People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
Two very close pals. ten summer excursions. One final opportunity to find love. Alex and Poppy. Poppy and Alex. They are unrelated to one another. He’s dressed in khakis, she’s a wild child. He loves to stay home with a book, whereas she has an insatiable need to travel. They have been the best of friends ever since a tragic car share from college many years ago. While she lives in New York City and he in their little hamlet for the majority of the year, they have spent one wonderful week of vacation every summer for the past ten years.
Up until they wrecked everything two years ago. Since then, they haven’t spoken. Poppy is in a rut despite having everything she should want. She is certain that the tragic, last trip she took with Alex was the last time she felt completely content. In order to make everything right, she resolves to persuade her best buddy that they should go on one more vacation together. Amazingly, he consents. She now has a week to make everything right. If only she can avoid the one major reality that has silently persisted throughout their ostensibly ideal relationship. What possibly could go wrong?
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
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Since college, Poppy and Alex have been close friends. Even better, they discovered they are from the same region. Poppy writes for R&R magazine, and Alex decides to become a teacher. She writes articles on trips. Since they first met, she and Alex have gone on vacation together. She now brings him along because she can do it for work. Over the course of these trips and time, they come to the realization that they are in love. Before going to college, Poppy was made fun of. She was isolated. She felt less lonely as a result of these trips and the individuals she met there. She now understands that she carries herself with her. And it makes no difference where she resides. discovering that she is in love with her best friend as a result.
Since O-Day on the first day of school or college at the University of Chicago, Alex and Poppy have been pals. They both have a reputation for being oddballs or outsiders who find it difficult to make friends, and it is clear that they didn’t have a positive first impression of one another either. They both hail from Ohio, but as luck would have it, they have very different perspectives about their city. Call it a random meeting, but they both decide to travel home for the semester holidays in Alex’s car, and that’s when they start speaking openly and becoming friends who feel at ease with one another. After that, they become nearly inseparable and decide to take annual summer trips.
This novel was just as incredibly sweet as Beach Read; it touched me, made me feel the same warmth these characters shared with one another, and made me realize how crucial it is to find friends who make you feel at home. As our adventures unite us with people we may not have first felt we have much in common with, I experienced the tremulous feelings that being together, even in the same communal place, produces.
Since they first met at the University of Chicago, Alex and Poppy have been friends. While Poppy is the more wildly spontaneous, bubbly firecracker, and Alex is initially more quiet, bookish, and reserved, they both bring out the inner weirdness and wonder of the other as their chemistry grows with a fervour matched by the electricity and lasting, poignant fulfilment of a beach sunset. However, the banter between them was a little over the top and felt too manufactured or funny to be genuine to life, which has ambiguous times, conversation that isn’t especially beautiful, planned, or thrilling, and periods of equivocating.
