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You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry

4 reviews

diana_raquel's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

“But most of us are too scared to even ask what we want, in case we can't have it.”

That's it!
Friends-to-lovers it's not my favorite prompt! And this book proves it! The only reason why I'm giving this book a 3.5 stars rating is that I liked the interaction between Poppy and Alex as friends. And I think that I'm being a little generous here. Look, I know that the end game of the book is romance, but do they have to be a couple? Why couldn't they reconnect and stayed friends?

I admit that, at first, even knowing that this was a friends-to-lovers story, I was having fun. I was entertained. I liked the writing style and I have to say that the characters are well-developed. Another thing that I really liked was the non-linear story because, that way, I felt like we were knowing more about the characters and kept the reason why Alex and Poppy were no longer friends a secret for a little more time. However, Alex's love for Poppy seemed a little on the obsessive side. Not to the point of being a red flag, but it's a little creepy. And that put me off.

So I would not recommend this book, but I'm willing to read Book Lovers. Maybe I'll like it!

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cutepatzie's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

One word BOYFREAD GOALS. It was such a light and fun read. Charakters was an awesome story also was amazing. And the romance was so sweet. Not many times we can meet such an amazing ML in the book and I also adore an FL. Good book.

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the_disreputable_dog's review against another edition

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funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

One sex scene in the book. It was a great sex scene, too, don't get me wrong, but just the one? Really? The characters were extremely well done, and I loved them a lot. They were sweet, and I found Grumpy Alex very relatable, and it made me enjoy their scene all the more, but only one? I feel like we got short changed. I'm gonna blame the publisher for keeping it down to one, because we did get plenty of time oogling Alex's hot body. I would recommend this book either way, because the actual romance and couple are done really well, and I found myself really rooting for them. I was so into it, I actually fell asleep reading and had to go back to where I remembered stuff the next day. (I read the audiobook of this. If anyone was wondering, based on that audiobook, it appears I slept for roughly half an hour with it going lol.)

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carleyhall's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

I really wanted to love this book as much as I loved Beach Read, but it just didn’t do it for me. I genuinely love the friends to lovers trope so much, but something here was just missing. In my opinion, Poppy was a wonderful character and I loved her. But Alex… I wasn’t sold. Perhaps the problem was in that the reader only gets Poppy’s perspective, but

nothing in the whole novel convinced me that Alex was in love with Poppy the entire time, like nothing… at all. I felt like with Poppy, there were very obvious hints and at some points, she straight up admitted to herself that she was in love with him. So then, at the airport for Alex to act like she decided to love him on whim and he had loved her all along drove me absolutely crazy.

I didn’t feel their chemistry at all and the explicit scene was completely ruined by the

vasectomy conversation… like what was the point of that, it read as creepy quite honestly.

In the end this book felt to me like

Poppy and Alex ended up together by circumstance, not because they were really perfect for each other or even just good for each other in the slightest, it truly felt like an obligation for the both of them. Poppy’s emotional journey apart from Alex, though granted he did have a part in helping her realize it, was the only saving grace for me.

The pacing of this book also drove my completely crazy and made it quite hard to get through. Anyways, I loved Henry’s work on Beach Read and am hopeful for her next novel despite my distaste towards this one.

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