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Kaitlyn‘s review of The People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Romantic Comedy published by Berkley 11 May 22

I’m an Emily Henry fan. It’s the Meg Ryan rom-com parallels that really get me. There’s a lot of When Harry Met Sally vibes in this one and I’m here for it.

Ms. Henry knows how to write relatable characters and keeps the witty banter coming in a steady stream.
The jumping timelines slightly annoy me. And I don’t like being kept in the dark about Croatia – come on, Emily, just give us the deets! It is pretty obvious what happened, but I still want everything confirmed early on. I’m not a patient person.
I loved this book a lot, though. Can all Emily Henry books immediately be made into movies? Because I’d watch this and Book Lovers on repeat. I can’t wait to read Beach Read soon.

Grade: A

Summary:

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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