Nothing could possibly go wrong…right?Īs an aspiring author, I really enjoy reading books with authors as characters. January will write the next great American novel, and Gus will exchange killing the cast for pairing them up instead.

After a disastrous book club event, they make a deal: They’ll trade genres. But she never expected that her college nemesis-slash-crush, Augustus Everett, would be living in the house next door. So she’s going to spend the summer in her father’s beach house overcoming her writer’s block. There’s only one problem-she’s a romance writer, her next book is due, and she’s broke. Now she wants nothing to do with happy endings. Before she realized that her carefully cultivated life had been a lie. January Andrews loves romance, loves love, and loves happily ever afters. This isn’t a lighthearted, cute read, but it was absolutely the perfect book for the last week of summer. So many people loved this book, and after reading it, I can see why. I love reading contemporary romances in the summer, and when I started seeing Beach Read all over Instagram, I knew this had to be on my TBR this summer. Really.įirst Thought After Finishing: I wish this book had more pages! 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. Goodreads Summary: 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.Īugustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction.

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