The Tulipped Girl

When it is dark and as cold as it has been I cannot lie, I very often like to turn to books set in the summer. It helps me to look forward to what life will feel like in just a few short months: sticky skin, tan lines, loud music, sand in your shoes and of course, reading by the water. It at times feels like the only thing making all the shoveling and cold nights worth it in the end if we can just make it to the summer. And this book completely transported me! 

Um hey Emily Henry I would like to know how you are able to create such beautiful chemistry between people that I don’t even know? I mean I was genuinely shocked. I felt like I was watching the development of two good friends of mine, I was so invested in their story it was pure magic so heres the rundown if you are looking for a description of your favorite future read:

January Andrews and Augustus Everett are polar opposites. January is a romance bestseller who wraps every book up with a happy ending and moves through her  life as a “fairy princess”. While Augustus writes as a self proclaimed realist and has no issue with letting his characters die as a tie off to the end. The only thing that connects the two is their past as students at U of M and even there they were textbook enemies. They were never set to get along which was completely fine for the two as January went on to live in New York with the light of her life and Augustus went on to continue with his “girl of the month” practice for relationships…like I said polar opposites.

But when January moves into her dads lake house in North Bear Shores, Michigan one warm night, she encounters a grumpy neighbor who plays his music way too loud and seems to be wallowing in his sorrows just like January, our now broke and single not really writing-writer. Augustus, facing a similar writer’s block has a very awkward meet-cute the next morning with his former rival and the two realize they have now a couple more things in common than they thought as the two struggle with writer’s block. They eventually come to make a bet with one another, trading their ideas and genres styles between one another as a means to hopefully to strike up creativity in one another. Whoever wins gets sponsorship from the other on their book and a couple of other PR perks. But whatever they do for the bet (dates, research, line dancing, interviews etc) they MUST NOT FALL IN LOVE which is easy enough for these two given they can’t stand each other anyway…ha!  

If you like to get excited about the summer with books dedicated to the warmer months like me, trips to the beach and Fourth of July fireworks this book takes place on a lake but I can assure you it will be the perfect Beach Read!