Books Lovers is one of my favorite books of the year. I loved the main character and the entire premise was charming and enjoyable. The sisters remained central to the story even though it’s a romance. The family dynamics are complex and interesting. I loved the love in the book. The romance was sweet and satisfying. The characters’ senses of humor were a great addition to the book.

EMILY HENRY STRIKES AGAIN

I do think that if you preferred Beach Read to PWMOV, you'll LOVE this. I personally preferred PWMOV, and it's still by far my favourite of her books but I enjoyed this more than I enjoyed Beach Read so it's kind of a good in-between.

There is more exploration of parental grief, and OH MY GOD Nora and Libby's sister relationship was so heartbreaking and made me cry several times. Nora was a decent main character, I didn't relate to her personally but I enjoyed reading her perspective. Charlie was hot AF and the spice was top tier.

Plot-wise, I love how this book played with classic 'hallmark movie' tropes in a very self-aware way, and I felt like it was extremely enjoyable to read.

I LOVED this book and couldn't put it down. This book is very self-aware and puts a spin on romance tropes. Emily Henry knows how to write characters that have depth and that you fall in love with and cheer for. The banter was top notch and the plot kept me guessing and interested throughout.

I highly recommend this book for those who like a good romance with complex characters.

I loved this book so much! I’m an Emily Henry fan but this book is far and away my favorite book by her. I loved all the call outs to different Hallmark movie troupes, the small town setting, all of it. Usually people who are so pro NYC anti anywhere else in the world annoy me in books but the way Henry wrote Nora and her relationship to NYC I absolutely loved. I loved the chemistry between Nora and Charlie so much and really appreciated how they acted with each other. They seemed like real grown ups that talked about their issues, unlike Nora’s sister who was one of the few things in the book that annoyed me. I wanted to tell her to grow up but I also wanted Nora to be more assertive with her. I absolutely loved this book and have already recommended it to so many people.

Emily Henry has given us another delightful romance. I loved the reverse trope and the insight into publishing and agents. This will particularly appeal to, you guessed it, book lovers.

I loved this one from the first page to the last. From the start, there's a self-awareness about this book that makes it a delight to read. Yes, you're getting a trope -- ice queen, enemies-to-lovers, etc. -- but is it really what you think? The tropes become tools to consider what's actually going on in the story and with these characters. So much of this story has nothing to do with romance, though Henry is really good at writing the banter and the swoon and the steam, too. The story explores grief and family relationships, expectations and ambition without feeling preachy. And yes, it's a romance, so everything works out in the end, but it all felt earned. I suspected I knew how it was going to wind up, but honestly wasn't sure until it happened that it would.

I've liked and recommended Henry's other books, but this one is my favorite.

Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced copy.

Emily Henry has done it again. Her characters always have such fun, realistic, and delightful chemistry, and Sam and Nora are no different. I can't want to recommend this to literally everyone I know.

No one writes witty dialogue like Henry and the flirty tension in her books is palpable and delicious.

Absolutely lovely. Emily Henry is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. I love the characters she creates - such snark from these two, I love it - and they almost make me believe that some people are meant to be.

This book has a smart new take on the“city girl finds love in a small town” trope in romance novels. I loved the witty banter and that the main character’s evolving relationship with her sister was as prominent as her new romance. The story did drag at times for me and some of the steamy scenes could be cut, but overall I enjoyed it.

I loved Beach Read by Emily Henry, but this one was her best yet. I connected with the characters, but the plot was equally engaging. I thought at first it might be a bit flat because of the setting and their jobs being in the book world, but I was delightfully wrong. The characters had so much depth to them, and the plot kept me guessing. I loved finding out more about the characters' pasts as the book went along. The relationships developed in a seamlessly way, that was also fully of respect for one another. A fantastic read that I've thought about since finishing.

As a prickly book lover myself, this story spoke to my soul. This was much more then your typical romance novel. Yes, there was a sizzling “haters turned to lovers” romance, but there was so much more offered as well. There was the true, consuming love of a great book. There was the MC’s deep love for her city, and there was the complex and beautiful love between sisters. Emily Henry did an amazing job combining all these great loves into one well written and truly engaging story.
Thank you NetGalley for a digital copy in exchange for an honest review.
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This was so fun! An ode to books and small towns and finding your people on the weirdest of places. I know I read and enjoyed Beach Read, but I forgot it soon after. This one features characters who may not be lovable to everyone but I recognized them, especially their New York-ness. Thanks to Netgalley for this one.

