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Beach Read by Emily Henry

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Purchase on Amazon πŸ–‰ Rating : 5/5 πŸ–‰ Spice: 0/5 πŸ–‰ Plot : 5/5 πŸ–‰ Primary Genre : Contemporary Romance πŸ–‰ Blurb : Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Readers' Favorite Romance (2020) 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....

Friends to Lovers by Sally Blakely

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Purchase πŸ–‰ Rating: 5/5 πŸ–‰ Spice: 0 πŸ–‰ Primary Genre: Contemporary Romance πŸ–‰ Plot: 5/5 πŸ–‰ Blurb: Always each other’s plus-ones, but never each other’s real dates, two childhood best friends have one last summer wedding to fall in love in this dual-narrative debut—a grown-up The Summer I Turned Pretty. Best friends Joni and Ren have been inseparable since childhood. So when Joni moves across the country for her job, the two devise a creative way to stay in they’ll be each other’s plus-ones every year for wedding season, no matter what else is happening in their lives. It’s a tradition that works, until a line is crossed and the friendship they once thought was forever is ruined. Now Joni is back at their families’ shared summer home for her sister’s wedding, and she’s determined to make the week perfect, even if it means faking a friendship with Ren—and avoiding the truth of why they have to fake it in the first place. How hard can it be to pretend to be friends with the person who ...