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leannanecdote's review against another edition
emotional
funny
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
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Bullying, Sexual content, Grief, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Animal death and Pregnancy
bzliz's review
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
3.75
I have some seriously mixed feelings here. On one hand, I had a good time reading this and I do think Poppy and Alex are wonderful together. On the other, I can’t help but think about how downright irritating they would both be if they were real and I think their situation would be borderline toxic. They are a special kind of codependent that is somehow both sweet and infuriating at the same time, which gives me pause, but then Emily Henry redeems both of them in my eyes by putting them both in therapy! That’s my number one comment about a lot of book couples- get your ass to therapy- and this time they both did the damn thing!
I also might be in the minority for this but I think the book was well paced and I liked jumping between the current time and the progressive timeline of their relationship over many, many vacations. The passing of years showcased how much they meant to each other and, for me, how it became scarier to admit their feelings over time because they each had so much to lose if it went wrong.
I also might be in the minority for this but I think the book was well paced and I liked jumping between the current time and the progressive timeline of their relationship over many, many vacations. The passing of years showcased how much they meant to each other and, for me, how it became scarier to admit their feelings over time because they each had so much to lose if it went wrong.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content and Alcohol
Moderate: Bullying
Minor: Drug use and Pregnancy
redefiningrachel's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
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
3.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Vomit, Death of parent, and Pregnancy
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
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
lianaet's review against another edition
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This was my first Emily Henry read and I'm obsessed. I've not read a lot of contemporary romance still but wow this had me obsessively reading like I do with fantasy books. Granted, I borrowed it on Libby which gave me a "skip the queue" copy for only 7 days so I had a time pressure.... but I finished it in not even half the time. I couldn't put it down. The chemistry was palpable at basically every moment, and the denial was real. Also Alex is so sweet.
All of the character had such a depth to them in the writing that I truly did just love them all and they all had a part to play. Also I adored the way the story flicks between the current and every past summer - revealing chunks of their past in ways that feel so important right then and there.
All of the character had such a depth to them in the writing that I truly did just love them all and they all had a part to play. Also I adored the way the story flicks between the current and every past summer - revealing chunks of their past in ways that feel so important right then and there.
Content Warnings
Minor: Pregnancy
hanngigi's review
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
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
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content, Grief, and Death of parent
Minor: Animal death and Pregnancy
frmeden's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
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? Yes
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content and Alcohol
Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, and Pregnancy