Emily Henry
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Release Date May 11, 2021
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?
From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.
Emily Henry is the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation. She writes stories about love and family for both teens and adults. She studied creative writing at Hope College and the New York Center for Art & Media Studies, and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Find her on Instagram @EmilyHenryWrites.
This focuses on Poppy and Alex, two best friends taking summer vacations consistently for over a decade and then something happened that kept them apart for two years. But in the present, we see their reconnection as we read about their past and unravel the good and the bad that happened with their friendship.
Poppy is a tiny, loud, vibrant travel blogger turned travel magazine writer. She has wanderlust and left their hometown as soon as she could in search of finding fulfillment and curing loneliness. Alex is her quiet, stoic, anxious, disciplined best friend who also happens to be tall, built, and handsome. He is more of a reserved academic, just wants to be accepted and loved, and thrives on stability.
Poppy is a tiny, loud, vibrant travel blogger turned travel magazine writer. She has wanderlust and left their hometown as soon as she could in search of finding fulfillment and curing loneliness. Alex is her quiet, stoic, anxious, disciplined best friend who also happens to be tall, built, and handsome. He is more of a reserved academic, just wants to be accepted and loved, and thrives on stability.
They seem like opposites but eventually become so close that they truly see each other and know each other better than anyone. But their future outlooks and goals always clashed. And one moment changed things so much that they lost two years. Will time apart and a new outlook change things for the better or worse?
It was easier to just enjoy their vacations and not deal with her actual issues and hide their feelings so that they didn’t rock the boat of their friendship. But when they did it anyway neither really reacted well and it caused an even bigger void. But now they have to figure out a way to make it work. They can’t go back to their old level of friendship no matter how they try, but they can’t move forward until they resolve the actual big issues between them and figure out what they both really want and need and come to some sort of resolution. Their vacations had been a reprieve from their real lives, but now they have to decide if being together is important enough to make changes and sacrifices to accommodate the other into their day-to-day lives and merge their different goals and planned futures. But it is scary because it has the potential to be a big win or huge loss...again.
It was easier to just enjoy their vacations and not deal with her actual issues and hide their feelings so that they didn’t rock the boat of their friendship. But when they did it anyway neither really reacted well and it caused an even bigger void. But now they have to figure out a way to make it work. They can’t go back to their old level of friendship no matter how they try, but they can’t move forward until they resolve the actual big issues between them and figure out what they both really want and need and come to some sort of resolution. Their vacations had been a reprieve from their real lives, but now they have to decide if being together is important enough to make changes and sacrifices to accommodate the other into their day-to-day lives and merge their different goals and planned futures. But it is scary because it has the potential to be a big win or huge loss...again.
This is a witty, quirky, slow-burn, heartfelt, friends-to-lovers novel. It is layered through the years and through your vacations and builds to this new adventure. I am not a big fan of time jumps and this one had plenty. I always seem to hate the interruption from the present to transition back. But the summer trips were the foundation of their friendship and also part of the demise so they were important. But I still felt myself reading fast to get back to the current day. This one had a plot point I do not think I have ever read in a romance book, but the character established clearly defined reasons to make such a choice. So it was an interesting twist.
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