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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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This was a nice refreshing and cute read! I loved the best friends turned lovers aspect and found both poppy and Alex very relatable. I found myself smiling a lot at this book and the stories they have together over the years. I actually felt a lot of parallels to my own relationship - I am a more introverted person than my husband and early on I always felt like there was so much different between us but somehow he was the person I felt the most comfortable with and had the most fun with. I felt it when we first met in college and i knew I wanted to be with him through all of the ups and downs. life can be boring about 95% of the time because life can’t all be adventures so the reality of this love story was refreshing. I liked the storyline and the characters quite a bit but there was just no real spark with this book overall so I definitely enjoyed but its not one of my all time favorites from Emily Henry.
I’m a big fan of the “meet cute, opposites attract, we didn’t realize how much we loved each other” romantic comedy movies. And after reading some heavy fiction and nonfiction I wanted some thing light to read and this fit the bill. The story is cute, even if it is predictable. And the characters are likable. The witty banter was great but sometimes it was too much and I felt like I was reading a romantic comedy script as opposed to an honest to goodness conversation between two people who are skirting their feelings for each other because of insecurities and fear. In many ways it was a retelling of when Harry Met Sally and several of those other romantic comedies in which the men and women are friends and deny their feelings for each other until the big sweeping running through the rain or across the parking lot or through the airport climax. There wasn’t much that was original or different other than the way the story was told as it jumped back-and-forth over their 12 year friendship. It’s a perfect beach or pool-side read.
I thought it was a cute book! I love the friends to lovers trope and how the author wrote in the backstory as well!
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