My 67th read of the year (oh yeah look at me go!) was You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry. We’re finally done with the holiday reads but since this book was all about travelling and vacations, this helped beat those holiday blues a little bit.
A summary attempt
12 summers, 10 vacations. Best friends Alex and Poppy are an unlikely duo who formed an unbreakable friendship, which seemed to stand the test of time. Until two years ago on their last vacation, where a falling out caused them not to speak for two years. Poppy finds herself feeling lost, even though she did it: she achieved her dream career, in her dream city, in her dream apartment. So in attempt to find what is missing, Poppy retraces her steps to the last time she was truly happy, which was the yearly summer trips with Alex before things got messy and complicated. So she decides to go out a limb and invite Alex on another summer trip, surprisingly, Alex agrees but they have to tie it into his trip to Palm Springs for his brother’s wedding. She hopes one last trip will fix everything but will it be enough to fix the cracks caused by two year’s distance and a decade’s history?
My thoughts?
I really loved these characters and all Poppy’s talk about being a travel writer really made me nostalgic for my travelling days, so some of the personal journey arc she goes on in the book felt really close to my own heart. I’m not the biggest fan of the ‘best friend’s to lovers’ trope but it did work surprisingly well in this book. I didn’t enjoy this as much as Beach Read or Book Lovers but I still think this is a good read, I think Emily Henry has become an auto-buy author for me.
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Antonia Bernardin 
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