Loved this book! I responded so much to Nora and her feelings of control, although it went a little over the top at the end, but I still understood her. Charlie was great, complicated and realistic and I LOVED them together! Best Emily Henry read yet!

THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING!! So hard to put down. I love, love, love Nora and Charlies' story. Looking forward to reading more by Emily Henry.

How fitting that I was reading it during National Library Week when we embrace book lovers! While I didn't enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed Emily Henry's other books I have read, it was still an interesting read and held my attention. It definitely made me want to visit Sunshine Falls to see if it lives up to the book.

I like that this book dove deeper into the characters and things they were dealing with (ex: grief over losing mother; grappling with living their lives for them and not for others) and wasn't just your typical mushy gushy romance novel. Although some times I thought things were a little over-the-top, the characters felt real to me and like they were realistic.

Looking forward to Emily Henry's next book.

Emily Henry has really found her niche. This book is fun and sexy while tackling difficult family dynamics, trauma and quite a bit of angst. It is much like Beach Read in that regard but it doesn't feel like it is just telling that story again. I look forward to the next one!

This was so good! I've read Emily Henry's other books and she just keeps getting better. This story was fantastic and I just loved everything about it. The chemistry between Nora and Charlie is just so great. I would highly recommend this story.

I really wanted to love this book. After reading Emily Henry’s two other books, Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation, I expected a win. I found the relationship between the two sisters, Nora and Libby, to be contrived. Libby talks Nora into a break from her city life and they find themselves in the small town of Sunshine Falls, I had to laugh! Nora’s book editor nemesis, Charlie, shows up in the same small town. He has a backstory there and, in the end, I found the story to be neatly tied up.
I’d recommend this book to anyone who wants a light, summer read. It was not as enjoyable to me as her past books; however it is solid summer entertainment.

Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. This is another enjoyable read from Emily Henry about Nora, a literary agent, who is absorbed by her work. She takes a trip with her sister Libby and decides she will have an adventure but instead bumps into Charlie a bookish editor from back home. Both Nora and Charlie have own their personal stories down to a T but maybe they can write a new one together?

In this novel brilliantly plotted like a Hallmark holiday movie (without the Christmas), protagonist Nora, a shark-like NYC literary agent, has lost not one but four boyfriends to the trope of "went out of town on business, met a local girl, saved her family's business instead of destroyed it, had a complete change of morals and heart and breaks up with her." The most recent dumping coincides with a late lunch meeting with notoriously grumpy editor Charlie, to invite him to edit author Dusty's latest manuscript. He passes. Their verbal sparring is foreplay, but neither knows it yet.

Fast forward two years, and Libby, Nora's sister, pregnant with her third child, wants a babymoon with her big sister and drags Nora off the not-so-charming Sunshine Farms for a vacation, complete with an irresistible checklist that includes hiking, horse-petting, makeovers, baking and camping--elements of a grownup, multiple- week- long slumber party. Special items for Nora include dates with not one, but two, hot local men.

One of whom turns out to be a certain book editor, born and raised in Sunshine Falls, running his mom's bookstore while his dad recovers from a second stroke... Nora can't be completely "off" on her vacation, because her best-selling and sensitive author is working on a new novel, featuring a rather bloodthirsty and seemingly irredeemable Cruella DeVil of a film agent whose characterization is hitting a little too close to home for Nora's taste. When Dusty's agent goes into labor prematurely, Charlie takes over the book, forcing he and Nora to work together. Meanwhile, Libby is hatching a plot to save the ailing bookshop.

This is a gem of a book from the pacing, the plot, the characters. The voice is pitch perfect. The baggage Nora and Libby need to work through is real and not over the top: their single actress/waitress mom who adored New York and made being broke fun; their dad who abandoned them; Libby's focus on family and Nora's on career; their sweet and loving but high stakes sibling relationship which Nora perceives as forcing her into a rescuer role. The subplot of a mini-mystery about what's going on between Libby and her husband Brendan is a nice little side story.

The banter between Nora and Charlie and Nora and her sister is fun, snarky and just wonderfully written. The attraction between Nora and Charlie is real, palpable and a bit gut wrenching. Motifs are just so beautifully carried through, from Nora and Charlie's crashing into one another to the analogy of their relationship being like a great book that leaves you with a lingering heartache. NYC and Sunshine Falls are both lovingly rendered in their exquisite gory, run-down, lush and gorgeous details.

