People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

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Jun 26

Description

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers and Beach Read comes a sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.

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?

My Review

I finally got around to this book and I was so excited to read it. The start of the summer seemed like the perfect time to read it. I loved Beach Read by this author and was confident I would feel the same about this book. Unfortunately, that was not the case at all. I did not like the characters, they got on my nerves and to me me, it felt like they were entitled. The back and forth of the timeline drove me crazy and I found myself not knowing what period of time we were in throughout the story.

This fell flat for me and I was disappointed. I gave this book 2 crowns.