Name: You and Me on Vacation
ISBN: 9780241992234

Emily Henry

You and Me on Vacation

kari <33

taylor

nanafark

Fr fr. I mean, I'm still me but I've met people who change on vacation.

Keira 💫

Like a good book or an incredible outfit, being on vacation transports you into another version of yourself.

darcey

 I love him so much. I love him more than I did yesterday, and I already know tomorrow I’ll love him even more, because every piece of him he gives me is another to fall in love with. 

Darshini ✨

neya

Alex bumps his leg into mine under the table, and when I glance at him, he’s not even looking my way. He’s just reminding me that he’s here, that nothing can really hurt me.

Ashley Gallagher

That crush of happiness, that feeling that this is what life’s about: being somewhere beautiful, with someone you love. 

Avery

For the first time in my life, the airport strikes me as the loneliest place in the world.

All those people, parting ways, going off in their own directions, crossing paths with hundreds of people but never connecting.

anita🌼

I'm crying because I'm relieved. Because I will never again feel as alone as I did during those long nights as a kid. As long as I have him, I will never be alone again.

Chrissie Smith

“I don't think I knew I was lonely until I met you." 

Kayla Jardim

Abigail | 

Chloe

Prettybooks

Carla Gallo

From the#1New York Times bestselling author ofBook Lovers andBeach Read comesa sparkling novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.
 
Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since.
 
Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.
 
Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

People We Meet On Vacation

Michelle Dsouza

Cute, cozy, and very readable, but it didn’t fully sweep me off my feet. People We Meet on Vacation is a friends-to-lovers romance about Poppy and Alex, two total opposites who build their friendship through a tradition of taking one vacation together every year. Something happens that breaks the rhythm, they stop speaking, and the story follows them as they try to retrace the past trips and finally face what went wrong and what they actually mean to each other. It’s classic Emily Henry in terms of vibe: witty dialogue, charming travel settings, and that warm, nostalgic feeling of looking back at “the moments that made us.” I loved the concept and the structure, jumping between vacations, because it makes the relationship feel layered and earned. For me, though, it was a solid enjoy, not a full-on obsession. I liked the banter and the chemistry, but parts of the pacing felt a bit slow and I didn’t feel as emotionally hooked as I wanted to be. Still, it’s a sweet, easy romance that’s perfect if you want something light with a little heart.

"What happens when best friends with nothing in common come together, fall apart, and fall in love? The Vacationers meets When Harry Met Sally..., from the author of Beach Read When Poppy met Alex, there was no spark, no chemistry, and no reason to thinkthey'd ever talk again. Alex is quiet, studious, and destined for a future in academia. Poppy is a wild child who only came to U of Chicago to escape small-town life. But after sharing a ride home for the summer, the two form a surprising friendship. After all, who better to confide in than someone you could never, ever date? Over the years, Alex and Poppy's lives take them in different directions, but every summer the two find their way back to each other for a magical weeklong vacation. Until one trip goes awry, and in the fallout, they lose touch. Now, two years later, Poppy's in a rut. Her dream job, her relationships, her life--none of it is making her happy. In fact, the last time she remembers feeling truly happy was on that final, ill-fated SummerTrip. The answer to all her problems is obvious: She needs one last vacation to win back her best friend. As a hilariously disastrous week unfolds and tensions rise, Poppy and Alex are forced to confront what drove them apart--and decide what they're willing to risk for the chance to be together"--

People We Meet on Vacation

Loved the chemistry between the two main characters, could not stop reading. Such a sweet story

Allysen

CUTE. Friends to lovers is so tender to me idgaf 

Liz Hunsaker

This got a slow star, but then it picked up and got so good that I had to know what happened next.

Poppy is a character I never expected to relate to because we are total opposites, but she really hit the nail on the head when it came to making decisions and choosing what to do when your life.

Alex, y'all, I just love that man, I found him so relatable and also so freaking sweet. 

It is true that maybe together, they might not make sense, but I think that is on the surface. After reading them together and how they make each other the best and truest version of each other, you can't help but want them together.

It is not a full 5 stars because I think towards the end it became a bit rushed the whole thing.

This got a slow star, but then it picked up and got so good that I had to know what happened next.

Poppy is a character I never expected to relate to because we are total opposites, but she really hit the nail on the head when it came to making decisions and choosing what to do when your life.

Alex, y'all, I just love that man, I found him so relatable and also so freaking sweet. 

It is true that maybe together, they might not make sense, but I think that is on the surface. After reading them together and how they make each other the best and truest version of each other, you can't help but want them together.

It is not a full 5 stars because I think towards the end it became a bit rushed the whole thing.

issa

sooo long. i loved it. poppy is so my girl, i love her so much and Alex, needless to say, has become my man goal. anyway, the story is great once you get into it. i had to get past 200 pages for that but you have to be patient in life.

siinsiiin

YOUCH! it is very hard to be nonchalant about this book because it touched a part of my soul that i didn't think could be seen by anyone else. emily henry gets it. she really does! i think i am always going to be forever changed knowing this book exists in this world, and i can pick it up anytime. the movie adaptation is really going to kill me i think.

shaye

Ella Williams

I preferred Beach Read, but this does some interesting things narrative-wise with its timeline and is funny and touching in places. The thing that I struggle with in this and other romance novels that aren’t historical or romantasy is that the tensions and obstacles that the characters face are generated by them being obtuse or childish, so they come across as caricatures and I don’t feel as invested in their story.

