People We Meet on Vacation (Unabridged)
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4.1 • 2.1K Ratings
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Publisher Description
NOW A NETFLIX FILM! • 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?
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
A longtime friendship stands at the crossroads of something more intimate in this breezy, emotionally astute rom-com. Travel writer Poppy hasn’t spoken to her best friend, Alex, since a disastrous vacation a few years back. Now stuck in an unfulfilled rut, she’s convinced that her happiest moments in life all came down to their summers spent traveling together. So she reaches out with a proposal: one more trip, just the two of them, to set things right. We loved hearing them rebuild their connection through alternating timelines, revealing how a decade of shared adventures deepened their relationship into something neither of them can quite define. Emily Henry tells their story through the quiet details of their shared jokes, awkward silences, and missed chances. The dialogue is both emotional and full of banter, and narrator Julia Whelan conveys both the humor and the warmth. People We Meet on Vacation is a love story that shows how sometimes romantic chemistry isn’t instant—it’s earned.
Customer Reviews
Fave EH novel so far :)
Cute and quick moving! Very likable characters, doesn’t fall prey to the infuriating miscommunication troupes but journeys through what could be a real, evolving relationship dynamic were all familiar with.
Only hang up was the way narrator pronounces “chaise lounge” (as “chaise longue”) which might only mean I’ve been saying it wrong forever? lol
Lesson learned….
Listen to the bad reviews. This was hard to get through. I wanted to read this before watching the movie but regretted buying it a few chapters in. I only finished it because I hate quitting.
Mediocre
This book was all over the place, ended up being pretty good.