“Happy endings don’t matter if the getting there sucks.”
Genre: Romance
Actual Rating: 5+ stars
Content Warning: Discusses death, divorce, cancer, and violent cults, mentions of cheating (but not from the main characters).
“Beach Read” follows January Andrews and Gus Everett, two former university classmates-turned writers, as they fight through some writer’s block in a small beach town by Lake Michigan. Both fighting different demons, they embark on small adventures as they venture outside of their writing styles as well thanks to a small bet between the two competitive writers. This is a book for romance-lovers and cynics alike.
I… I understand the hype. That’s all I can say. January and Gus were lovely characters, but so were all the supporting characters. I don’t know who I grew to love the most: January or Gus or Pete or the Labradors or the Labradorite (which is actually a really pretty stone, Google it). It is beautifully written, as Emily Henry transports us to that small town feel. It is heartbreaking, as both January and Gus grow as people. It is healing, as every loose knot is tied in the end.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a heavy but heartwarming story, with a very very very HEA.
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“Your mother has been a lot of people in the twenty year I’ve known her, and I’ve had a chance to fall in love with every single one of them, Janie. That’s the key to marriage. You have to keep falling in love with every new version of each other, and it’s the best feeling in the whole world.”
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