Gus and January are both stuck with major writers block, so they strike up a challenge: January must right a serious novel and Gus must right something with a happy ending. Gus is a dark, no-romance, ‘serious’ writer who has earned much acclaim for his work. A grieving January heads to this “lovenest”for the summer with hopes of using the time to pen her next novel and clear out the house.īut when January discovers her sort-of college rival, Augustus Everett, lives next-door to the lovenest, her whole summer is turned on its head. But after the death of her father, everything changes when she is given the key to his secret beach house that he shared with another woman during his marriage. January Andrews is a romance writer who has always believed in love. Luckily, my cousin had a copy of Beach Read with her, and it felt too enticing to pass up. I’d made the horrific mistake of only bringing one book for a day trip to the Jersey shore and finishing it midday.

Beach Read came to me, as it should, on the beach.

Beach read book review