Rating: ...Literally Marvelous.
Summary:
After the death of her father, January Andrews, a romance writer, retreats to the beach house he owned with a secret mistress. Struggling with her grief and the realization that her father was not the man she knew him to be in life, January attempts to overcome her writer's block and re-center her belief in love. Cue Augustus Everett, her neighbor, and also an author of traditional "literary fiction." Determined to overcome her impending cynicism and prove the value of romance in art, January challenges Augustus to a bet where each writes a story in the other's genre.
Lindsay's thoughts:
I am Augustus Everett-a trained literary snob who had no idea how good romance can be. Emily Henry does such a beautiful job of sneaking up on the reader, bashing them over the head with traditional romance tropes, and dragging them into the well-decorated lair of a love story. I never wanted to leave this plot. There are some heavy storylines involving infidelity, death, and cults; and yet, like life, it is able to find joy in the little moments. Henry doesn't tell the reader why romance novels should be considered true art in the literary canon, she shows you. I'm a forever convert to this genre because of this book
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