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May 23

Book Lovers - Emily Henry

my review : ✮✮✮✮✮

Just skip my review and buy it, trust me.

This story is perfection. It’s so much more than a rom-com, not a hint of tired tropes or cheesy moments…. just whip-smart dialogue, brilliant characters, and butterfly inducing banter.

The book follows Nora, a hard working fabulous New Yorker. Sure, every boyfriend has dumped her for some Hallmark movie type girl (ie: running off with the daughter of a Christmas Tree Farmer, the local baker, you get the gist) but her life is pretty fabulous. When her sweet little sister begs her to take a break from work and head to the idyllic small town of Sunshine Falls, NC Nora dutifully heads there for a reprieve from work and (if her sister had any say in it) to maybe find her own small town love story. Instead, upon arrival she keeps running into Charlie Lanstra… a dark brooding editor from back in the city, basically the anti-small town love interest she’s after… you can see where this is going, right?

I wanted to curl up into the pages of this book and live there.

I need Emily Henry to write a War and Peace length tome so I’m never without her writing. She is the queen of the romcom. It says it on the jacket & I couldn’t agree more… she’s our generation’s answer to Nora Ephron…. although I don’t think I want to see any of Emily’s books on the big screen, I much prefer reading her stories on paper 📖 .

Best paired with a dry very dirty gin martini (my drink of choice AND the heroine’s go to… so much to love about that woman) garnished of course with creamy blue cheese olives 🍸.

you’ll love this book if you love:

Enemies to lovers
A getaway romance

my favorite quote:

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