BEACH READ was a good one! I thought it was cute and romantic with interesting characters. Augustus, a literary fiction writer and January Andrews, a romance writer are college rivals/enemies and they find themselves neighbors in beach houses on Lake Michigan.⠀
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January is coming to terms with the truth about her family, and Augustus has never fully recovered from his family. Both are tasked with writing a book for their publisher, but making no progress. They make a bet to write the others genre so happily ever after January has to write a literary fiction novel and sell it to the publishers and moody Augustus has to write a romance and do the same. They plan field trips for each genre to teach the other and these outings bring them closer together but also force them to face some harsh realities.⠀
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I thought their field trips were really sweet and I loved their chemistry. Enemies to lovers is always a fantastic trope! This novel was funny, sad, and romantic all in one. It’s hard watching characters come to terms with loss, grief, and a painful truth but as they discovered you can’t spend your life worrying about having a happy ending, you need to be happy for now.⠀
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Trigger warnings: child abuse, domestic abuse⠀
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The characters were very interesting, but January was also so angsty omg. There was a lot of “true love doesn’t exist because my dad made one mistake” and “ugh my dad gave me this awful beach house on a beautiful lake but this sucks” so while for me it didn’t take away from the book too much I can see for others how it might. I gave this book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Stars.⠀
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My six word review:⠀
Facing the truth hand in hand⠀
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