Book Review: People We Meet on Vacation | Emily Henry

The Stats

📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚

BOOK: People We Meet on Vacation

AUTHOR: Emily Henry  @emilyhenrywrites

Publisher: Berkley Books 

Stars: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ + 🐢 (took me longer than normal)

Published: May 18, 2021

https://amzn.to/3dRrQME

The Review

✨ The Title/Cover Draw:

• I was on the fence about Beach read, but this plot sounded interesting so I decided to give it another try. I got this early release from @bookofthemonth

💜 What I liked:

• Poppy is a likeable yet flawed character and Alex can’t communicate effectively. This makes for some truly human issues and avoidance. I also really loved reading about Poppy’s travels in the book.

😱 What I didn’t like:

• I don’t know if it was me or the story but this book took me longer to read than others. Sometimes I couldn’t connect with the stories and that made me lag. The writing was good though so it may have just been me.

💁‍♀️ The Characters:

• Poppy and Alex met in college and have been taking vacations as friends every summer as part of Poppy’s blog and (in the present) her job. There are some unexplored feelings there that should be explored. 

🚦 The Ending:

• Very Sweet

💭 Consider if you like:

• Romances that are “will they, won’t they.”

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own. 

📘 Summary:

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?