This friends to lovers romance follows Ethan and Charley on a road trip while exploring their past and present.
I really enjoyed the backstory given and I think that the dual timeline is super cute and needed for this story. I love their history and their current story. The tension and the passion between them is just so good and so perfect.
The story as a whole was really funny, I found myself giggling a lot. I also love the chapter names. They made me want to keep reading, even after I said I’d stop reading and go to bed after the last chapter. I do wish there was a playlist since music plays such a big role in the book but it’s not needed.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC!

Anywhere with you is a friends-to-lovers adventure romance following Ethan and Charley in both the present and the past.

After her marriage falls apart, Charley's best friend Ethan comes back in her life just in time for them to roadtrip to her sister's wedding.

It is entirely clear from early on that Ethan is so far gone for Charley and is willing to be patient. He has some shining moments as the MMC.

My hang up is on Charley's emotional journey. She is essentially "not seeing" Ethan or other obvious problem in her life throughout the book and then sees the errors in her way all at once, which just wasn't a satisfying way to reach her resolution for me. I also struggled because she had an ugly fight with her sister where they both said things, but somehow at then end, only Charley is taking responsibility for what was said and that's just okay, somehow.

Unfortunately this book was a very slow read for me. That said, I think my problem's with it had to do with my compatibility with the book and not the book itself!

f you're a fan of authors like Abby Jimenez and Jessica Joyce, you'll love Anywhere with You!

This friends-to-lovers road trip romance follows Charley and Ethan, best friends since childhood. Their bond has endured moves, career changes, and travels—until Charley gets engaged. As her wedding approaches, Ethan starts pulling away, and after her marriage falls apart within a year, she reaches out to him.

They effortlessly fall back into their old rhythm, and Charley couldn't be happier. But when her impulsive sister decides to elope, Charley convinces Ethan to embark on a road trip to stop the wedding. Along the way, they uncover truths about themselves and their friendship that could change everything.

My Thoughts:
I absolutely loved the banter between the characters! The dialogue is sharp, witty, and full of laugh-out-loud moments. I was completely invested in Charley and Ethan, rooting for them to overcome their fears and take a chance on something more. Ethan, the calm and easygoing friend, has hidden depths that make him even more endearing, while Charley, the Type-A planner, slowly realizes that she’s always been Ethan’s first choice.

I highly recommend this heartwarming, funny, and emotional romance!

I really love a good road trip book with cozy heartwarming vibes. And this book was just it!
Ellie Palmer made a good work with Anywhere with you.

The story is best friends to lovers, and I always plotting for those story lines, they are so fragile, so tender.
Charley and Ethan are goals. They are so afraid of losing their friendship. Adorable!

I can recommend this book to everyone who enjoys rom-coms, quick and warm readings. It's very a hard to put down book!

I love Ellie’s writing. She has a way of drawing you in. This book was such a sweet best friends to lovers romance but the sister relationship might be my favorite part. There were also several parts that had me cackling. I’ve been anxiously waiting her next book since and this one definitely delivered!

Thank you SO much to NetGalley and the author for the amazing opportunity to read this book before its release- I am indebted to you. I think that this is my favorite book that I’ve read in a very long time. It all felt so raw and emotional and I loved every minute of it.
I am absolutely in love with Charley and Ethan. It is so clear from the start that they both want the same thing but are so afraid of losing each other again. This story (in multiple ways) is an incredible use of Friends to Lovers and I think until now, I’d forgotten how much I love that trope. I also found all the parallels between the past and the present super interesting. As well as the juxtaposition of Charley and Laurel where they begin on opposite sides with their perspectives on relationships and at some point, it’s almost as if they switch; Charley takes on the role of the pessimist who thinks she wasn’t made for eternal love and Laurel is dead set on rectifying her past mistakes by getting married.
Ultimately, I thoroughly enjoyed Charley and Ethan as well as Lauren and Petey. I finished this book feeling absolutely smitten and wearing a huge smile.
🌷☀️⛺️🩵
“All we have is connection, right? All we are is how well we’re loved by the people we care about and how well we love them back. Nothing else can be more important than that.”

This was very cute. I love a single POV where the MMC has been in love/obsessed the whole time. Overall I really loved this but it did feel like a few things were missing - I feel like she needed a little more work on her inner emotions before going in to her relationship with Ethan. And I feel like her parents were both a big part of her story but also not explored enough. But it was cute and sweet!

