Thank you Netgalley for the eARC of this book.

Alex and Poppy are two very different people who met in college and somehow became best friends. They take yearly vacations together until two summers ago. The story is told from Poppy's POV and alternates between the present summer and their past summers together.

I initially struggled with this. It just seemed like Poppy was overcompensating and Alex had no personality whatsoever but as the book progresses, Emily does a great job developing these characters and their friendship that at the end of the book, you can't help but love and feel every single emotion with them.

I loved how vulnerable Poppy was even though I was scared for her, I saw the strength in it. This book is fun, the banter is great, the chemistry was amazing, the style of writing is just right and the ending was perfect.

' and even on days when one or both of us is having a hard time, we'll be here where we are completely known, completely accepted, by the person whose every side we love wholeheartedly.'

What an absolutely wonderful book! Reading about travel (sigh) and a romance that felt real and true--and wow, can Emily Henry write dialogue! I've loved her writing since her YA novels, but moving to smart, funny and sizzling chemistry romances has been a gift for us all. I know I'm preaching to the choir, but People We Meet On Vacation is a well-written and wonderful tale of love, friendship, and everything between. This will be the beach/virtual beach read of the summer for sure!

Thank you NetGalley and the Penguin UK for this ARC in exchange for an honest review 

I am in love .
This book is an utter perfection.My cheeks were hurting from smiling.Every single thing ,from characters,writing to setting is a 5/5 for me.
If you liked Beach read you will absolutely love this book.perfect amount of funny,angst,fluff and romance.I wish I could read it again for the first time.
Book withdrawal in 3,2,1...
My favourite read of 2021.I am looking forward to her future books!
Go ahead and order a copy I promise you won't regret it!

Loved this book. True twist on the When Harry met Sally idea Alex and Poppy are truly best friends who just happen to vacation together every year and confide in each other all their hopes and dreams. When life starts to work out the way both of them wish they find themselves wondering whether what they wanted was right for them after all. Funny, charming, beautifully written and in a tome where travel is so limited a wonderful reminder of the joys of travel whether in luxury or on a budget!

Poppy and Alex have great chemistry which is something Emily Henry can write damn well. I enjoyed how the story kept alternating between the summers of their past and their present. Both the timelines are told from Poppy’s perspective which irked me somewhat and I would have loved to see what was going on inside Alex’s mind. Overall, I much preferred Beach Read than this book but it was a fun friends-to-lovers romance where we see two people who refused to see that they both love each other romantically. In the end, all is well.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the eARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Can you guess how this lovely tale will end? Oh yes but do you love the journey there anyway? Absolutely. This book romps through different summer breaks that a couple of strangers who then become best friends take over ten years. Not only do we get to see their friendship develop in what pleasantly seems like real time, there is also the contrast with the last vacation where the pair are a bit stilted and trying to rekindle their friendship after a hiccup. The hiccup is slowly exposed as the book continues and you laugh and cry with Poppy and Alex as they work out whether their stark differences mean they have a future as lovers, best friends or just nothing at all.

This is a great book. You follow the lives of Poppy and Alex over the course of a decade and more whilst they navigate their friendship and they romantic relationships with other people. Along the way we get to visit wonderful places that they go too on holiday every summer, and laugh when Poppy gets drunk and says too many wine.

Great read, i really enjoyed it.

I loved the dateline of their summer trips and was willing these friends into romance. I knew they would but was wondering how?. I wasn’t disappointed! Well worth reading

Last year I was completely smitten with Beach Read, so when I was offered a widget for Emily Henry's latest rom-com I was beyond myself with giddiness. I had just started it and I was already of finishing too fast and didn't want to rush it. Also, I had exams to study for, so I definitely had to slow down. I'm not sure I loved it as much as Beach Read, and I want to re-read it to better savor it, but I loved it nonetheless. Poppy and Alex were adorable, their friendship and chemistry was off the charts, the kind of chemistry which burns and melts, and their relationship, both as friends and as lovers, was just so genuine and real that I could almost touch it. I love how Emily writes her characters, they're stubborn and flawed as any of us, and they're beautiful souls. Towards the end I grew a little frustrated with their decisions and at one point I was sincerely afraid things were about to go horribly wrong and for all the wrong reasons. They broke each other's hearts and went scarily near to ruin it all, but the ending was extremely satisfying and I was grateful for it and the overall beautiful read. I honestly couldn't love Emily's writing more, she's an amazing writer and writes the best kind of stories, so full of heart they make you truly ache for the characters, and I can't wait to read everything she'll put out next. Thank you Penguin General UK for the opportunity to read this wonderful book early and to the author for writing it in the first place. Highly recommended!

