January is a hopeless romantic who narrates her life like she's the lead in a blockbuster movie.
Gus is a serious literary type who thinks true love is a fairy-tale.
But January and Gus have more in common than you'd think:
They're both broke. They've got crippling writer's block. And they need to write bestsellers before summer ends.
The result? A bet to swap genres and see who gets published first. The risk? In telling each other's stories, their worlds might be changed entirely...
I read Emily Henry's later books before this, so I can understand why some people were disappointed with them after Beach Read. They definitely have a different tone.
I thought it wouldn't like this book, but ended up really enjoying it. It was touching, had me tearing up at times, and the insights on literature/the life of an author were interesting.
Hey guess what I continue to read contemporary romances even when they aren't my thing I DON'T KNOW WHY.
Anyway, this one was well written and emotionally engaging and not too cheesy, but tbh I was really just into the main characters' shared backstory that they were super obsessed with each other in undergrad but each thought the other hated them and Gus was such a teenage boy that he couldn't relate to her in any other way than criticizing her writing because he thought that showed that he took her seriously but she just thought he had contempt for her and January was so committed to not letting him know how much she was into him that she just refused to look at him and then one night they couldn't keep their eyes off of each other and BOOM goes the chemistry and then they can't keep their hands …
Hey guess what I continue to read contemporary romances even when they aren't my thing I DON'T KNOW WHY.
Anyway, this one was well written and emotionally engaging and not too cheesy, but tbh I was really just into the main characters' shared backstory that they were super obsessed with each other in undergrad but each thought the other hated them and Gus was such a teenage boy that he couldn't relate to her in any other way than criticizing her writing because he thought that showed that he took her seriously but she just thought he had contempt for her and January was so committed to not letting him know how much she was into him that she just refused to look at him and then one night they couldn't keep their eyes off of each other and BOOM goes the chemistry and then they can't keep their hands off of each other. THE MUTUAL PINING OF IT ALL. Yeah. Loved that.
