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People We Meet on Vacation
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Funny Story 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?
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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4 stars!
Poppy and Alex are best friends that spend every summer together. If it be ritzy or the cheapest trip imaginable, they have spent it together. When an entanglement between the two of them happens during one summer trip, they are left with not knowing what this means for their friendship and decidedly stop talking for two years. Fast forward to the current summer, Poppy is in a rut with work and when told to look back at her life to discover what made her happy, she realizes her summer trips spent with Alex were just that. She texts Alex up and conjures a trip that just so happens to perfectly coincide with Alex's brother's wedding. As they spend this trip in hotter than hell Palm Springs, California, they are forced to talk, work out their issues and figure out what they want to do with their lives.
To me, this book is slower than the rest of Emily Henry's books. I'm not talking about the romantic aspect of it, I just mean it is written a little slower. I really enjoyed both characters. I see a lot of myself in the two of them. Very early on we see why our characters are the way they are and during each summer trip, we get little snippets that callback to their upbringings. I do feel like there could have been a few less summers. It almost felt repetitive. With all that said though, I still really enjoyed this book, the characters, and their relationship.
Poppy and Alex are best friends that spend every summer together. If it be ritzy or the cheapest trip imaginable, they have spent it together. When an entanglement between the two of them happens during one summer trip, they are left with not knowing what this means for their friendship and decidedly stop talking for two years. Fast forward to the current summer, Poppy is in a rut with work and when told to look back at her life to discover what made her happy, she realizes her summer trips spent with Alex were just that. She texts Alex up and conjures a trip that just so happens to perfectly coincide with Alex's brother's wedding. As they spend this trip in hotter than hell Palm Springs, California, they are forced to talk, work out their issues and figure out what they want to do with their lives.
To me, this book is slower than the rest of Emily Henry's books. I'm not talking about the romantic aspect of it, I just mean it is written a little slower. I really enjoyed both characters. I see a lot of myself in the two of them. Very early on we see why our characters are the way they are and during each summer trip, we get little snippets that callback to their upbringings. I do feel like there could have been a few less summers. It almost felt repetitive. With all that said though, I still really enjoyed this book, the characters, and their relationship.
So good, reminds me of the movie âWhen Harry Met Sallyâ a bit. A beautiful story told at such a good pace. Love that the characters work on themselves first before really committing to each other.
More like 3.5 for me. The book started off great. I was enjoying the light, beachy feel of it but about 70% in that's when I started to lose the excitement. The ending felt rushed and not able to fully develop like the beginning of the book. Once they got together, I knew that something I wasn't going to like was going to break them up. I personally am not a fan of third-act break ups, so for me it kind of ruined the book for me a little. It took it from a 4-4.5 to a 3.5 stars.
4.5/5 - I love that thereâs no pretense that these two characters arenât absolutely obsessed with each other. This story isnât the âdoes he or doesnât heâ trope. Itâs a story about two people with their own baggage trying to figure themselves out before they figure out how to fold their lives together, while being each otherâs best friend in the process. This book is also hilarious and witty and silly. Poppy might be my favorite Emily Henry protagonist. I loved how the author weaved stories from past summers in so that you felt like a part of Poppy and Alexâs inside jokes. I devoured this book, reading it in the car on a road trip like I used to when I was young: by the fading light of the sun, hunched over so that any light from the street would allow me to read just a sentence more.
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