishing her next book. If having to live in a house that brings up confusing emotions wasn’t bad enough January discovers that her college nemesis and fellow author is her next door neighbor. Augustus Everett is the extreme opposite of January. She writes love stories and happy endings and he can only conjure up the dark aspects of life. When tensions come to a head between the two a challenge is proposed. Both authors would drop their current genres and adopt the other’s for their next books. In order to do this they would take each other on a series of research trips and whichever author’s book sold first determined the winner. Helping each other through writer’s block as well as complicated past traumas the two begin to navigate a friendship that neither saw coming. If you love yourself a good rom com you should add this to your TBR list immediately. “Beach Read” is a perfect, feel good (and slightly steamy at times) book to dial out from life’s current stresses.

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