Reading Beach Read by Emily Henry was a fun, light hearted experience which my romance hating self needed. I have always been disappointed by romance novels because they enforced overused stereotypes and if not problematic, simply had bad writing.

But Henry's take on this romance novel feels like the romance genre's ascent into the hands of millennial and genZ readers who craved for something light hearted to forget their overbearing life schedules. It is also the author's quest to be taken seriously as a woman writer, whose female protagonist ends up finding a man who does not just love her with all his heart, but respects her art too. In Augustus Everett, Henry creates a man who accepts the vulnerability of a young woman navigating her personal and professional life.

Emily Henry's Beach Read (quite an amusing title, I think- ) doesn't go much up in the steamy scale, but her subject matter is as adult as it gets.

5 stars. This is the kind of romance novel we need more of.