People We Meet on Vacation

By: Emily Henry

Narrated by: Julia Whelan

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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?

It's a nice story

It's a nice story, but it flips too much to the past then present found it hard to follow sometimes. There were some parts a actually fell asleep but even though I dosed off for 15 to 20 min I didn't miss anything they were still stuck in the same issue so there was no need to rewind.

Witty, laugh out loud fun

Loved this book. Julia Whelan always knocks it out of the park with narration so thats a given. The story here was unique and kept me interested and engaged the whole time, forever teasing the inevitable. The characters (namely Poppy) were PHENOMENAL and I wish I could be friends with, well, almost all of them -never have I wanted to spend time with a fictional person so much as I do Poppy. She would make an excellent travel companion!
This was the first book by Emily Henry I have read/listened to, but after devouring every witty word, I will definitely be going back to check out her other books!
THEME MATTERS!!!!

didn't like main character

Meh. Main character seemed bratty and shallow, so I wasn't rooting for her and the story had no surprises. Decent listen but I wouldn't recommend.

So good

This is the first book I have read where I actually laughed out loud. Poppy and Alex have the best sense of humor. Narration was excellent!

LOVED

I never write reviews but this was so cute and enjoyable all around, I was so sad when it ended