I hate to inform you that Poppy is a travel blogger, and not only do I personally find travel bloggers annoying and borderline offensive, I just think that it was a particularly poor execution. Unfortunately, the author also decided to bog down the romance and bury it deep under unnecessary and dull stuff. This is a fantastic setup for excruciating angst and Henry does deliver on that part.

Poppy and Alex were best friends, but they got in a fight, and are now on a trip together to try and patch up their relationship. Let’s discuss.įirst of all, I think that the actual romance between Poppy and Alex is amazing, and there’s a lot of great tension there. People We Meet on Vacation (or Me and You on Vacation, as it is being released in the UK, for some bizarre reason) has a great friends-to-lovers romance, but it’s NOT a great friends-to-lovers romance book. Last year, I read and really enjoyed Beach Read by Emily Henry (despite me feeling like it was not truly a romance), so I was really excited to read Henry’s next release. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together-lay everything on the table, make it all right. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. 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. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends.

She has insatiable wanderlust he prefers to stay home with a book.

People you meet on vacation