Oh my heart! This was even better than Beach Read!

If you love adorable yet complex characters, witty & playful dialogue, hilarious mishaps, and friends-to-lovers romance, this one was made for you. I will be swooning for weeks to come!

This is like When Harry met Sally. But with Poppt and Alex and their journey through their vacations they share and the friendship they form. A nice Sunday afternoon read. Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for letting me review this book.

Emily Henry you have done it again!
I fully believe that you have some how managed to reach deep into my soul and write exactly what I didn't know I needed.

You and Me on Vacation is a mix of the past and present perspectives of Poppy Wright; bright-adventurous-dramatic-wanderlust-Poppy, and her yearly summer vacation with best friend Alex Nilsen; sweet-shy-control-freak-literature-loveing-Alex. The book covers the 12 years on their best-friend-ship from when they met in O-week at university to present day Palm Springs, at Alex's brothers weeding. I loved the change between past and present! getting to know Poppy and Alex now while also getting to know then when they first met.

The development of their relationship was lovely and heartwarming and oh-my-goosness-please. Both Poppy and Alex are beautifully flawed characters, so real and broken and amazing. I am in awe of how Emily Henry writes people that are so real that I can get immediately hooked, like 100% invested in their lives and cannot think about anything else. The slow-burn between Poppy and Alex was so slow and tortuous and my-heart-cannot-cope-with-all-the-emotions-perfect.

Honestly I don't think I have the words to explain how much I loved this story and how deeply invested I was, and still am. I cannot explain the way my heart was racing and my mind was fixed wholly on the words in front of me. I cannot recommend this book enough.

Take a journey through the friendship of Poppy and Alex who met 12 summers ago who didn't actually like each other at first. However, a year later they spend a car journey together as they return back to their hometown in Ohio which allows them to form a friendship and plans for their first vacation. Over the years during college and beyond they make sure to plan a summer vacation together.

The story starts with Poppy discovering that she has met all her professional goals as a travel writer and influencer, however, feels as though there is something missing from her life. Her friend Rachel asks her to think about the last time she was truly happy, which instantly brings a flashback of Alex to her mind. However, the best friends haven't spoken in two years. An incident on their last vacation led to them giving each other space, which as time went on it wasn't ever easier to reach out and reconnect. However, Poppy has decided that she'd love to have one more summer vacation with Alex - if he'll speak to her.

Flitting between the stories from their previous summers together, giving you an insight into their friendship, the loves and passions in life. With Alex due to attend his younger brother's wedding they make a plan to spend a few days beforehand together before heading to the celebration. Whilst her travel job at R&R have said no to her low budget vacation idea Poppy goes ahead with it paying and booking everything herself which doesn't quite go to plan.

After having been friends for so many years, are they able to find the friendship they once had and possibly take it to the next level. But their lives are different, is there a way to make it work? Laugh out loud moments and tissues at the ready for this one.

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

I believe in Emily Henry supremacy

Alex and Poppy are best friends who couldn’t be more different and regardless of where they are in their lives each summer has cemented time together with their annual summer trip or at least it had because after an incident on one said trip, Poppy and Alex haven’t spoken in two years. When Poppy attempts to consider the last time in her life she was truly happy all she can think of is the time she spent with Alex and proposes a trip to remind Alex and herself how good their friendship is, a trip which is plagued with plenty of Vacation mishaps and reliving of Vacations past, allowing them to realise what it is they really mean to each other.

This book is wonderful. Beach Read was one of my favourite reads of 2020 and I couldn’t wait to get my hands on this one. Also feel blessed to be reading this in January because it’s currently summer this is a book to be reading by the beach and in the sun.

Emily Henry has such an amazing sense of humour I don’t know if it's just that it's exactly what I find funny or that it's written super well and effortlessly, but I always end up laughing out loud. I truly believe she mas mastered the art of the rom-com. This book is the perfect blend of romance and witty banter with just the right amount of emotional depth.

