People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

e-Audio, 10:46:46
Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Release Date: May 11, 2021
Published by: Berkley Books
Read from: June 29-July 3, 2021
Stand-alone
Source: Overdrive Audio
TW: 
For Readers Interested In: Non-linear timeline, Friends to Lovers, Contemporary Romance, Adult

     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?
     From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.

*MY THOUGHTS*

After Beach Read was one of my favorites last year, I knew I needed to give this one a try too. And just like Beach Read, this one was pretty close to perfect. I loved the characters, the setting, and the way the story was written. Definitely what I wanted at the time.

Poppy and Alex are best friends. They have been taking a trip every summer for ten years. Until they don’t. Something happened and now they haven’t been on a trip in two years. Now Poppy has everything she could ever want, but she still feels like she’s in a rut. She wants to get back to when she was lastly truly happy… Which is the last time she was with Alex on their trip. So she does the only thing she can think of…. She invites him on another trip that he actually agrees to. Can they come back together and find the friendship (and maybe more) that went missing those years ago?

The characters in this were my favorite part of this. Poppy killed me. I legit laughed out loud with some of the things she was saying lol I can’t lie, me actually laughing out loud at books now is a rare occurrence, so finding one that actually makes me do it is like gold. Definitely made me want to just go back and listen to Poppy’s parts alone lol As for Alex, I loved the contrast he brought to Poppy. He was the sane to her crazy. (And there was a lot of it lol) The two of them together as friends and together was also interesting. I loved seeing how they transitioned to being together. Definitely the magic of reading a friends to lovers romance. There wasn’t a large jump and I enjoyed that.

The writing style was another reason I got sucked into this. I normally don’t like books that bounce back and forth from different times because they get confusing, but this one was pretty easy to follow. It went back in time and then came back to the present. I enjoyed seeing Poppy and Alex as their younger selves grow into just another version of the same person lol

The romance itself was also cute. I would have liked to see more of them together tho. Maybe it was the fact that they were friends and we got to see them together that way and the author thought that would suffice, but yeah no. lol Not for me anyway. I LIVE for the swoony moments. Whether its natural to the story or not lol (Don’t mind me I’m just being a pain in the ass) But overall, I loved that they were opposites and that this one had one of my favorite romance troupes, friends to lovers.

This book had some of everything that I like, so it’s no surprise that I fell for this one. I like the way Emily Henry writes her YA, but I have been having a BALL with her adult reads as well. I can’t wait to see what else she’s going to write for her adult crowd!

Overall, I give this