Now I do! It took me a while to write this review because I really wanted to marinate in the book a bit. I didn’t know there were that many ways to describe dark eyes. January might not have a problem with that as she’s just had the worst year of her life.Įventually Gus and January get closer and Emily Henry becomes slightly obsessed with describing Gus’ dark eyes. At first they butt heads, they make assumptions about one another but gradually bond over their writing and writer’s block and the bet they make to trade genres: which of course means that Gus will have to write a romance with a happy ever after and January will have to write a “dark and brooding book”. Gus writes dark, nihilistic novels with no happy ending in sight. The lead male author/character, Augustus Everett is the same “Sexy Evil Gus” whom January went to college with and had a rather one-sided rivalry with. Emily Henry says it much more brilliantly. There are some excellent quips and monologues by the lead female author / character, January Andrews, who writes women’s fiction with happily ever afters (which is very meta and which I cannot quote as I read an advance copy) about women’s fiction and how it’s ridiculous that it’s a separate category from just plain FICTION because the person writing it doesn’t have a penis. You get the cake and the veggies all in one. There is a substantial depth to this book, as if you’re eating a really wonderful, sinfully delicious meal that is also somehow good for you. It’s about two writers working through soul-crushing writer’s block and grief, betrayal and deciding to manage it all by switching things up and trying one another’s genres all while investigating a horrible suicide cult. Beach Read is not your typical “Beach Read” as the name and delightful cover implies.
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