Book guide
Beach Read
Two blocked writers—one cynical, one hopeful—make a summer bet in neighboring beach houses and risk falling for each other in the process.
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About Beach Read
Augustus Everett writes 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.
Reading signals
- Spice
- Medium
- Darkness
- Balanced
- Pacing
- Balanced
Content warnings
- grief
- death of parent
- cheating/infidelity
- cancer
- alcohol abuse
- car accident
- child abuse/neglect
- child death
- suicide cult
- physical abuse
- sexual content
