Emily Henry does it again! She really is a great writer who can entertain her audience by likeable characters and heartfelt stories. Like her other books, Book Lovers, will be recommended to my friends, coworkers and family. Nora and Charlie will capture your heart and have you loving the enemies to lovers trope. Both characters are flawed, yet relatable. One of the greatest things about this story is the town it takes place in, as it is a character of the story itself. Love everything about this book and can't wait for Henry's next hit!

I really, really enjoyed this one. I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator did such a great job. Apart from that, the story was solid and I loved how Emily basically ridiculed every aspect of a small town romance whilst simultaneously creating one in this book. It was brilliantly done, and I really loved it.

i think this is finally where me and emily henry part ways. it's not that i hate all of her books (i only hated people we meet on vacation, and that's arguably her best according to everyone and their mother so not boding well for our relationship), it's just that i never really love them.

book lovers wasn't a bad book. it was a solid read that i won't think about again. it's just wasn't a romance (much like beach read wasn't) and i find that emily henry's books exhude this aura of self-importance, the I'm not like other romance books vibes that i find irritating. it's not that i think that that's emily henry's intention, but her books just read to me like they are desperately trying to be this high-browed version of romance which i dislike.

as far as this book goes, the sister bond did push this to 2.5 stars for me in the end, but throughout, i hated how nora treated libby. i liked charlie, i liked the banter, but none of the emotional beats really hit home for me, and i did not care much for their romance. also the whole bookish tropes thing was so corny and i really disliked it.

overall, i don't think this is the worst thing i ever read, but it did cement the feeling that emily henry's books just aren't for me. which is fine!! i am glad other people love them, i just won't be picking them up anymore.

I read this book in one sitting. Such an absolute delight. There was enough angst to keep the story moving but it never felt the characters were weighed down or that the conflict was forced. Easily Henry's best book to date.

The first book by Emily Henry I have read was "Beach Read" where you would think it is a fluff book but it is far from it. It has layers and witty dialogue. I'm often misled by her titles thinking it will be a superficial read.

It happened again but only this time, with Book Lovers. It is a story about family, grief, the bonds of sisterhood, and of course, love. I absolutely loved the characters, the crescendo of the romance was perfect. Loved the family dynamics and as always, the book draws you in.

I received an e-arc in exchange for an honest review, so thank you to NetGalley, the author, and publisher for this great e-arc.

This was so very, very perfect! Just a great summer read. Low angst, high romance... I just loved reading this one. What a way to kick off beach reads. The characters were great (and I may have seen myself a bit in Nora) and the plot moves along just perfectly. Loved everything about this!

I requested an ARC of Book Lovers from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Two humans in publishing who haven't got along in the past find themselves in a small town recently made famous by the book that one of them had a hand in publishing. They are both big city people, struggling to live in the small town life and find friendship with each other.

While fun and fluffy, this is the book that ended my recent romance binge. I finished Book Lovers bored with the enemies to lovers trope, bored with bookish humans in publishing being meta about working with books, bored with quirky small towns. Overall, the story felt long and the sex wanted to be steamy but was just something that read to get through to the next bit of the story. I think there was too much going on with the sister, the family trauma/dead parent, the shitty small town business they try to save.

Personally, this wasn't for me. I can see it being a fun beach read for someone who occasionally dips into romance. But I've definitely read better fun/tropey romances with more interesting characters, better pacing, and better steamy sex scenes. I wouldn't NOT recommend this, but I'd be really selective about the reader I'd recommend this to. A perfectly middle of the road romance.

Emily Henry is back with another hit! I was enchanted with Nora from the start, and Charlie was such a delight to get to know as well. Per usual, Henry's secondary characters were never frivolous, and always a much welcomed addition to the world she creates. Libby and Dusty helped flush out the main characters' emotional development. The romance was just the right amount of earnest, soft, and sweet. While those of us who are fans of the romance genre can always count on 2 enemy leads to fall in love, witty banter and a simultaneously emotionally crushing--and then uplifting--last 100 pages is not a given, but that is exactly what Henry delivers. This is an enemies to lovers romance that isn't afraid to lean into the romance aspect because the journey Nora takes to learn what she truly wants out of life never takes a back seat to Charlie. I read most of this with a smile on my face and am happily awaiting Henry's next creation.

I wanted to love this book. I really did. I just don't think this author is for me. She writes lovely stories as a whole, but I struggle to stay fully invested in the story. I have read all 3 of her books and, while this book is better than her second book, it still fails to live up to her first novel. I enjoyed the characters but wish there had been a little more excitement in the story.

Thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for this ARC.

I have loved Emily Henry's first two books. Her writing style just speaks to me. I started getting nervous about this book because it started receiving a lot of hype early on. And sometimes that is not good news. BUT I am thrilled to say, it completely held up to the hype and was better than I ever expected. I will have this at the top of my best summer reading list for sure. The writing is impeccable and the plot is unique and intriguing. Emily Henry does it again! This will totally be a summer hit. (I loved it so much I went and bought a hard copy for my shelf!) Thank you NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for this ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Dnf @ 25%

Thank you to Berkeley Publishing for sending me and eArc via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I’ve heard amazing things about Emily Henry’s books and while I own her first two novels, this was my first experience reading one of her books. Unfortunately, I could not get into this one. The premise seems fun: rival coworkers crossing paths in a small town, trying to fight their feelings for each other.
It’s marketed as an enemies-to-lovers romance, but that’s not what I got from what I read.

The beginning focuses heavily on Nora’s relationship with her sister. They’ve both shared a traumatic past involving their mother, and that’s mentioned a lot. You do get to see Nora interact with Charlie (the love interest) through their email (it’s 2022, why not just text) and the whole time they’re just bickering. And it’s not even cute bickering. It’s really annoying and made me roll my eyes a few times. The author is trying to hard to make it cute bickering. Nora is an unlikable MC. She supposed to be that way but there’s something about a book with a grumpy female and Sunshine male that just irks me. To me, the girl just comes off bitchy and I don’t like those characters.

Charlie and Nora eventually cross paths in a tiny small town featured in a novel written by their client. They meet in a bar and have a drink but the entire time they just sling insults back and forth. I like enemies to lovers and I like bickering, but only what it’s cute. This was just insults slung about.

Also nothing really happened. They start off in the big city, work a little, complain about their lives, go the country on a vacation and meet the love interest in a bar. All in 100 pages. There’s no action. It’s boring.

So unfortunately this book is not for me. I know tons of people will love it, but I’m just moving on.

Nora is a big city literary agent who doesn't believe in romance stories. In fact, she considers herself the anti-heroine of such love stories. But she loves her sister and agrees to spend some quality sister time in small town NC. But she keeps running into literary agent, Charlie, with whom she has a internal rivalry. Are they going to have a story book romance?

Emily Henry has done it again ... again! For the third year running, she has written a top book of my year. She just captures everything that I want in a romance in a completely new way, bringing fresh and engaging characters and relationship dynamics to create a truly satisfying reading experience.

Nora Stephens is a shark of a literary agent. She's good at her job and isn't sorry about that. But she's been shoved into the romance movie trope of "big city ice queen" that is dumped by the hero after he falls in love with a smalltown woman. It's happened to her several times in a real cruel twist of fate for a woman named after the great Nora Ephron. Charlie Lastra is a cutthroat editor. He's also very New York in his monochromatic black attire and acerbic manner. Charlie and Nora had one disastrous work meeting and have been at odds ever since.

Nora accompanies her younger sister Libby on a monthlong vacation to Sunshine Falls, the setting of Nora's client's latest book. The books picturesque setting isn't so picturesque in real life and it also contains Charlie. Nora and Charlie continue to run into each other as Nora works through Libby's "smalltown romance movie" checklist: dating a local, saving a struggling business, touching a horse, etc. Along the way, the antagonistic tension between Nora and Charlie turns to full-blown sexual tension. But Charlie won't commit to something when they both return to the city, and Nora tells herself it's fine. Besides, she has enough to worry about, since Libby is keeping secrets.

Once again, the dialogue between characters is so snappy and grounded in realism. Charlie and Nora crackle off the page in an amazing dynamic of true equals hitting and sparking against each other. (In this book, it's all about Charlie's awe-worthy eyebrows and intense eyes, the same way it was about Gus's Sexy Evil Eyes in "Beach Read" and Alex's Sad Puppy Face in "People We Meet on Vacation" -- although there is no cutesy name for them.) Nora and Charlie are brutally honest about each other and about the failings of Sunshine Falls, and it's all foreplay, baby. I gobbled it up.

