- People We Meet on Vacation

📖 People We Meet on Vacation ✍🏽 Emily Henry 🎶 Robyn • Hang With Me I will never understand how a woman who has made two avid readers and who reads frequently to my niece is not a reader herself. I’m talking about my mom. She says she’s too busy, but with a little incentive (saying I’ll wait to watch the movie with her) and a buddy read, I've finally convinced my mother to finish a book in less than a month. Now I’m going to trick her into reading even more! My review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I think I might be Alex and Poppy’s child? I thoroughly enjoyed this book; it was lighthearted, witty, sweet, and just what I needed. Was it predictable? Yes, but aren’t all romcoms? That’s what’s so warm and satisfying about them. Alex and Poppy's best-friendship to lovers felt like a slow burn, but otherwise it wouldn’t have felt as real. The author showcases each of the main characters' flaws while also highlighting how complementary they were to one another. The characters were relatable, the setting(s) were fun (I mean, TRAVEL!), amazing banter, great character development, and beautiful, descriptive writing. Definitely When Harry Met Sally vibes. What can I say? I’m a sucker for friends-to-lovers. Mom’s review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ (She does voice-to-text, so it’s not as cohesive) It gave me great insight into the characters. Made me like both of them even though such opposites. Very well described personalities, both were sweet and likable!!! I liked the travel ideas. How they did it on a budget and made it fun, and how their friendship survived even though they were very different people, they tolerated their differences, even though they had separate ideas and passions, and maintained their friendship. Also, it was very funny!!!! It made me root for them to get together throughout the story I really liked it!!!

I know some serious literary writers and readers don’t take Emily Henry very seriously since she’s a romance writer, but on a technical level, her writing is damn good. Here’s a few examples. She uses metaphors well. This one is simple, but very fitting for the character’s personality—“Alex’s shoulders life, like he’s a turtle retracting into his shell.” Other times, we get short but deep character observations that could totally be in a literary novel. “I should’ve guessed what a cautious driver he’d be. Then again, sometimes when you guess about people, you end up very wrong.” There are also so many brilliant bits of humor in this book that Henry uses. There’s a running joke between the two main characters about the terrible, old Honda Aspire they borrow, about how it aspires to have working air conditioning, aspires to live long enough to see the end of human suffering, though it probably won’t live long enough to see the of the Star Wars franchise. Henry’s funny characters are actually funny to read about and it makes the novel a very fun journey. I also think Henry is very smart about how she involves side characters in her books. She knows her audience and she doesn’t waste too much time on supporting characters, so she comes up with clever ways to have minor characters that need to exist for plot logic to add to the tension of the story. For example, the two other people they’re sharing an Uber with are honeymooners in bedazzled visors that say WIFEY and HUBBY who are “so tanned already they look something like Alex’s shoes.” It’s simple, but so effective. A silly detail like the cringey visors tells us exactly who these two strangers are and what kind of people they are in a comical way. It’s a romcom with romcom hijinks, but Henry really does a beautiful job of exploring Millennial ennui and the emotional complexities of travel, with all its highs and lows. She also digs into career satisfaction in a very interesting and wise way. Spark notes; I have a soft spot for romcoms and Emily Henry is the real deal with her craft.

Great book ! I think it is a lot better than the movie ! Funny and interesting characters, a beautiful friendship that becomes something else !

I reread this after a long time because a series is coming out and I wanted to refresh my memory. This was the first book by Henry that I ever read, and the one that convinced me to follow her in all her future publications. I love her writing style, the way she builds her stories, and her characters. She never disappoints!

