Beach Read by Emily Henry, the hottest, most perfect summer read
“When I watch you sleep," he said shakily, "I feel overwhelmed that you exist.”
Author
Emily Henry
Publisher
Penguin Books
Genre
Romantic Comedy
Number of Pages
361
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Summary
January, a romance writer, has just settled in at her father’s vacation house. Her father, who passed away a year back and whom she had recently discovered had a mistress. She’s nursing her aching heart and suddenly finds that her neighbor is none other than her literary rival at school – Augustus Everett.
Gus always hated her kind of writing, or so she thought. While things start warming up between the two, they decide that they should switch genres and bet about whoever sells their book first owes the other. They decide to meet on weekends to train each other in their style of writing, and the growing proximity uncovers ugly truths of their pasts but also changes their lives forever.
My Review
Delightful. The perfect recipe for a perfect romantic comedy. Plus the characters, especially January was given much more depth with her complexity of emotions and were shown to have a very realistic thought process in all the matters. I felt this was more than any other romantic comedies I’d read had to offer, where the characters were always superfluous and only bubbly and joyful. And always were disproportionately mad with their love interests.
Final Verdict
All in all a good one-time read. A weekend well spent. But I don’t think it was a brilliant piece of writing, based on all the hype it received. Don’t think this is going to my re-read list.
Who Should Read This
Romance readers will definitely love this one. If you want a light-read with the perfect dose of romance this is a good pick.
Emily Henry
Emily Henry writes stories about love and family for both teens and adults. She studied creative writing at Hope College and the now-defunct New York Center for Art & Media Studies. Find her on Instagram @EmilyHenryWrites.
- Top Quotes from Beach Read -
- “That was what I'd always loved about reading, what had driven me to write in the first place. That feeling that a new world was being spun like a spiderweb around you and you couldn't move until the whole thing had revealed itself to you.”
- “And that was the moment I realized: when the world felt dark and scary, love could whisk you off to go dancing; laughter could take some of the pain away; beauty could punch holes in your fear. I decided then that my life would be full of all three.”
- “I’ve never met someone who is so perfectly my favorite person.”
- “When you love someone,” he said haltingly, “. . . you want to make this world look different for them. To give all the ugly stuff meaning, and amplify the good. That’s what you do. For your readers. For me. You make beautiful things, because you love the world, and maybe the world doesn’t always look how it does in your books, but . . . I think putting them out there, that changes the world a little bit. And the world can’t afford to lose that.”
- “That’s the key to marriage. You have to keep falling in love with every new version of each other, and it’s the best feeling in the whole world.”
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