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He doesn’t believe in happy endings.
She’s lost her faith that they exist.
But could they find one together?
January is a hopeless romantic who likes narrating her life as if she’s the heroine in a blockbuster movie.
Augustus is a serious literary type who thinks true love is a fairy-tale.
January and Augustus are not going to get on.
But they actually have more in common than you’d think:
They’re both broke.
They’ve got crippling writer’s block.
They need to write bestsellers before the end of the summer.
The result? A bet to see who can get their book published first.
The catch? They have to swap genres.
The risk? In telling each other’s stories, their worlds might be changed entirely…
Review:
I honestly have no words for this novel. It is a virtually perfect romance. January and Gus are both published authors who find themselves in neighboring beach homes hoping to break their writer’s block. They write in different genres (he in lit fic, her in romance) and decide that if they switch to each other’s genre, they will break their creative dry well. But what starts as a very clever plot twist ends up being a depiction of deep friendship that turns into a love that challenges and heals them. January and Gus come with so much baggage and it is beautiful – and at times painful – to see them come at these ghosts of their pasts (and present!) to find love. There is a little bit of everything – rivals to friends to lovers – but also heavy issues revolving around parental relationships, abuse, and cancer. Each piece is orchestrated perfectly in the service of creating beautiful, complex characters full of chemistry and wit. This is a debut and it completely blew me away. One of my favorite romances of 2021.
ARC provided by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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