Beach Read by Emily Henry

I thought this book was fantastic. It came highly recommended on Modern Mrs. Darcy's Summer Reading Guide, and when I finally was able to get it from the library, I breezed through it in less than a day. It was such a fun read about a girl who writes romance novels but who has lost her faith in happy ever afters and is stuck, unable to write any more of her genre. She moves to a beach house on Lake Michigan and is dismayed to find out her next-door neighbor is her old college writing rival, who has become a literary fiction darling and who is also stuck with his own writing as well. They make a bet to swap genres and to see if they can write something the other one would be able to write. And they--spoiler! (or maybe not so much, it's pretty obvious)--also fall in love. The romance scenes here were a little open-door for me. But I liked the insights into how the writing process worked for these two authors, and I did love both of the characters and their romance and how they became interested in each other. This was definitely a fun read, and not as fluffy as it looks (although it was mostly a romance).