I absolutely loved this sophomore novel from Ellie Palmer! From the very beginning, it was an absolute romp! Charley was such a fun character that I instantly related to and was rooting for this whole time. The romantic tension between Ethan and Charley was so deliciously drawn out and I loved being able to see how their past related to everything that was happening in the present. I felt like this whole novel was a rom-com that I could definitely see on the big screen one day! This was a super short and fun read that I think anyone who loves a good rom-com will really enjoy! Thank you so much to NetGalley, Penguin Group, and Ellie Palmer for allowing me to read and review this!!

Could Charley and Ethan be any more adorable? Probably not. Literally a beautiful ride of a story and I think this author will be a must read for me in the future.

Was very excited to jump into this book after loving Ellie Palmer's debut! I also love childhood besties > lovers and couldn't turn the pages faster! I loved the nostalgia and depth their relationship had. I loved the roadtrip/van. The MMC being so gone, OOF it was good! I wish they had maybe a little more communication? But overall loved their relationship!

Palmer’s writing was so done so well, it offers a comforting reminder that not having your life all figured out is okay. this was quick and fun and I had a good time

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Charley Beekman grew up with an unreliable dad, who when not moving his family around for work, would leave them for long periods of time. Because of this she craves stability. But when her “stabile” marriage ends when her husband asks for a divorce she’s forced to reevaluate her life. When her older sister calls to tell her she’s marrying her long time on again off again boyfriend, she’s determined to keep her from the same fate of divorce. Now along with her estranged childhood best friend the two head on an epic roadtrip to stop her sister’s wedding. But old feelings start to come to light. Can Charley let go of her need for control to be with Ethan?

I loved Ms. Palmer’s book Four Weekends and a Funeral and was really excited to read this one. I have to admit, it was really hard to connect with Charley. I found the scenes where she admitted to being someone she’s not in order to attract a man painful. She plans out her whole life to the last detail in order to not be hurt. What she doesn’t realize until the end is that she’s hurting herself in the process. While she ends the novel differently than she began, I didn’t feel like we went on a journey. We’re just kind of told that she’s decided to make all of these changes and that’s that. It would’ve been helpful to see her through Ethan’s POV to give us a sense of her as a whole person. I enjoyed their banter but didn’t feel the chemistry between them.

The side characters were fun. and a shout out to Petey the lovable, golden retriever BIL. It was an enjoyable enough novel, but there was something missing for me.

*Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book!*

Ellie Palmer does it again! The author of "Four Weekends and a Funeral" is officially an auto-read writer for me. I love her writing style, wit, compelling characters, and just generally everything about her books. I got an arc of FWAAF last year around this time, and was pleasantly surprised with just how amazing Palmer is as an author.

"Anywhere With You" doesn't disappoint either! Though I generally find plots with the miscommunication trope ("We could never work!") a bit tired and played out, I still fell hard for Ethan and Charley's adorable love story. If you love rom-coms, you will too! I can't wait for this book to be released so I can go buy it, and my one complaint is that I wished E&C got together before the very, very end! Third-act breakups be damned!

Thank you, Ellie Palmer! Can't wait for Book #3!

As a huge fan of Ellie Palmer's debut novel, Four Weekends and a Funeral, I was thrilled to be able to read an ARC of Anywhere With You! So well written with emotion-filled, humorous dialogue among likeable characters. I'm a sucker for a sentimental MMC who isn't afraid to communicate his feelings, and Ethan fits the bill! A lighthearted romcom with added complexity in terms of exploring familial conflict and an exploration of one's personal sense of self worth. An added bonus was the creative chapter titles - loved that touch!

3.5 stars, rounded up

I loved Ellie Palmer's "Four Weekends and a Funeral" so I immediately ran to read this after I was approved. I did enjoy this, the only reason it wasn't a full four stars for me was because I struggled to fully connect with Charley. With that said though, I loved all the other characters, I thought the supporting characters were super quirky and fun.

Despite not fully connecting with the MC, I read this in one sitting and couldn't stop until I got to the end.

I recommend Elli Palmer and can't wait to read her next books!!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Another fantastic read by Ellie Palmer! This fun second chance friends to lovers was such a fun read. Lots of humor, chaos, personal growth and touching moments. I couldn’t put it down.

Charley having grown up constantly moving around and without a stable marriage example finds herself craving nothing but boring stability as an adult. However, her stable job requires all of her time and doesn’t seem to bring her any joy, and her “perfect” man, MR. stable himself divorces her after only a year. Finding herself at a new low in life her free spirit sister informs her she is getting married in the woods to her long time on again off again boyfriend. Charley of course is convinced this is the worst possible thing in the world.