I was so excited to be approved to read this as I loved Beach Read when I read that and this book definitely lived up to my expectations! I absolutely loved this book and I knew it was going to be a 5 star read for me before I was even half way!

There was so many elements to this story that I loved:

∙Friends to lovers/second chance romance.
∙The way the story was told through a mixture of being in the now and flashbacks looking at what happened on previous vacations, building up to the vacation 2 years ago where it all went wrong.
∙Poppy and Alex! I absolutely adored both of these characters, I loved their chemistry and how you saw their friendship develop from when they first met all the way to how they are with each other at the end. It was done really well and I loved seeing how Poppy had been falling for Alex for years and brushing it off because she felt that their relationship didn’t need that kind of complication. I would have loved to have seen how things played out in Alex’s POV but that didn’t take away any of my love of this book!
∙Their relationship felt really natural, nothing seemed forced and I loved that I could tell just how much these two meant to each other.
∙Holiday settings are always so fun to read.

This book made me feel every emotion going! It made me laugh and cry, broke my heart and somehow managed to fix it again and I could not recommend this book more if you like reading romance!

Thanks to NetGalley, Penguin UK, to send me a digital review copy in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I am sad that I didn't like it as much as I would like.

The concept of this story hyped me when I read the synopsis, especially that it's about travels at a time that it's difficult to do so. Also, I like that you will see the relationship between Poppy and Alex evolves through those journeys.
However, the execution wasn't for me. I wasn't fond of all the flashbacks that alternate with the present moments; they put me off of what is happening now. I was interested in those past trips at the beginning of the book, but I found that they became redundant at the end and didn't add a lot to the story.
Moreover, Poppy always talks about the trip from two summers ago without telling a lot, so you have a "suspense". Sadly you quickly understand what happened, but the whole story doesn't appear before a long time in the novel.

I liked one element in the book, but Emily Henry is a good author for that, and it's the characters. I like the complexity of them, how they revolve around each other. I am a big fan of the character's backstory, and here I was served. They are profoundly human. Even if I didn't like their behaviours, you want to understand them by knowing more about them and who they truly are. I like that you have complex characters stories intricated to this main story.

I can only advise you to read this book to see if you like it, but I know that many people liked it a lot more than me, so go ahead and see yourself.

I really enjoyed this light-hearted story of Poppy and Alex, and it was well written enough that the “will they fall in love” premise of the book swerved being merely formulaic. Thanks NetGalley!

This book was absolutely incredible. I laughed out loud way too many times to count, and it was adorable! If you like the friends to lovers and there’s only one bed tropes, you will love this book! The writing was perfection and the story was told so well. I loved the two timelines in this book, it kept me on my toes for the entire book. I highly recommend this book, it’s like a warm hug and is the perfect book to read on holiday!

Thank you so much to Penguin and Netgalley for the ARC!

You and Me on Vacation follows Poppy, a travel influencer and journalist who works for a very popular travel magazine. Through her job she has been able to travel to many different places with all expenses paid for and has always done this with her best friend Alex.

We follow Poppy and Alex’s friendship through their present and past summer holidays together. The past holidays are told from 12 summers ago and moves forward from that in every other chapter.

The book is told in Poppy’s POV and therefore, through-out we don’t see how Alex is feeling and just experience this through Poppy’s eyes and how she interprets his feelings. I found it so fun to be following the development of their friendship in the past holidays, whilst reading about the beautiful destinations they visited and the people they met and also reading the present timeline seeing how they were now!

Poppy and Alex were both complete opposites in terms of their personalities, but they worked so well together. I loved the family element from Poppy and Alex too thought this added a lot to understanding why both characters acted how they did. I was completely invested in the pairs story and was 100% rooting for everything to work out for them both.

You and Me on Vacation is such a fun, feel good romance story. I recommend it to anyone looking for a great romance read!

4.5/5 stars

I loved this book! You and Me On Vacation is a contemporary romance/romantic comedy that will make you both laugh and cry.

The narrator is 30 year old Poppy (1st person POV). She is a travel journalist who lives in New York City. She works at one of the top travel magazines.

