The second I started reading, I was hooked and couldn’t put it down, but it was a book that while I was devouring it, I was also feeling so many things at a core level. If you were on the fence about it because of the hype, don’t even worry because it was absolutely worth the hype! It’s not often that a romance book like this packed such a heavy hitting punch but this book totally does it. Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. 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). 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. 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. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. SummaryĪ 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.Īugustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction.

I picked it up one sunny afternoon in April and two days later at 6 am I was done reading it.

five months ago no one had been buzzing about this book when the pitch email came in, but it sounded cute and my spring calendar was open so I decided to give this one a go.įlash forward to April and suddenly everyone and suddenly everyone is dying to read this book and people who have read it are raving about it! Suddenly it became imperative for me to read this one as soon as possible! Before this book was everywhere, it was in my inbox.

Beach read january