Beach Read
Readers rate it 3.9 (1.5K on Hardcover)
401 pages · Released May 19, 2020 · Penguin
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A note for parents
Beach Read is an adult contemporary romance novel featuring two main characters navigating creative blocks, grief, and personal growth over a summer. While the tone is lighthearted and often humorous, the book contains sexual content including several scenes of intimacy, moderate profanity, and references to trauma including a death cult and past abuse. The emotional core is resilient and hopeful, but the content is decidedly adult-oriented.
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From the publisher
FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FUNNY STORY! 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. As featured in The New York Times Book Review ∙ Entertainment Weekly... FROM THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FUNNY STORY! 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. As featured in The New York Times Book Review ∙ Entertainment Weekly ∙ Oprah Magazine ∙ Betches ∙ Shondaland ∙ Good Morning America ∙ The New York Post ∙ Good Housekeeping ∙ CNN ∙ and more! 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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- Fiction
- Loveable Characters
- Strong Character Development
- Not Diverse Characters
- Character driven
- A mix driven
- Weak Character Development
- Diverse Characters
- Unloveable Characters
- Emotional
- funny
- hopeful
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ISBN 9781984806734 · Penguin