I have a stack of ARCS to read, but right now, I'm going to finish the paperback copy of People We Meet on Vacation, because I loved Beach Read, loved Book Lovers, and can't get enough of Emily Henry right now.

I received an advance reader's review copy of #BookLovers from #NetGalley.

Bummed that I DNF this one. This is the 3rd book agent themed book I've tried recently...and the 3rd I haven't been able to get through. I am a book lover, a book reader, a library worker, and I guess I need to realize that books about the publishing side of things just aren't my forte...thanks for the opportunity to read and review this book. I will try again another time.

OMG THIS BOOK WAS SO AMAZING! I laughed, I cried, I saw myself in Nora. This was a wonderfully capturing book and I can't wait to read more Emily Henry!

If I could rate this 6 stars I would. This book was utterly phenomenal and had so much exploration of characters. I loved how Henry combined big city with small town romance and the dynamic between the two main characters. a must read

I haven't had much luck with Emily Henry, but this book I really loved! Loved the indpendent and strong woman, small town and related family and hi-jinks.

This is one of my favorite books ever. I love the snarky chemistry between Charlie and Nora, I love the witty banter between Nora and Libby, and I love the descriptions of NYC and Sunshine Falls. I've listened to it several times and Julia Whelan just brings these characters to life and I can't imagine a more perfect pairing of her vocal skills and Emily Henry's writing. This is a must read!!!

This book was so so so good. It was so cute. I really enjoyed it. I loved the characters and I loved the dynamic between them. I really enjoyed the love story that was going on as well. I really like Emily Henry's writing. its easy to read and easy to fall in love with the story.

This was so good and I highly recommend it.

Hate to love is my favorite trope and Emily did not disappoint as always. She quickly became a favorite romance writer. This book is cute, it’s funny..it’s just an all around good time. The sister’s relationship was definitely a fave.

I thought this was absolutely delightful. I loved how the book explored in the middle in particular, by using the idea of the whole trope, that we try to fit people into neat little packages too, similar to how people say x genre is all the same, but there’s always more going on.

I absolutely fell in love with these characters! This book had home town hallmark vibes, big city settings, love, and was more than just a romance story. Meeting in New York, Nora and Charlie are in both in the book industry where competiveness is the rule. Both being the hard hitters and known as the hard-asses of their areas, they inevitably collide. Unexpectantly meeting again in a small town where a the book they first fought over was set, they are both working on other family realtionships and have no time to start a romance.
Twists and turns, feelings and faux pauxs make this one of the most relatable books I've read in a while. I love the hard edges that both Nora and Charlie have as well as the soft centers their passion for each other begins to show. Emiy Henry is a master at making you feel like you are a part of every realationship that is being formed or recreated. Don't miss this one.

I think Emily Henry is just not for me. I DNFed this book after 100 pages. Something about her writing style just doesn't work in my brain. Her witty banter often doesn't make sense to me, and the characters are just not anyone I seem to ever care about. I also really don't love enemies to lovers tropes so maybe this is on me for reading this one. This book started off SO well and I was really into it, but after about 20 pages things just went downhill. Every ten pages or so I would get back into the story for a few pages and then it would lose me again. I don't know. I just don't get it and didn't see any reason to keep reading. I may try one more of her books because people are obsessed, but so far the two I've read have just not been for me.

Thank you to Berkley Romance and NetGalley for access to this advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

It was the book of 2022, there is a reason. This was a book for book lovers, writers, and those in publishing around. I would say this is more of a women's fiction novel highlighting sister relationships than the romantic relationship. I was looking for a bit more with the romance aspect of this book.

I haven't read much romance but first I grabbed it on NetGalley based solely on the title and cover (I'm a sucker for book themed books!) and then multiple people recommended this one to me so I finally checked it out. And it was a fun read, I just found it a bit too predictable. Plus, I just didn't get enough buy in to them being enemies in the beginning so there wasn't as much tension as I was expecting. But for an easy, escapist, beach-type read this definitely fit the bill! (And I did appreciate the meta book theme ;-) )