Enter Ethan, her best friend since childhood, singer, songwriter, camper van owner, life long wanderer. Pretty much the exact opposite of Charley’s vision of adulthood. Together in his camper van they set out to attend the wedding, and possibly stop it altogether if Charley has her way. Along they way new and old feelings come to the surface, and Charley and Ethan are forced to talk about their history and possibly their future.

I really enjoyed the journey Charley goes on, being forced to see that maybe her past wasn’t exactly what she thought it was. That her sister will always be there for her, and that sometimes love is actually worth the risk of losing it all.

Thank you to Netgalley for an ARC of this title.
The book started off strong and as a Minnesotan I did appreciate the Minnesotan connection.
Charley Beekman is thriving. Is she financially strapped, languishing in her legal career, and very likely the youngest divorcee at the Ruth's Chris Steakhouse on a Friday night? Yes. But, now that she's accepted the flaws inherent in all romantic relationships, she finally has life all figured out! She's definitely due for an upswing.
So when her free-spirited sister announces her plan to elope with her messy on-again-off-again childhood sweetheart, Charley knows she has to stop the wedding, even if it means road-tripping into the northern woods of Minnesota in a camper van with her childhood best friend, Ethan, who’s as gorgeous as he is chronically unreliable.
I was very engaged with this book at the beginning and appreciated the coming back from divorce/second chance romance trope of it all. That bein said the book seemed to fall apart about halfway through and I found myself not only being bored, but being confused with the dual timeline chapters.
This is the second Elle Palmer book I have read and I do not think these books are for me. While I appreciate Romance books with Minnesota settings, this book left me relatively bored. I give it 3 stars because it just might be my preferences but I do not think I will be reading further tittles from this Author.

I loved being able to see Charley rediscover herself in the times of her divorce, finding herself outside of her previous marriage and current job situation, however, her and ethan just seemed to exist in two different realms, and I couldn’t imagine them having any form of long term commitment, as it would involve too much sacrifice on either side.

First, I loved Ellie Palmer's first book, Four Weekends and a Funeral was a solid four star pick and completely overtook my day because I was enraptured by it.

I picked up Anywhere With You. Yall, I hope this is the breakout romance of the summer. It is so stinking good!!! The banter is bantering. The friends to lovers romance is authentic, and the family drama is exquisite.

Charley is Type A, on partnership track at her law firm, and recently divorced at 29 after only a year of marriage. Her dad is an adventure documentary film maker. He and her mom constantly uprooted their family. Charley has always craved stability and sees the demise of her marriage as a personal failing. Charley's been estranged from her best friend Ethan since the wedding. Ethan, a free spirit and musician, reconnects with Charley after the divorce.

When Charley finds out her sister is going to elope with her on/off again boyfriend in the wake of her divorce, she enlists Charley for an intervention. Charley and Ethan embark on an upper Minnesotan adventure in Ethan's camper van. #vanlife When sparks fly between the two, Charley can't envision a life other than the her dreary patent law firm. How can Ethan provide Charley with the stability that her parents never could?

There is so much to love here. A gorgeous friends to lovers romance, adult sisterhood (I loved this storyline), and overcoming parental abandonment. More importantly, Charley has to ask the tough questions women need to wrestle with in this day and age. What, for you, does it mean to have it all? Are you reaching for goals that don't serve you?

Thank you Netgalley and G.P. Putnam's Sons for an advanced copy. Anywhere With You debuts August 5, 2025.

Charlie is a type-a, calculated, lawyer who craves consistency in her life. Except her life as of late is anything but. Her husband left her, and on the day her divorce is final, her easygoing, full of life sister (Laurel) drops another bombshell on her - she's marrying her childhood sweetheart, Petey. Charlie goes into a tailspin and knows that she needs to do anything possible to stop the marriage. After all, her marriage failed, and their parents' marriage was anything but great. That automatically means Laurel's is doomed too, right? She knows she can't do it alone though, so she enlists the help of Ethan, her childhood best friend.

Ethan and Charlie set off on a road trip where they spend a weekend rehashing their relationship. Although now, Charlie is second guessing everything. Is it because she's a recent divorcee or are things actually different with Ethan? Can she fit messy, unreliable and noncommittal Ethan into her cookie-cutter lifestyle?

At times I got frustrated by the miscommunication (or maybe the lack of chances Charlie would give Ethan), but the plot moved quickly enough to keep my interest.

Anywhere with You is a dual-timeline, best-friends to lovers novel that you MUST add to your to-read list. Palmer writes a story that is messy and chaotic, but equal parts heartfelt and endearing. With a message of "all we are is how well we're loved by the people we care about, and how well we love them back" this book is for any romance reader who believes in finding your people and being loved the way one deserves.