Emily Henry's Beach Read
I think I saw Emma Straub recommend this and immediately put it on hold at the library. It’s a contemporary romance about a romance author with writer's block (due to the emergence of various family secrets that have shaken her faith in LOVE), who moves to a beach house in Michigan where her next door neighbor is none other than her hot creative writing class rival from college, now a successful author of literary fiction. So of course they end up having a bet where she will write a “serious” novel and he will write something with a happy ending, and they will spend their weekends researching their genres together. It’s a cute premise and the author makes it mostly work. I really liked the protagonist, but the love interest's childhood trauma is kind of glossed over, and the very end didn’t work for me. But this was a fun read for sure. B+.
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