Laura Dobie

The flashbacks to vacations past (and their original meet at college) really helped build Poppy and Alex's friendship and make it feel real, and deep, for me, which I liked. I think that was really well done, and made me want to keep reading to keep finding out little tidbits about their friendship and why it fell by the wayside.

This one is definitely a slow burn, almost a little too much of a slow burn, which is the only reason it wasn't a 5 ⭐ read for me. 

Overall enjoyable, emotional, and wrapping up with a satisfying ending 🩷

Megan Murray 

The flashbacks to vacations past (and their original meet at college) really helped build Poppy and Alex's friendship and make it feel real, and deep, for me, which I liked. I think that was really well done, and made me want to keep reading to keep finding out little tidbits about their friendship and why it fell by the wayside.

This one is definitely a slow burn, almost a little too much of a slow burn, which is the only reason it wasn't a 5 ⭐ read for me. 

Overall enjoyable, emotional, and wrapping up with a satisfying ending 🩷

Carmen Malca

First Emily Henry book I've read!! I love how she writes and how witty and easy to understand the worrs are. I loveee Alex and poppy 

janna a

'A gorgeous romance' BETH O'LEARY, The Flatshare 'Our generation's answer to Nora Ephron' SOPHIE COUSENS, This Time Next Year 'So warm and funny' PAIGE TOON, The Minute I Saw You 'A pitch-perfect balance of loveable characters, hilarious wit and steamy sexual chemistry' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS, Our Stop From the bestselling author of Beach Read comes a steamy new novel that will have you laughing out loud and dreaming of your next holiday! *Also known as People We Meet On Vacation* TWO FRIENDS TEN TRIPS THEIR LAST CHANCE TO FALL IN LOVE 12 YEARS AGO: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again. 11 YEARS AGO: They're forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact: every year, one vacation together. 10 YEARS AGO: Alex discovers his fear of flying on the way to Vancouver. Poppy holds his hand the whole way. 7 YEARS AGO: They get far too drunk and narrowly avoid getting matching tattoos in New Orleans. 2 YEARS AGO: It all goes wrong. THIS YEAR: Poppy asks Alex to join her on one last trip. A trip that will determine the rest of their lives. You and Me on Vacation is a New York Times bestselling love story for fans of When Harry Met Sally, One Day and Casey McQuiston. Get ready to travel the world, snort with laughter and - most of all - lose your heart to Poppy and Alex. ------------------------------------------------------------ WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT EMILY HENRY 'The hottest book of the summer - the pages simply sizzle!' JOSIE SILVER 'Full of banter, heat, and sexual tension. A gorgeous page-turner of a novel' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS 'Full of sexual tension and tantalizing possibility. I fell head over heels for Alex and Poppy, and loved travelling all over the world with them both' BETH O'LEARY 'Emily Henry is my newest automatic-buy author . . . a heartfelt, funny, tender escape that you wish could last forever' JODI PICOULT 'A compulsively readable book full of sparkling wit, dazzling prose and a romance that grabbed me by the heart and wouldn't let me go. Absolutely my favourite read of the year, and probably one of my favourite books of all time' ABBY JIMENEZ 'Funny, and seriously sizzling' BEST 'Original, sparkling bright and layered with feeling. If whipcrack banter and foggy sexual tension is your catnip, you'll adore this book' SALLY THORNE 'What an absolute flipping triumph of a novel!!! I LOVED it ' EMMA COOPER

Tiktok made me buy it! Escape with 2021’s New York Times #1 bestselling laugh-out-loud love story

A thread of linked hands between Hallmark Romance and something recognised more as 'reality'. I suggest a read for anyone who feels unsettled or intimidated by the optimism of traditional romantic comedy. 

daphne

i feel pretty much the same about this as i did about funny story. i don’t really love poppy or alex much, but i like them together. still made me cry 

julia

Fatiema 

I feel like Sarah should be allowed to get away with murder

Stas

Lidia testa

Lenja

Sommarmöten

Väldigt långtråkig, händer inte jätte mycket. 

Lyckades inte ens läsa klart den, väldigt svårt att ja upp å börja läsa igen.

Nova sjödin

Väldigt långtråkig, händer inte jätte mycket. 

Lyckades inte ens läsa klart den, väldigt svårt att ja upp å börja läsa igen.

i honestly think frienda to lovers is evil bc the way i felt ill seeing the tension was insane, i rlly did love them though. I CANT WAIT TO SEE MOVIE ALEX OH MY GODDD!!! i did think the kiss in croatia was a bit underwhelming, like a big argument wouldve made this a 4.5 star read but other than that i rlly love this book

best friends to lovers excellence !!! poppyalex i love you !!!

eden ☮

I was not expecting to love this book the way I did. I sat down to start it and finished it in one shot. 

Alissa 

Eva Ströberg

All the other reviews convinced me that this wasn’t some chick lit book, and that’s why I picked it up.

You know what? It is just some chick lit book and I spent half of the reading time wondering when the interesting story would pick up, and felt deflated because it didn’t for the next half of my reading time

Poppy and Alex, such difficult romance. Such complicated relationship, that was probably only valid if they were in highschool and fuelled by teen angst.

But no, Poppy and Alex are two grown ups who couldn’t admit to themselves what they wanted.

And I lost respect to Poppy and the author once she confused Austria with Australia. Say what?? Amateur. 

If only I could give zero star, I would

You and Me on Vacation

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