My Thoughts On: The True Love Experiment by Christina Lauren.I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. This book is surprising, engaging, and truly unputdownable. There are also tender moments that’ll have you crying (at least… I cried, but I cry at everything). There’s loads of character development, the banter is quick and addicting and will make you laugh out loud. Gus will write a romance and January will pen the next Great American Novel. One thing leads to another, and they end up challenging each other to write in the other’s genre. Oh, and he also happens to be her rival from her university days.
I don’t want to give anything away, so to be purposefully vague, I’ll just say she ends up in a beach town in Michigan living next door to Augustus Everett, acclaimed novelist of literary fiction. The story centers on January Andrews, a romance novelist who hasn’t been able to write since she discovered, at her father’s funeral, a pretty shocking secret he was keeping from her. I struggle finding these types of books and feel so lucky when I come across one because they’re my favorite.
For me, it’s one of those novels that straddles the line between women’s fiction and romance. Everyone will finish a book and no one will fall in love. 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). 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. 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. When she pens a happily ever after, he kills off his entire cast. January Andrews writes bestselling romance. Augustus Everett is an acclaimed author of literary fiction.
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