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Beach Read
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2020-05-19
- Rating
- ★ 3.9 · 1287 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
- Spice
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January Andrews, a bestselling romance writer who no longer believes in love, and Augustus Everett, an acclaimed literary fiction author stuck in a rut, end up spending a summer in neighboring beach houses, both broke and struggling with writer's block. Striking a deal designed to break them out of their creative ruts, they agree to swap genres: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the Great American Novel. She brings him on rom-com-style field trips, while he takes her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult. Over the three months together, their opposing approaches to writing—and to life—begin to give way to unexpected attraction, despite their agreement that no one will fall in love.
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- Forced Proximity: “for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block” source
- Romantic Comedy: “She'll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage” source
- Enemies to Lovers: “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” source
- Slow Burn: “Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.” source
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