After reading that detail, my instinctual reflex was to want January to stay as far away from this man as possible. Early on, January explains that Gus was a sort of conceited hot-shot in the creative writing department and even once (gasp) mocked her short story before reading it in workshop.
The two promise no real romance between them this summer, but with research field trips, book clubs, and messages passed through the windows of their neighboring beach houses, there is a chance that January and Gus will end the summer with more than just finished manuscripts.īeach Read is for readers that love the occupational influence on the plot of The Love Hypothesis, the setting of The Summer I Turned Pretty, and the journey of escaping life to reconnect with oneself in a novel like Jewels of the Sun.įrom the perspective of a woman in a creative writing program, I’ll say the very concept of this novelist romance was, initially, hard for me to grasp. 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.
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