وصل بحاله جداً جيدة و فقط ضرر خفيف عند الحواف. الغلاف جميل والكتاب مرن اما الروايه نفسها قيمتها ١٠ من ١٠ ، جداً حبيتها بدايتي مع هالكتاب ما كانت من احسن البدايات ، و حتى اني نوعاً ما كرهت أول فصلين بسبب كثرة حديث النفس. مع تقدمي مع احداث الكتاب اكثر شيء جذبني هو الكيمياء و الصداقه بين اليكس و بوبي "حرفياً من افضل الصداقات اللي قرأت عنها! " ارتباطي العميق بالشخصيات هو اللي سبب لي كل الألم و المشاعر اللي حسيت فيها خلال قرائتي للأحداث . و شيء ثاني ساعدني في اني احب هالروايه و هو اني وقعت بالحب مع اليكس و دائماً ما كنت اتسائل عن وجهة نظرة خلال وقوع الأحداث. الروايه مو من النوع اللي تحصل فيها أحداث قوية أو يملأها الحماس و الإثارة لكن اللي يعوض هالجانب هو طريقة كتابة الشخصيات و الديناميكا بينهم و اللي اشوفها من اكبر نقاط قوة الكتاب. فيه أحداث كان مفترض انها تكون "غامضه" و "مثيره للتساؤل" في أي رواية أخرى لكن في هالروايه كانت مكتوبة بطريقة سهله التوقع لكن هالشيء ما يسلب شيء من متعة الكتاب وعشن كذا اشوف هالكاتبه عبقريه في الشيء اللي هي تسويه. مثلاً كان سهل التوقع انه بوبي و اليكس يحبوا بعضهم لكن مستحيل كنت راح اخمن مشاعرهم و افكارهم و كيف انها راح تأثر فيني رغم اني أعرف نتيجة كل هالأحداث ، و مثل اللي صار قبل سنتين كان مفترض يكون اكبر شيء غامض بالكتاب لكني توقعته بسهوله من البداية و مع كذا الحدث أثر فيني بشكل كبير. اكثر شيء كان يخلي العقدة في هالكتاب صعبة الحل هو الطبقات العميقه في علاقتهم ، العبء الكبير للماضي و العواقب اللي ممكن يحملها المستقبل من بعد انهاء صداقة ١٢ سنه. حبيت كيف انه الكتاب يوضح انه العلاقات الحميميه ما تعتمد على الحب و بس و انها تأثر على جوانب اخرى مثل الأحلام و الأهداف المستقبليه ، الزواج و العائلة ، الوظيفة و مكان المعيشة. حبيت كيف انه العقدة كانت صعبة الحل علي كقارئة رغم انها تبان بسيطة سطحياً ، وهالشيء نادراً يصير معي في الكتب من هذا التصنيف. حركة جميلة من الكاتبة انها وضعت سؤال في جزء النقاش نهاية الكتاب كان بمعنى انه " هل بوبي و اليكس ستستمر علاقتهم ؟ " و بالرغم من اني كنت حابه اشوفهم يتزوجوا في النهاية و يعيشوا بسعادة و سبات ونبات زي كل القصص الخيالية الا اني برضو حبيت انها حطت مجال للنقاش عن مصير علاقتهم بدال ما تسوي المعروف والشائع بكل الكتب. جداً حركة عبقرية من كاتب لما يجعل قصته موضوع مثير للأهتمام للنقاش و التأمل. قرأت جزء كبير من الكتاب وانا حاسه بألم في صدري وضيقه من كثر ما اني مرتبطه بالشخصيات عاطفياً و هاذي من العلامات اللي تخلي اي كتاب تقييمه عالي بالنسبه. طريقة السرد مو مثاليه "حسيت بالملل احياناً" لكني استمتعت بأغلب الروايه حرفياً من اكثر الكتب اللي سمعت عليها اراء سلبيه لدرجة انها نفّرتني منها لفترة طويله ، لكن سعيدة بأني اعطيتها فرصه لأني استمتعت فيها كثير و متحمسه اقرأ اعمال اخرى للكاتبة

Este livro é fenomenal e foi uma delícia lê-lo durante as férias! O Alex e a Poppy são perfeitos um para o outro! O anseio, o desejo e a paixão, as piadas internas e a química incrível entre eles fizeram eu me apaixonar por eles desde o primeiro capítulo. A forma como eles conheciam e entendiam um ao outro foi de tirar o fôlego! Um romance lindo que encheu meu coração de alegria!

Super nice summer read