3.5

People we Meet on Vacation

Emily Henry
Book
July
2021

Review:

I didn’t love this book, but I didn’t hate it. This one was fine while reading it until about halfway through, where I think I got used to the writing style and all the time changes. Some of those things did make it a little challenging to get into, but it also allowed me to digest the book a little more. The characters were great, and I really related to the main character Poppy, but I found some things a little off-putting. First, I loved how she wrote friends to lovers because sometimes that gets a little boring, but this was amazing!! Ok, now for criticism, I found the characters a little 2-dimensional, and their reasons for not being together seemed insignificant, but I have also never been in a position like that, so maybe I am wrong. I also did not love the ending and how he didn’t say yes right away, but I think that is primarily because of the authors writing style. This author clearly is great at friends to lovers and should stick with that; her first book was enemies to lovers, which was less deep and emotional. It is a fantastic book, and it is a great beach read.

Trigger Warnings:
Physical injury & illness including pneumonia, Death of a mother due to childbirth complications mentioned, Death of a pet mentioned

Synopsis From Book:

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?
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