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Book Review: People We Meet on Vacation
Aug. 21st, 2021 04:04 pm“Your style is, like, 1960s Parisian bread maker’s daughter bicycling through her village at dawn, shouting Bonjour, le monde whilst doling out baguettes.”
After all this World War I reading, I needed something light, and because I’d enjoyed Emily Henry’s Beach Read so much, I turned to her new book People We Meet on Vacation.
Just what the doctor ordered! The conceit of the book is that Poppy and her best friend Alex have been going on a summer trip every year for the past twelve years… except Something Went Wrong on their trip to Croatia two years ago, and they’ve barely talked since. So not only do we get the present day trip where they try to reconnect, but also snippets from nearly a dozen vacations past, too.
This did fan the flames of my unappeasable wanderlust, but such is life! Maybe when you can’t travel, the next best thing is reading books about travel?
Also, Emily Henry is just so good at capturing how millennials talk, right down to the slightly self-conscious obsession with being millennials. I particularly love the bit where Poppy is making her dinner, and thinking about how she’s going to have to make dinner for herself every day! For the rest of her life! And that’s so many dinners, it will never end, she will have to do it even when she’s got a fever of 102, because there will be no one there to do it for her…
Not sure if that is a millennial mood or just a mood that I have sometimes, but. Such a mood.
I mostly liked the romance while I was reading, but the more I think about it, the more reservations I have, because ( Spoilers )
It’s testament to the incredible charm of Poppy’s voice that I found this only mildly aggravating as I read the book. Will these two crazy kids make it? I really have no idea, but I loved watching them try.
After all this World War I reading, I needed something light, and because I’d enjoyed Emily Henry’s Beach Read so much, I turned to her new book People We Meet on Vacation.
Just what the doctor ordered! The conceit of the book is that Poppy and her best friend Alex have been going on a summer trip every year for the past twelve years… except Something Went Wrong on their trip to Croatia two years ago, and they’ve barely talked since. So not only do we get the present day trip where they try to reconnect, but also snippets from nearly a dozen vacations past, too.
This did fan the flames of my unappeasable wanderlust, but such is life! Maybe when you can’t travel, the next best thing is reading books about travel?
Also, Emily Henry is just so good at capturing how millennials talk, right down to the slightly self-conscious obsession with being millennials. I particularly love the bit where Poppy is making her dinner, and thinking about how she’s going to have to make dinner for herself every day! For the rest of her life! And that’s so many dinners, it will never end, she will have to do it even when she’s got a fever of 102, because there will be no one there to do it for her…
Not sure if that is a millennial mood or just a mood that I have sometimes, but. Such a mood.
I mostly liked the romance while I was reading, but the more I think about it, the more reservations I have, because ( Spoilers )
It’s testament to the incredible charm of Poppy’s voice that I found this only mildly aggravating as I read the book. Will these two crazy kids make it? I really have no idea, but I loved watching them try.
