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People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

296 reviews

savvyrosereads's review

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

Rating: 4.5/5 stars

Alex and Poppy are polar opposites but best friends who take an annual Summer Trip together…until one summer goes wrong and they stop speaking for two years.

Yes, it’s true, I’m finally back in my Emily Henry era and this time I refuse to stop until I’ve finished her entire backlist. Fortunately, that’s no hardship, because I’m convinced EmHen is one of the genuinely great writers of our time. Her prose is so beautiful and her stories are so meaningful, and I absolutely devoured this book.

I do wish these doofuses had just TALKED TO EACH OTHER more and sooner, but overall this was so good, their chemistry was so engaging, and there were also so many laugh out loud funny moments that I had a great time. Absolutely highly recommend!

CW: Mentions of death of parent; past bullying

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isxelle's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional reflective 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

3.5

one thing about emily henry is she is going to drag me through EVERY SINGLE EMOTION.... including boredom (not really an emotion but just roll with it). IM SORRY. i think it just happens to me when we jump from past to present in books. i be skimming most of those past pages to get back to the present. all the present pages i quite liked though.

also i think this book made me knock down my love for friends to lovers by few good pegs.

the girl bsf vibes in this were just ew.

emily henry probably did it the best anyone could do with a trope (?) like that though. i would be pissed as sarah but honestly FUCK sarah bro.

that woman fucked up my boy alex. she literally traumatized him with those last words she threw in. now he is going to constantly have to work over this fear SHE CREATED.

ugh alex. after that first trip, this man was GONE. HIS WHOLE LIFE has been about her since that moment. ugh. this man watched her fear of being pregnant by some other guy NOT EVEN HIM. NOTHING had even transpired between them yet. AND HE GOES OUT and gets a FUCKING VASECTOMY. idk if it was emotional cheating but god did it feel like it. good thing he realized and ended things with sarah immediately

this might be the only book where i would have actually liked an epilogue that included

them having kids.

it's more of an epilogue of them working toward what they want, and i wanted an epilogue where they already GOT what they wanted and i am seeing them then. ah well

some of my highlights and quotes below

“He goes on, quiet and controlled once more. “I want all that stuff my brothers have,” he says. “I want to get married and have kids and grandkids and get really fucking old with my wife, and to live in our house for so long that it smells like us. Like, I want to pick out fucking furniture and paint colors and do all that Linfield stuff you think is so unbearable, okay? That’s what I want. And I don’t want to wait. No one knows how long they get, and I don’t want ten more years to go by and to find out I have fucking dick cancer or something and it’s too late for me. That stuff is what matters to me.”” - Alex Nilsen

““You could have always looked,” he says in a low voice. “Just so you know.”
“Well, you could’ve too,” I say.
“Trust me,” he says. “I did.””

“God, Poppy, of course all of it was because of you. Everything is because of you. Everything” - Alex Nilsen

“I’ve been trying to stop loving you since that night you went inside to make out with the pothead water taxi driver.” - Alex Nilsen

““No,” he says, “what it makes me is someone who was embarrassed to still remember exactly what you were wearing the first time I saw you, and what you ordered once at McDonald’s in Tennessee, and who needed to preserve some small measure of dignity.”” - Alex Nilsen

““I meant it, and I knew I meant it,” he says. “It wasn’t an impulse. I knew for years that I loved you, and I thought about it from every single angle and knew what I wanted before I ever kissed you. We went two years without talking, and I thought about you every day and I gave you the space I thought you wanted, and that whole time I asked myself what I’d be willing to do, to give up, if you decided you wanted to be with me too. I spent that whole time alternating between trying to move on and let you go, so you could be happy, and looking at job postings and apartments near you, just in case.”” - Alex Nilsen

“I’m not a vacation from your real life,” he says. “I’m not a novelty experience. I’m someone who’s been in love with you for a decade, and you should never have kissed me if you didn’t know that you wanted this, all the way. It wasn’t fair.” - Alex Nilsen

““I’m afraid of you realizing I bore you. Or meeting someone else. Or being unhappy and staying. And . . .” His voice catches. “I’m afraid of loving you for our entire lives, and then having to say goodbye. I’m afraid of you dying, and the world feeling useless. I’m afraid I won’t be able to keep getting out of bed if you’re gone, and if we had kids, they’d have these horrible lives where their amazing mom is gone, and their dad can’t look at them.”” - Alex Nilsen

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gracescanlon's review

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emotional hopeful reflective 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? Yes

4.0

What in the contrived-barely-a-reason-not-to-be-together…?

Still, adorable, and I’m a little mad about it. How can the thing keeping these two apart be so DUMB, but the book be enjoyable enough to earn 4 stars? Ugh. I’m annoyed at myself for seeing this book’s glaring flaw and liking it anyway, and I’m annoyed with Ms. Henry for charming me enough to do so.

4 stars — begrudgingly.

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bookswithbethx's review against another edition

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emotional funny relaxing 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

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celestepaed's review against another edition

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adventurous funny lighthearted 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? Yes

3.75

It’s a fun and engaging book. The banter between the main characters is great and I caught myself smiling a lot. I think the tension grew at a consistent even pace but it felt a little too one sided. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but I prefer it when the love interest puts up a little more resistance than what was done here.

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abidavisf's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective 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

Emily Henry and Julia Whelan are the ultimate book dream team. How Whelan manages to capture the world that Henry creates and bring it to life so vividly is astounding. I feel a part of the story and, when I’m not listening, I’m thinking about everything I’ve heard and what I’ll hear next.

You and Me (People We Meet) On Vacation is a beautiful tale of love, found family, friendship and, dare I say it, millennial ennui. It teaches its readers that there is more to life than the goals we are taught to aspire to in our life, that, though we’ve been taught that these things will bring happiness, it is 1. not a failure to not achieve them and 2. they are not the only thing that can make your life worthy and your presence valuable.

Poppy and Alex have a piece of my heart, and they always will.

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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

4.0

Overall I liked the characters and the story. I liked the build up of the romance but mixed in with the very real life situation of right person, wrong time. I knocked off a star because of all the mentions of he's so big and I'm so small and because miscommunication tropes are kind of over done.

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laura227_'s review

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adventurous emotional inspiring lighthearted slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.75

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memoirsofabooklover's review

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funny hopeful lighthearted 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

3.0

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nineinchnails's review

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adventurous emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad 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

5.0

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23/12/2023

they could never make me hate u <3333

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first read: 13/07/2021

was crying almost the whole way through i love poppy and alex so much

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