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A romance writer who no longer believes in love and a literary writer stuck in a rut engage in a summer-long challenge that may just upend everything they believe about happily ever afters.
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.
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I am not sure if Romance genre isn't for me or Emily Henry isn't.I have been a fantasy girly through and through for years. I heard the glowing reviews that come from Emily Henry and decided to try a couple books. I have yet to read book lovers.There was nothing inherently wrong with this book. The start dragged a bit with flashbacks. I didnt care about that and was bored and almost DNF'd. I finally got to some decent plot. It was a fast easy read after that. But a month later I can barely remember anything. Generic romance between 2 authors? I think "romance" as a plot line just doesn't interest me at all. I like fantasy with a romance sub-plot or even some Mafia Books but romance still isn't the main plot line.I will try Book Lovers before I give up on this.3.5 Stars
la relación de January y su papá se sintió como un reflejo muy cruel de la que tengo con el mío, que también murió hace unos meses. aunque amé a Gus y no entendía sus problemas de comunicación, fue la relación con su papá lo que más me impactó. en todo caso, fue una buena lectura.
I enjoyed this book, I have to be honest and say it wasn’t that much into the book, it took me a long time to finish it. But I liked the story, the characters, they were complex but very honest, I loved January, her mild disbelief in love after what happened when she found out about her father. And I loved Gus, his complete disbelief in love for his whole life. I like that they found and made each other better, they were able to trust each other. College rival then neighbor, that was a great idea, I loved Gus’ personality, I think I thought this was going to be a rom-com but it isn’t like that, maybe that’s what I missed the most.