What I'm Reading || Beach Read - Southern State of Mind Blog by Heather

First things first, while the title oft this book is called “Beach Read”, this book doesn’t actually take place at a beach. So once you get past the fact that the title is a bit mis-leading, you can enjoy it! If you like rom-coms and summer romances, this will check those boxes. I enjoyed it while I was reading it, but honestly it is not a story that is sticking with me so I wouldn’t say I loved it.

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BEACH READ

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.

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