If you love depressing, funny, angsty read's with a semi HEA (or a Happy for Now) ending, then this book is really going to be for you. Do NOT let the cover and description fool you. This book is not the light fiction one brings to the beach for entertainment. This book is the type of book that takes some concentration and patience to finish... well unless you love reading about the misery of others.
This novel was a very well written book that sometimes overdid the darker emotions--at least for me.
Both of our protagonists have come from 'difficult' homes (one more so than the other). They knew each other in college and, after nearly ten years, meet up again by the coincidence of living next to each other (meet-cute). One writes women's fiction/romance the other writes 'important' books...they agree to switch genres and a sort of romance blossoms. Meanwhile, there is a secondary plot of January's deceased father and what appears to be his lifelong lover, who happens to live in the same town as January recently moved to, who is taking care of her late father's estate.
January's life had horrible ups and downs, and the down is what brought her to the start of this novel. Gus's life was just one long down until he met up with January again and learned to be happy in the NOW.
Satisfying but dark.
*ARC Supplied By the Publisher.
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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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