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BOOK review
Started on: 1 May 2022
Finished on: 14 May 2022
Finished on: 14 May 2022
Title: Beach Read
Author: Emily Henry
Publisher: Berkley
Publisher: Berkley
Pages: 361 pages / 380 pages (e-book)
Year of Publication: 2020
Price: Rp 110,000 (https://www.periplus.com/)
Rating: 4.5/5
Year of Publication: 2020
Price: Rp 110,000 (https://www.periplus.com/)
Rating: 4.5/5
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"I'd been so comforted by books with the promise of a happy ending, and I'd wanted to give someone else that same gift.Gus was writing to try to understand something horrible that had happened to him. No wonder what we wrote was so different."
January Andrews writes bestselling romance novels with happily ever afters who no longer believes in love after what she discovered about her parents. While Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction who tends to kill off his entire cast. They're polar opposites, but one thing they have in common is that they're living in neighboring beach houses and bogged down with writer's block. Until one evening, the two of them decided to do a challenge 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 a rom-com montage, and he'll take her to interview surviving members of a death cult. During the time spent together, both January and Augustus slowly opens up about their past that brings them closer to one another.
"Happy endings don't happen to everyone.There's nothing you can do to make someone keep loving you."