Review: Beach Read
Living two days without network connection was an abso-freaking-lute nightmare. Like bruh, what was I supposed to do on the weekends without network connection? Partly was glad was spending the day at my friends'.
Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast.
They’re polar opposites.
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.
Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
They’re polar opposites.
In fact, the only thing they have in common is that for the next three months, they're living in neighboring beach houses, broke, and bogged down with writer's block.
Until, one hazy evening, one thing leads to another and they strike a deal designed to force them out of their creative ruts: Augustus will spend the summer writing something happy, and January will pen the next Great American Novel. She’ll take him on field trips worthy of any rom-com montage, and he’ll take her to interview surviving members of a backwoods death cult (obviously). Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. Really.
QUICK THOUGHTS AND REVIEW: 3.7/5, TWAS RELAXING AND I FELT DETOXED I GUESS.
Possible Trigger Tags:
1. Cheating
2. Extra-marital affairs
3. Mentions of Divorce
4. Mentions of death
5. Mentions of cancer
WHAT DID I FEEL ABOUT THE BOOK'S:
1. Writing Quality: I love the writing quality though, it's really nice and it flows well and it does not cause me trouble while I'm reading. I mean, I usually read on my laptop since it's harder to sort of keep your attention on the phone without actually hurting your head or hurting your eyes, but I guess it's fine. I read the whole of this book entirely on my phone and that means something, right? That means, that the writing was really easy going and not too complicated to hurt my eyes. Yeah, that's what I mean.
2. Character Development: Character development, well, I kind of like it but don't like it at the same time. Except for Augustus and January falling in love, there wasn't much of a development between the two. I love it when Augustus and January are together, they're bestselling writers, each trying to live out the world that they had seen growing up, and they're always competing, critiquing each other's stories and I love that. Complete academic rivals to lovers vibe which is absolutely awesome for me because that trope is rad. But personally, I can't feel any development from January or Augustus. It's like, they're these jigsaw puzzles with missing pieces and you have to imagine those missing pieces to make them complete. It's not like they're unidimensional, it's just that they do not completely come off as characters to me.
3. Couldn't put it down- Ness: 6/10, I guess? There wasn't much to do but read the novel so I just simply read it.
4. Plot Twists: There's like only one plot twist. One that mentions that he's married. I actually didn't see that one coming, because the last thing that I could have thought of Augustus being, it definitely wasn't him being married. I kind of saw Augustus as the happy-go-lucky person who'd be with a person for a span of maximum 5 weeks, a bit double standard for me, but women have been put on double standards long enough. But yeah, it did come off as a shock to me when I found out that Gus was a person who was actually capable of commitment. So yeah, shocker.
5. Plot: I do like the plot, a mix of past academic rivals to lovers and present enemies to lovers. Both tropes are equally combustive, and you know shit's about to go down when both the tropes are present. There's an instant chemistry that happens when Gus and Jan meet and it's like this sexual tension that's so fricking that you could cut it with a knife. Plus, the both of them being authors kind of makes this book really relatable for me because sometimes, sometimes I go through the same stuff. When I'm actually writing, though. I haven't actively written since August 2021 because I had to look into my studies. Man, I can't believe I'll be starting college this fall. Waoza.
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