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cielosiluminado'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
3.0
It’s fascinating. How so much of love is about who you are with someone.
i really wanted to love this because poppy and alex were so cute and funny. but sadly i personally can’t rate it higher because of the lack of communication being the reason why they went 2 years no contact + 12 years in total of being in love with each other but doing nothing. it was so frustrating when reading and learning more of their background/relationship, and seeing how blatantly the lack of communication made them (and me) suffer.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Alcohol
Moderate: Bullying and Grief
Minor: Animal death, Drug use, and Death of parent
sophiestbr's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content and Alcohol
Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Death, Drug use, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
fire_wolf's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying
Moderate: Death of parent
Minor: Drug use
kingsnail's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
How does Emily Henry always manage to share beautiful art that makes me feel things? And how does she write these beautiful and complex characters with years of history and inside jokes in a believable way?
This story always hits close to home for me in ways that I don’t fully understand. Yes, it includes mutually in love and terrified best friends (🙋♀️), and yes, they both decide they would rather have the other in their life forever, even if it means that they wouldn’t be a couple (🙋♀️), and they are fully accepting, understanding, and accommodating of the others social preferences and mental illnesses (🙋♀️), but it goes beyond that for me.
Feeling ashamed of but fiercely protective of quirky family, not feeling at home anywhere, not knowing what you want in your future.
What makes you who you are? How do you know who you are or what you want? How does the mortifying experience of allowing someone to know and love you fit in with figuring out who you are?
I sob through the epilogue and the revelations Poppy has about learning who you are and who you can be as a person or as a couple, being wholly known by someone, and how even when they aren’t the best versions of themselves, they always love the other and never want them to hurt
This story always hits close to home for me in ways that I don’t fully understand. Yes, it includes mutually in love and terrified best friends (🙋♀️), and yes, they both decide they would rather have the other in their life forever, even if it means that they wouldn’t be a couple (🙋♀️), and they are fully accepting, understanding, and accommodating of the others social preferences and mental illnesses (🙋♀️), but it goes beyond that for me.
Feeling ashamed of but fiercely protective of quirky family, not feeling at home anywhere, not knowing what you want in your future.
What makes you who you are? How do you know who you are or what you want? How does the mortifying experience of allowing someone to know and love you fit in with figuring out who you are?
I sob through the epilogue and the revelations Poppy has about learning who you are and who you can be as a person or as a couple, being wholly known by someone, and how even when they aren’t the best versions of themselves, they always love the other and never want them to hurt
Content Warnings
Moderate: Bullying and Death of parent
Minor: Pregnancy
literarypenguin's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
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
5.0
People We Meet On Vacation was a lovely story about two best friends over a decade of friendship realizing that that friendship might be becoming more than that. It shows how they both deal with these growing feelings and how far they are both willing to go to give this a chance.
I adored the different vacation spots and settings we got in this book, how Poppy & Alex got to travel to different locations. How diverse these locations were and truly beautiful these places are! I wish I could go to some of these places myself. The vacations were also important to showing the development of their friendship over the years and how they became friends and eventually lovers in the end of the book.
Poppy was such a free spirit and bubbly character! I loved her thrill of adventure and wanting to see the world. It was such a sharp contrast to Alex's more reserved and organized nature. They were truly two people who nobody would ever think of as friends but they made it work super well. It was an opposites attract situation and a true friends to lovers written beautifully well! The tension was great and the banter between them really was funny and had me laughing out loud at parts.
I also loved the ending of how both of them had to make a compromise if they wanted to give this relationship a chance, how sacrifices had to be made to be with each other if that is what they truly wanted. I loved this book and is one of my favorite friends to lovers books ever!
I adored the different vacation spots and settings we got in this book, how Poppy & Alex got to travel to different locations. How diverse these locations were and truly beautiful these places are! I wish I could go to some of these places myself. The vacations were also important to showing the development of their friendship over the years and how they became friends and eventually lovers in the end of the book.
Poppy was such a free spirit and bubbly character! I loved her thrill of adventure and wanting to see the world. It was such a sharp contrast to Alex's more reserved and organized nature. They were truly two people who nobody would ever think of as friends but they made it work super well. It was an opposites attract situation and a true friends to lovers written beautifully well! The tension was great and the banter between them really was funny and had me laughing out loud at parts.
I also loved the ending of how both of them had to make a compromise if they wanted to give this relationship a chance, how sacrifices had to be made to be with each other if that is what they truly wanted. I loved this book and is one of my favorite friends to lovers books ever!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Sexual content, and Death of parent
Moderate: Drug use, Grief, and Pregnancy
Minor: Animal death
thisiswhy_wecanthavenicethings's review against another edition
emotional
inspiring
lighthearted
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.5
I actually wrote a really long review but it got deleted so i am rewriting a shortened version.
I really enjoyed this book, and loved the relationship between Alex and poppy. I felt like some of the problems from the beginning were ignored by the end. I really liked seeing the vacation scenes but felt there were a bit too many. I think the Croatia scene should have come earlier, by the time it was introduced it was painfully obvious what had happened and I didn't care anymore. I would have liked to see Alex's pov since he is known as being guarded and even Poppy didn't really know his emotions. I liked how there wasn't really any/graphic smut.
I really enjoyed this book, and loved the relationship between Alex and poppy. I felt like some of the problems from the beginning were ignored by the end. I really liked seeing the vacation scenes but felt there were a bit too many. I think the Croatia scene should have come earlier, by the time it was introduced it was painfully obvious what had happened and I didn't care anymore. I would have liked to see Alex's pov since he is known as being guarded and even Poppy didn't really know his emotions. I liked how there wasn't really any/graphic smut.
Content Warnings
Minor: Bullying, Infidelity, and Pregnancy
jenniferbowman's review
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content
Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
Minor: Drug use, Mass/school shootings, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
smileymiley550's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Bullying, Death, and Death of parent
barbarianmissy's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
So I know I said that Funny Story was my fav Emily Henry, and I STILL ADORE AND LOVE THAT BOOK, but this one just hit different.
Alex and Poppy’s story just felt so genuine and sweet and you could really feel the history and friendship and care that went into their relationship. The book spanned over a decade and you really got to watch them grow with each other and understand themselves all the more through it. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL OK?!?!
I loved it very very much.
Alex and Poppy’s story just felt so genuine and sweet and you could really feel the history and friendship and care that went into their relationship. The book spanned over a decade and you really got to watch them grow with each other and understand themselves all the more through it. IT WAS BEAUTIFUL OK?!?!
I loved it very very much.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Bullying, Cursing, Sexual content, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol
blewballoon's review
adventurous
emotional
funny
reflective
tense
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
4.5
I went into this not really being in the mood for another contemporary romance and also having heard nothing good about this book. I picked it up used a couple years ago because I knew Emily Henry was a popular author, but then everyone I talked to who has read her books said this was their least favorite. I put the audiobook on reluctantly in the car, assuming I'd probably DNF at some point, and then I found myself laughing within the first 10 minutes. I get why Emily Henry is so popular, it's deserved. There is so much texture to all of the characters and to the world that make them feel more like real people in a real place. The writing is clear and immersive. I thought the format of having the current events interspersed with the snippets from the vacations Poppy and Alex had taken over the years was done really well. Friends to Lovers is probably my favorite romance trope, and this book nailed it. The audiobook narrator was great. Can't wait to read more Emily Henry now if this is apparently the least good book?
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content and Alcohol
Minor: Animal death, Bullying, Drug use, Grief, Death of parent, and Pregnancy