People We Meet on Vacation

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?

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400 pages

Average rating: 7.04

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paigehenderson
Oct 22, 2024
9/10 stars
I loved this book!! truly was so hard to put down and had such an intriguing story line
ljzsreadsandreviews
Oct 22, 2024
8/10 stars
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.
Kierstencora
Oct 10, 2024
6/10 stars
3.5 ⭐️

Thought this was a really cute book but in comparison to her others it wasn’t my favorite. Still would definitely recommend :)
joss94
Oct 03, 2024
7/10 stars
12 years of friendship!!!! and you are telling me they stop talking for 1 drunken kiss .
The miscommunication was a big part of this book. LOVE Alex and Poppy but this book took me a while to like it. I started like it around chapter 18
MissKarissa17
Sep 17, 2024
10/10 stars
So far this was hands down my favorite Emily Henry book. If he’s not Alex I DON’T WANT IT!

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