As for Nora's relationship with Libby: it's heart-wrenching. Their mother, who was a struggling actress, is a mythic character in their shared history. Her death affected the sisters very differently, with Nora taking on the role of parent and Libby the role of protected child. They love each other unquestioningly, but their dynamic hasn't quite evolved the way they both need to it to, and that has created distance and tension. Nora wants to smooth things over for Libby and Libby wants to be in charge of her own life. The way they remember their mother is varied, too, and those differences shade the way they see each other and the other big character in the book: New York City.

Even though the book is set elsewhere, the all-powerful NYC is a major player. Nora is completely enamored with the city and the way a person can exist in its infinite possibilities and tight crush of humanity. Charlie understands this too, as he never felt he belonged anywhere (especially not in his hometown) until he moved to New York in college. Charlie and Nora connect through their mutual love of the city, and they way Charlie articulates it is one of the early ways he and Nora begin to bond as friends rather than adversaries.

This is slightly spicier than than the two books proceeding it, and I liked that. It's still not spicy by any means, but what does exist on the page is excellently crafted and narratively appropriate. Charlie might be my favorite male lead yet!

| I received an ARC through NetGalley, and this is my honest, freely given review. |

I really liked this title and if I seemed surprised by this elevation, it may be because I am. It began to read like "oh, poor NYC girl can't find love boohoo" but it's way more sophisticated than that. The backstories of the heroine and hero made sense and was believable. You could feel their previous pain shaping and forming them through the actions and decisions. I liked how the ending was a "do they or don't they" and I think I threatened to throw my kindle if we couldn't get a definitive answer. I'm glad for how it turned out. It gave me hope.

Emily Henry has become contemporary romance royalty, and I think Book Lovers is my new favorite. I felt like I was living in a Nora Ephron movie, and Henry's gift for banter is on full display here. I laughed out loud often and teared up as well. It's a perfect roller coaster that's built for rereading.

Emily Henry is very quickly becoming my favourite contemporary romance author and it's easily because of her heroes. I adored Charlie Lastra, like how was he so perfect? And Nora being so high strung and wanting to take care of her sister with every fibre of her being was extremely well done. Getting to read their love story and watch it develop was an amazing experience and I'm sad to say that I binged this book way too fast. I look forward to reading it again in a coupe of months and being sucker punched by all the feelings it brought on the first time.

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for providing me with an arc for an honest review.

This book would make a great summer beach read. Is it predictable? Yes. Was it what I needed it to be and still enjoyable? Also yes. Nora is kind of snarky and I found her pretty funny as someone who is a shark in her professional life. I enjoyed the exchanges between her and Charlie.

Oh. My. God.

PRRFECTION. Absolute perfect.

I adore a good rivals to lovers romance and the execution here was so well done.

I loved the characters, the setting, the humor… the nod to mister erotica had me rolling.

I absolutely adored this novel.

Summer Reading ☀️ Thank you, Berkley Publishing, for the gifted copy of Book Lovers {partner}

Genre: Romance
Trope: Enemies to Lovers? Office?
Format: 📖
Pub Date: 5.3.2022
Star Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

"That's life. You're always making decisions, taking paths that lead you away from the rest before you could see where they ended. Maybe that's why we s a species love stories so much. All those chances for do-overs, opportunities to live the lives we'll never have."

Well, folks, I do believe I have my favorite romance of 2022. Emily Henry has always written books that appeal to book lovers, but this one? This story is extra special and holds a place in my heart. I may have cried the last 25% of the book because it was simply… perfect. Nora is the main character that I have been waiting for, and I want to read Book Lovers again and again.

I loved how Henry gave her characters flaws at the beginning of the story — I was annoyed and thinking, "whyyyy are you doing this, Emily Henry?". But, alas, she knew what she was doing and when the character flaws were explained, it made sense, and I was left feeling like I probably shouldn't judge a character by their flaws 🙈

Then there's Charlie, and isn't he just the most lovable grump I've read? I've seen comparisons between Charlie & Roy (from Ted Lasso), and I must say, it fits, and I love every bit. The banter between him and Nora was sweet and natural — even when it was occurring through text messages.

👍🏼 Relatable
📖 Book inside a book
🔥 One sexy library scene
😍 Charlie
🙌🏼 Nora
📝 Beautiful quotes to remember
🤩 Definite re-read

Every page of Book Lovers was a delight, and I can't wait to read the next book that Emily Henry writes. In the meantime, I'll just be over here re-reading Book Lovers. But, seriously, add this witty, heartfelt, and satisfying book to your reading list today.

This was my first Emily Henry book, and I am excited to read more! Adorable. I had so much fun and will absolutely recommend this to people looking for a fun romcom beach read this summer! :)