YOU AND ME ON VACATION

SYNOPSIS

TWO FRIENDS

TEN SUMMER TRIPS

THEIR LAST CHANCE TO FALL IN LOVE

12 SUMMERS AGO: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they'll never speak again.

11 SUMMERS AGO: They're forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact: every year, one vacation together.

10 SUMMERS AGO: Alex discovers his fear of flying on the way to Vancouver.

Poppy holds his hand the whole way.

7 SUMMERS AGO: They get far too drunk and narrowly avoid getting matching tattoos in New Orleans.

2 SUMMERS AGO: It all goes wrong.

THIS SUMMER: Poppy asks Alex to join her on one last trip. A trip that will determine the rest of their lives.

Title: You and me on vacation

Author: Emily Henry

Publisher: Penguin

Publication date: July 22, 2021

REVIEW

RATING: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Let me start saying I wasn’t the biggest fan of Beach Read so, even though the premise of You and me on vacation sounded really cute and fun, I came into it with some reserves. I was WRONG! It was cute, fun and much more!

Poppy and Alex have been friends since their college days and each year they go on a summer vacation as a way to not lose touch with each other, but a couple of years back something happened that ended their friendship. Will they be able to rekindle it with a new trip?

I loved both characters but I gotta confess that Alex took a while to grow up on me. After his first scenes I could only think “oh god, what a boring man!”, but with Poppy’s help he soon started coming out of his shell and he became a much more attractive character.

I’m not usually a big fan of the friends to lovers trope but here it was cute and well developed until the end. I found the last part dragged along a little bit. Why do people like to unnecessarily complicate their lives? If she loves you and you love her why keep trying to find fault in your/her feelings and keep denying yourself happiness?

It was nice to take so many vacations in just one book, especially when I don’t know when I’ll be able to take a real one, but all that back and forth between past and present made me lose track sometimes of what point their relationship was at. All the build towards the reason behind their estrangement was a bit disappointing as I was expecting something truly earth shattering.

All in all a really nice rom-com that will be the perfect beach read (pun intended) this summer.

Thanks to NetGalley and Penguin for providing an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

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