📖 Book Lovers 

✏️ Emily Henry

📍Sunshine Falls (NC) & New York

👥 Nora Stephens. Charlie Lastra.

📎 Contemporary Romance

“I do not like him. If I’m the archetypal City Person, he is the Dour, Unappeasable, Stick-in-the-Mud. He’s the Growly Misanthrope, Oscar the Grouch, second-act Heathcliff, the worst parts of Mr. Knightley.”

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So. I read People We Meet On Vacation/You & Me On Vacation last year and I absolutely loved it. It was my first Emily Henry read and I immediately added everything else of hers to my TBR and pre-ordered Happy Place. That, alongside all of the hype Book Lovers got last year, probably meant I had higher expectations than I potentially should have had going into it.

It’s a good book. It’s a nice story. The main characters are easy to root for as flawed weirdos that so many of us can relate to. It has a bit of spice and it has a bit of humour. But I couldn’t get excited about it and I actually fell behind the buddy read plan. 

It did get me wondering what makes some bestselling romances click with me, when others fall flat. What made The Spanish Love Deception scrape 3 stars but Things We Never Got Over one of my stand out reads of 2022. I don’t know whether it’s about connecting with the lead female or fancying the lead male (Knox Morgan, will you marry me?) 🤣 I’ll keep exploring that theory. 

So a little underwhelmed. I will still read her other stuff but maybe sense check my expectations at the door.