A review by nebraskanwriter
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

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

2.5

A book that just left me wanting a little more. Two best friends go on vacation every summer for 10 years  (just the two of them, even when they both are in relationships with other people, they still go just the two of them). I just felt like they were both not good for each other, especially Poppy. 

She was always a wedge between Alex and his other relationships because he could never let her go (she would never let him let her go) so he would move on and live his life without her. She would never let him grow because she had to have him all to herself even though she “didn’t love him”, he couldn’t be with any one else but her.

Twelve years of your life with someone, stopping them from being truly happy because you can’t have them all to yourself, you have to share him with other people. It just didn’t vibe with me. I was trying really hard to like it but the last 30 pages especially with the warped rationale, the way Poppy tried to reason and explain why she did what she did and why she just wasted 12 years of their lives and the confessions and the reasoning on why things happened the way they did, was just the nail in the coffin for me for this book. 
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