Genre: Romance / Contemporary / Chick Lit
Book Type: Physical
Author: Emily Henry
Pages: 384
Publisher: Berkley (May 19, 2020)
Book Description:
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.
Thoughts:
I absolutely loved this book! It was the perfect romance/drama/beach read. It had a lot of substance, but was also mainly upbeat that made for a good “feel”.
I enjoyed reading how January viewed the world in “Happily Ever Afters,” as I tend to have a very “rose colored sunglasses” view of the world, in always wanting to see the positive. She was so easy for me to relate to, but I loved how she was challenged when her world came crashing down around her. There are always times when our lives don’t go as planned, but I liked that she held true to who she was and found her way back to her beliefs.
I liked that the book was able to show both sides of viewing the world (both positive and the hard-to-imagine). It did a good job showing why Gus viewed the world as he did (and my heart broke for him and wanted to give him a hug), but that he didn’t let himself be defined by his upbringing. January was able to bring about a softer side in him, while Gus was able to open January’s eyes to a world that doesn’t always end happily.
I highly recommend this book. It was a great presentation of love, heart-break, pain, loss, forgiveness and understanding. It was written beautifully and left my heart happy.
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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