My favorite one by Emily Henry, hands down!

I don‘t know what hit me more: the rivals-to-lovers trope, their painful pasts and them overcoming them, the way these two connected over a bet, the Taylor-Swift-You-Belong-With-Me-video type of notes they had for each other, all their conversations, the against the bookshelf scene (iykyk), all their conversations or just the fact that all of that was put in one book and made perfect sense. Beach Read really managed to give me everything I never knew I craved, and was filled with so many emotions that were slowly and beautifully untangled it was hard not to love every single page of it.

January and Gus are truly a perfect match for each other. The mutual understanding, the constant support for each other, the growth they go through together - it was beautiful to watch them throughout the book. But not only did I love them as two characters finding to each other, but also separately, they were fantastically written characters. Both of them needing to face their problems and issues caused in the past, not only in order to overcome writer‘s block but also to be able to face forward to a life filled with happiness. These two really knew how to make me feel everything, and when I say everything, I truly mean every thing. I laughed, I giggled, I was close to crying, I got emotional, angry, and then happy again. Gus, in particular, had me gasping more often than I should probably admit. I could keep reading about these two. Which actually happened to become a truth when I found out that the UK edition of this book has a different ending scene than the US (yup, don‘t ask me why). I surely loved to read both endings as they fit the characters and their journey so well, so I won‘t be able to name a favorite. And the fact that there‘s an extended epiloge? I‘m screaming. (You can find it on Emily Henry‘s website, it‘s called Layover)

Overall, I can‘t name one thing I disliked about this one. I‘m still very high on all the love I feel for this book. Emily Henry has definitely become a new favorite author of mine as I was devouring her books, Book Lovers and People We Meet on Vacation, and I can‘t wait to hold any other upcoming titles by her in my hands.