People We Meet on Vacation

You should know that I'm not a person that generally writes in my books, so when I start highlighting and underlining with abandon, I feel like that means something? Like, maybe that a thought about long-term love was really resonating with me, or that I want to remember little zingers about millennial ennui. A pleasant surprise, since I didn't love Beach Read; but this is why I should stop writing authors off based on one book, because I really, really liked this one. I don't even love traveling, even in non-Covid times, but I like the IDEA of traveling, of all the little adventures you can find along the way. I appreciated that Henry commented in the notes at the end about hoping this book could be a glimmer of that amongst the pandemic awfulness - I don't need all my escapist fiction to harp on it or anything, but the fact that this lovely book about loving the feel of being somewhere new, with new people, was published at a time where no one was going anywhere or meeting anyone ... it just couldn't go unmentioned.

I loved the way Alex thought, and his and Poppy's friendship, and that any misunderstandings eventually became clear. I don't know that I've ever read a friends-to-lovers romance before this one, but it won't be my last.

4.5 stars rounded up. (I'm being petty and knocking off a half star because it took me a few days to read this and I couldn't always remember what year the various trips were supposed to be happening in.)

TW: mentions of a woman dying from complications due to childbirth (in the past)