Poppy met Alex when she was in college. And every Summer they take a trip together.

The book alternates between the past and the present. The present is the main time period. But we get to go back to previous vacations to see how Poppy and Alex ended up where they are now. The past storyline is mostly told from 12 Summers ago moving forward year by year.

I loved this book right from the first chapter. I really liked Poppy's job and her friends. And I was super curious to find out more about the past vacations. Also we find out that something major happened during their last vacation. And I was dying to find out exactly what that was all about.

We don't get Alex's POV. So throughout the book I had no idea what he was thinking or feeling. This definitely added to the drama. I don't normally like past/present storylines. But the past vacations were really interesting.

I really felt like I got to know these two characters over the course of this book. It was amazing to get to know them simply through their vacations. It was definitely an interesting way to tell a story.

The book had some surprises for me. There were definitely things that I was not expecting.

Overall, this story was heartbreaking and emotional and I loved it so much!

4.5 stars

Headlines:
Roller coaster friendship/love
Holiday vibes
Chem-is-try

There was nothing that I didn't enjoy about Emily Henry's upcoming release. The fact that she delivers on summery read to remember (again) and that I was lucky to read and listen in tandem to this book. Both formats were as good as one another.

You and Me on Vacation was told over a number of summers, charting the most lovely friendship; in the main this was platonic...until it wasn't. Then, oh boy, the chemistry set fire to the pages, slowly.

In all the ways, both Poppy and Alex were opposite in personality and goals. They worked so well as friends and their summer trips were fun expeditions and something they both lived for. I loved seeing these trips unfurl as the years were recounted. I loved the people they met, the places they went but nothing was more interesting than THIS SUMMER. I loved getting back to that narrative.

The pages of this book, the minutes of the audio just turned themselves and I was sad to get to the end. Emily Henry knows how to inject just a little drama and tension with a great contemporary story. I'm here for next summer's installment!

Narration-wise, this was single POV and single narration and it was excellent. I got all the sense of characterisation and the emotional feels from the listen. It's such a perfect format to absorb the story while on literal vacation!

Thank you to Penguin for the gorgeous book and audio early copies.

I was kindly given a copy of this book by NetGalley & Penguin General UK in return for an honest review.
I was really excited for this book, as last year I read and absolutely loved Beach Read by Emily Henry and so I wasn’t surprised when I also really enjoyed You & Me on Vacation. I read it every chance I could; I was just so interested to find out more about Poppy & Alex and if fate would be on their side!

They are two friends that are complete opposites and shouldn’t really click, but somehow they do. But only after giving each other another chance, when they unexpectedly meet for the second time for a shared car ride back to their home town for the summer.
That summer, they made a promise that no matter what - even if they’re apart the rest of the year - every summer, they’ll take a trip together. That is until 2 years ago, when they took their last trip and haven’t spoken to each other since.
Poppy is now feeling lost in her life and decides to take the plunge & ask Alex to join her on another (potentially final) trip in the hopes of getting things back to how they were & feel true happiness like she used to whenever they adventured together!

I thought the flash backs to each trip were such a lovely look into their friendship, each one creeping slowly towards revealing THAT Croatia trip that supposedly ruined everything - which I desperately wanted to know what the hell happened!
All the while apprehensively reading about this current summer trip. Wishing things will work out between them, despite things going so wrong on all aspects and almost assuredly heading to a further disaster!
Completely safe to say I was fully invested in Poppy & Alex’s story and I thoroughly enjoyed it!
I will definitely be looking to read more of Emily Henry’s books in the future.
If you love a ‘will they-won’t they’ story full of funny flashbacks and loveable characters, you should definitely give this a read!

I loved Beach Read and was unsure whether I'd love this as much. Turns out I loved it even more it was incredible! I loved how it showed the split POV and showing how Poppy was slowly falling in love without making it obvious. Alex and Poppy felt like such real honest characters and I loved it all from start to end!

Emily Henry, I will read anything you write!!

I loved Beach Read and am pleased to say that People We Meet on Vacation is just as good. I loved the diversity of both the main characters and stayed up most of the night finishing this one.

Not so much a story about travelling adventures, as they rarely leave America. It is a long look at the relationship of two people, Poppy and Alex, and how one wants to stay put and grow roots, while the other wants the opposite. Can they overcome this and be more than travelling friends