People We Meet on Vacation

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers and Beach Read 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?

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400 pages

Average rating: 7.05

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Ali Nurmikko
May 14, 2024
8/10 stars
Kitschy-cute, light-hearted, feel-good read. A predictable romance that I loved each moment of. Made me laugh and smile. Just plain ol’ easy-to-read-good book.
D. Roden
Apr 25, 2024
10/10 stars
The first time I read this in 2021, I gave it a 3 star. Today it is a 5 star. Why? Who knows!? lol. This is a good reminder though that books hit you differently in different seasons. Right now the world is so intense and dark, and I am here for a low stakes rom-com to take me out of reality. Alexander The Greatest is my favorite character for this novel, followed by his cat named “Flannery O’Connor.” And the trope of “friends to lovers” might b...read more
Anonymous
Apr 20, 2024
6/10 stars
I think friends-to-lovers is just not my favorite trop and the whole thing lacks excitement for me
Fantasyfangirl
Apr 13, 2024
8/10 stars
I preferred Emily Henry’s debut novel to this one. It was still entertaining but I was annoyed with the main characters starting at about page 50 for not just being honest with each other.. but I guess that would make a much shorter book.
kmcsurdy
Feb 03, 2024
9/10 stars
Super cliche and predictable, but the reason I rated it so highly is because I loved the characters and thought it was a quick, fun read, perfect for vacation, and exactly what I was looking for at the time.

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