People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry – Review & Giveaway

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Description:
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?

 

 

Review:

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry is a standalone, friends to lovers novel. Poppy, our heroine, has a successful career in New York, writing about inspirational trips.  Every year, Poppy invites her best friend Alex, to take their summer week long trip to somewhere different each year. They rarely see each other the rest of the year, as Alex lives far away in their old home town, Linfield.  Poppy and Alex are very different; she is bubbly, wild, gregarious, fun and a wanderer; he is reserved and an introvert, who prefers to stay home and read.

The story switches back and forth between the past 12 summers and the present.  Two years ago, something happened in their last trip, with Poppy and Alex not talking to each other since then.  Poppy realizes that something is missing in her life, as she is not happy, and knows it is Alex she misses.  She is determined to fix things, and texts him to go on a summer trip to right things between them.

As we follow each of their previous trips, the witty banter between Poppy and Alex creates wild crazy, at times exciting adventures; as well as each sharing their own romantic conquests, which never stay the same.  This is a slow burn friends to lover romance, which becomes more apparent in the present day, while they take their expected last trip together.  Though some of the trips were funny, I did find some of it a bit slow, pushing more to the present.  I did love the last 1/3 of the book, which was in the present, but for the most part, I did not feel the bond between them through most of the book.

People We Meet on Vacation was a fun friend to lover trope, which had some humorous moments, as well as very good characters.  This was well written by Emily Henry.

Reviewed by Barb

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