There were moments when she actually was funny, and so I’m willing to let that one slide. Poppy occasionally got on my nerves for the sin of believing herself to be hilarious. The question is essentially this: if two long time will-they-or-won’t-they best friends will finally get together?
It’s cute, but there’s little conflict and the overall trajectory is pretty clear considering the genre expectations of a romantic comedy. At first glance, it’s not clear what the stakes are. Her characters are witty enough (nothing earth shattering, but enough for an occasional laugh) and relatable.Įnter People We Meet on Vacation.
It embodied what a lot of my 2020 reading list looked like - solid, dependable, about four stars but could be five stars if it hit me at the right time. Last year, I read her adult debut, Beach Read, and both loved it and the buzz it brought to the book community. I read Emily Henry’s YA debut, A Million Junes, around when it came out and liked it well enough. What could possibly go wrong?įrom the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together-lay everything on the table, make it all right. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. 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. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends.
She has insatiable wanderlust he prefers to stay home with a book. Novel: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry | Bookshop
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