Emily Henry does it again. This book is so well-rounded that I would classify it more as Women's Fiction than simply Romance. Her characters are complex, realistic, and easy to love. If you've ever been described as cold or frigid, and felt discouraged from love (romantic, familial, or otherwise) - this book is for you.

Emily Henry has become something of a breakout over the last year and I was really excited to get my hands on Book Lovers and finally see what the hype was all about! This is a very meta book, with characters who are aware of the tropes they embody and explicate this. Nora, our protagonist, is a literary agent based in NYC who's cultivated a cutthroat image for herself that's led her to the top of her field. Yet, it's also seemingly pushed away the men in her life who have routinely left her for women straight out of a Hallmark movie. When her sister suggests a girls' trip to small town USA (aka. Sunshine Falls) she begrudgingly agrees and then stumbles into her work rival. The dark, brooding Charlie Lastra is as much a fish out of water in this small town as her except... there is more to him being there than it seems. What follows is a rivals to lovers romance that attempts to knowingly navigate the tropes and archetypes we're all so familiar with while also juggling a deeper reflection on family and sisterhood.

I really wanted to like this one but felt it was almost too self-aware for its own good and indulged in tired tropes rather than subverting them. The constant references to other media and cheesy similes often took me out of the book. While I like that there was more to both Nora and Charlie than just the romance between them the conflict between Nora and her sister Libby often felt strung out. Maybe my expectations were too high going in but I just wanted more from this.

I really enjoyed this book. Emily Henry is able to keep her writing so simple yet perfect. This book includes pop culture references but manages to hit the mark every time keeping them funny. I loved all the characters and her writing creates such a deep character connection to readers. This is by far my favorite out of her books and I am so excited to reread once it hits the selfs. Nora works in the world of writing and frequently references tropes that appear in romance books, which makes the plot feel so down to earth. This is a super cute love story that kept me hooked the entire time; and I often found myself with a smile on my face.

All of the references to book tropes hooked me in the beginning, but I grew to love this story of a woman learning to love her sister and herself well while also falling in love with a book editor full of witty comments.

Nora, the control freak because of a sudden loss of her Mom. Constantly looking after everyone, and not herself.

Libby, the carefree younger sister…who has 2 kids, and a third on the way. Keeping her own secrets from her sister, who has taken on a mothering role since the death of their mother.

Charlie, the guy you think you want to dislike…turns out to be someone who comes with his own baggage, but is exactly what Nora needs to help recognize her self sabotaging ways are holding her back from her future dreams.

An enemies to lovers small town romance with a (gentle) twist. Book readers love books about books, and this one has that beyond covered. Is it strange that the hottest thing about the love interest was his preference for G2 pens? No, because Emily Henry knows her audience.

This was a fun, light read. The story picked up in the second half and sucked me in, even though I'm not a heavy romance reader. No doubt this will be another success for Henry.

My heart just burst when I saw a new Emily Henry title available on NetGalley. BOOK LOVERS! Even the title was exciting! I started it a few weeks ago, and stopped. I didn't want to finish it. I wanted to stay in this book forever. It wasn't until I was almost finished with this book, that Emily Henry's own writing explained the emotions I was feeling: "Some books you don't read so much as live, and. finishing one of those always makes me thinking of ascending from a scuba dive. Like if I surface too fast I might get the bends."

This is exactly how I felt reading Book Lovers. I was completely sucked in on the very first page, and I was completely intoxicated with Nora's life, her sister Libby, and her relationship with Charlie. I loved the involvement of tropes in this story. Nora was the heartless shark that men leave for daughters of farmers or some other Hallmark small town vocation. It was easy for her to keep everyone in these boxes in order to keep control of her life. While this was a romance, this was most certainly about sister relationships (which I always love). Libby and Nora together were so very real. The ending was just, ugh, I won't say anything else about it, but I wish I could go back to when I first opened this book on my Kindle and read it again for the first time.