January Andrews is a romance author, but what happens if she doesn’t believe in Happy Ever After’s anymore?
Augustus Everett is a serious literary author, but does life always have to be so serious?
January and Augustus are not going to get along, but they might have more in common than they think. Both are struggling with writers block, and both need to have completed best sellers by the end of the summer.
So, ensues a bet. To swap genres, and see who can get their book published first.
Is one summer long enough to learn how to write, and live, a little differently?
This is the first title I have read by Emily Henry, I requested it on NetGalley on a bit of a whim thinking it would be a fluffy romance, the perfect escapism. But what I got was a little more than the usual light heartedness I was expecting.
There was a great connection between the main characters, their conversations were full of quick witted banter which quite often made me laugh out loud. I really enjoyed the dry sarcasm the author used to convey the attraction between January and Gus.
I loved the setting of the house and American lakeside town, Henry described the surroundings so well it was an ease to imagine the beautiful and quaint Hallmark-esque location.
This story is quite different to most in the rom-com genre, it addresses some difficult themes such as grief, mistrust and physical abuse. I felt the author dealt with these sensitive subjects very delicately, they were given the gravitas they deserved with a subtlety that meant the overall story wasn’t weighed down by them and the carefree feeling lost.
I will definitely be looking at reading more from Emily Henry in the future.
** Thanks to Penguin Books (UK), via NetGalley, for this ARC **
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