This book is written so incredibly well. The writing itself had me pausing after reading certain passages as I was left thinking how incredibly written it was. The structure of this was very unique flashing between vacations past and present to convey a holistic view of how Poppy and Alex came to be who they are and where they’re at in their relationship. And the characters are conceived so well not just Poppy and Alex who are both so different but equally complex and fleshed out but all the side characters that are met along the way are so uniquely well developed.

Poppy and Alex could not be more different which is largely their obstacle to face but their differences aren’t a detriment to their relationship but rather a marker of the lengths they go to prove their love to one another which looks different in each other eyes.

The story itself depicts a lot of travelling (which is certainly something to be missed in 2021) and presents it as not necessarily the intricacies of new places but about the notion of that experiencing something new brings us new people and new connections.

This book is about not wanting to be alone and how you do not always have to travel far and wide to find the people you connect with. How even when you feel like you don’t belong anywhere there are people in life who are such innate parts of ourselves that even if we’ve overlooked it they’re apart of where we belong rather than a particular place.

This book takes you on Poppy and Alex’s surprisingly emotional ride which spans twelve years and a whole lot of love. It's both a deliciously fun time with a lot of depth that has you thinking about it a while after. I adored everything about this book.

I LOVED this. I really liked Poppy and Alex and whilst the ending was predictable that wasn't a bad thing. Their relationship and journey was great and I sped through the book. Perfect pandemic reading.

This book speaks to me! Poppy and Alex are the ultimate friendship and it is a book that you truly believe the friendship and the fear they have.
Emily Henry has done it again, Beach Read last year and now this, she is an author I am falling in love with.
The characters are captured in such a way you feel every emotion right there with them. You can see he path that could’ve been and maybe what should’ve been but this story really shows a love that has blossomed and maintained through the years and it is outwardly about friendship but ultimately true love.

I received an advance copy of, You and Me on Vacation, by Emily Henry. I did not like this book, the characters or the language. I also thought it was boring.

I really enjoyed this book - it does what it says on the tin! It's a great when Harry met Sally tale - really glad to see that the author acknowledged their love of Ephron. This was a heartwarming story for the darkness of January

A great romance. Wonderfully written and with characters you can really get to know. I loved seeing Alex so clearly through Poppy’s eyes.

Thank you to netgalley and Penguin UK for access to this E-ARC.

Now that I have read two of Henry’s books I can say she is officially one of my favourite authors. I love how she writes romances that are always interwoven with other genres. This story I would say is interwoven with the theme of friendship.

I think because 2020 and 2021 are the way that they are this story about a character who writes for a travel blog was a perfect kind of escapism. It also had one of my favourite ways to format chapters that went back and forth between present day and flashbacks. I would give this book 4.5 stars. It didn’t disappoint me at all.

Thank you so much for inviting me to read this book. This is a wonderful story, funny, sad, entertaining and so very true to life. How many readers I wonder will see themselves and the choices they have made in life in this story of two people who love each other so totally and completely and fit together so naturally that they don’t even realise how they feel about each other and even when they do won’t acknowledge it in case they lose the most precious friendship that they have. How will they choose, what will they choose, will they end up together or apart, Can they risk losing the treasured moments of their friendship by trusting and sharing how they truly feel, or will they each end up with other people and carry the regret of words unspoken, risks not taken, forever. Take a journey into this beautifully written heartwarming story and find out for yourself. If I could give this book 6 stars I would but as there is only five it’s a 5 star review.

Alex meets Poppy 12 years ago this summer. They don't like each other and then the next summer, they are forced to spend time together, Somehow, they keep spending summers together until it becomes the one thing they both look forward to. After not spending last summer together, Poppy wants to find a way to spend this summer with Alex, even if she needs to make it happen.

Told through the present day and flashbacks to summers of the past, you get drawn into Alex and Poppy's story instantly and can't wait to see how every summer spent together leads them to right now.

After loving Beach Read last summer, I had high expectations for Emily's new book and was not disappointed. I devoured it in one sitting, staying up late into the night to find out how Alex and Poppy's story ends.

Thank you Netgalley for the advanced copy.

