Book Review: People We Meet on Vacation

Ok, so men written by women are not real, but if anyone knows a guy like Alex Nilsen please send him my way. The whole time I was reading this book I had a big stupid grin on my face. I’m not usually a huge romance reader because I don’t love to read pages and pages of spicy scenes. In People We Meet on Vacation, there was spice, but it wasn’t the point of the book, which I really appreciated. Ultimately, I found both characters relatable in some way, and I loved the exploration of how opposite personalities are sometimes more compatible than expected.

One of my favorite parts of this story was getting to travel the world with Alex and Poppy, as well as watching them grow and change over a period of roughly 12 years. They met so many interesting people over the years, and I loved seeing some of those characters pop up in multiple phases of their lives.

Additionally, this book has some of the most popular tropes. Who doesn’t love a friends-to-lovers story paired with a one-bed trope?

This book felt well-balanced and well-written. I loved it enough to pick up more Emily Henry books in the future, so let me know which one I should read next in the comments.

Book 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?