You and Me on Vacation is the cute summer read you will not be able to put down. It will make you laugh, it will make you sigh in frustration at the two main characters, trying to fix their friendship and work everything out and maybe become more.

Thank you very much the publisher and NetGalley for the digital copy in exchange for an honest review.

Actual rating: 4.5

Alex and Poppy couldn't be more different and in spite of that, they have the perfect friendship. They spend every summer vacation together, or at least they did, until they stopped talking after the last vacation to Croatia. However, after almost 2 years, Poppy is willing to put it all behind and to have one more trip so they can make amends.

The book alternates between their current vacation, in which they're trying to be friends again and all of the vacations they spent together in the past.

Well, Emily, you did it again! I loved these characters and the interaction between them so much. I loved the contrast between their personalities and the result of it and the way their friendship turns into something more is so subtle and yet so well done that I just couldn't believe it.

The author's humor is on point as usual and I laughed out loud several times, but there's also a ton of dramatic moments and she also knows how to navigate through those different situations very well. I also really enjoyed getting to know all of the places they visited and the adventures they had together.

The romance was the main part of the book? Of course, but I would say this is mainly a book about people. It's about Poppy and Alex growing up and figuring out what they want for their lives and learning how to change - or just staying the same in some cases, which is also valid - and appreciating what they really value.

However, even though I loved this book, I have to say I was a bit annoyed at times. I just wanted to yell: "Why the hell are you guys not together?" Most of the times I could understand the circumstances and everything, but sometimes I got a bit frustrated. Plus, in some parts throughout the book I was not 100% hooked like I was in her previous books.

The book is described as When Harry Met Sally meets One Day and I couldn't agree more. If you loved those love stories, you'll definitely love this one as well. If you don't know them, but if you're a friends to lovers fan, you'll definitely like this one as well. Honestly, I see no scenario where people do not enjoy this book.

Emily Henry’s writing is so believable and based in real life, yet still let’s you believe in the fantasy. And her grasp of witty dialogue doesn’t feel forced or contrived, which is a nice change of pace in the realm of romance.

Beach Read was one of the most hyped rom-coms of 2020, and after enjoying it, I was excited to be sent an invitation to read You and Me on Vacation on NetGalley. I really don't like the title (lol) but thankfully I enjoyed the book much much more, even staying up to an unholy hour to binge it ✨ My least favourite things about Beach Read were its cheesiness and earnestness, but this is such a genuinely lovely love story between two best friends, Poppy and Alex - and in this, the earnestness is completely fitting for a couple who have known each other for twelve years. Poppy and Alex have went on holiday together every summer since they first met at college in Chicago, but circumstances - Poppy's travel writer job in New York, and Alex's desire to live in their small Ohio hometown - have meant that it's their only real quality time together throughout the year. However, two years ago, something happened - and they haven't seen each other since.
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So - disclaimer - my fave type of rom-com is when they're friends first (which is strange because I would hate that in real life) so this was definitely catering to my favourite tropes. But this is absolutely going to be one of my go-to rom-coms from now on, it is so good and lovely and I'm sure I'll be thinking about the characters for a long time!! Get on the hype, You and Me on Vacation is out in July and I can't recommend it enough if you're in the mood for something quick and romantic!

First of all, can we clear up if this book is called people we meet on vacation or you and I on vacation because I don't want to start recommending the wrong title?
But anyway, can Emily Henry do no wrong?
I read her book beach read last year and it was one of my favourite books. I was gassed when I saw I had an ARC for this book and I honestly loved it.

I'm not really a friends to lovers kind of girl. I much prefer the angst and love/hate you get from enemies to lovers romance but this book might have changed my mind. I have never wanted two characters to be together so much. I was literally screaming at this book for them to kiss or something because they were honestly perfect for each other.
I loved the dual timelines and I think the then chapters gave so much depth to the story. Poppy was a funny narrator and Alex was honestly so adorable.
I loved the writing, I loved the plot and I think the only thing keeping me from rating this 5 stars is how much I loved beach read.

I received this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.