BOOK LOVERS BY EMILY HENRY

Book Lovers is a well written romcom and the start to my Emily Henry obsession! I devoured this one and am anxiously awaiting the minute I can start another one from her. 

Rating: ★★★★
​Release Date: May 3, 2022
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Series: None. 
Pages: 398 pages
Format: Paperback. Source: ​Purchased. 

One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming...

Nora Stephens' life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many 

​times and it’s never been cute.

If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

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I can see why everyone has loved Book Lovers so much! This is a truly well written novel filled with meaning and it was hard not to keep reading even when I had to stop. Now even though it DID start off a little slow for me once it picked up it truly took off. That’s probably more of a “me” thing rather than the book though. I felt a slump coming on but once I got halfway through this one that feeling of a reading slump completely disappeared. That’s the first time this has happened to me. This book PREVENTED a slump 😂

Anyway, I really loved this one. It was like a romance trope within a romance trope and I was super excited to see how original the author made this one. She’s write, every trope that exists has been written but if you sprinkle a little magic between the pages it doesn’t matter that you’ve read the trope before- there can always be a unique story within the pages like this one.

The characters? Excellent. I loved how the workaholics who are normally considered the villains to be the MCs here. I even loved the enemies/nemesis vibes even though I wouldn’t quite consider them either one of these. I also loved how despite their hesitations and knowing how the story “should” end for them, it didn’t end that way.

Now I need to go ahead and read Emily’s other two books which have been sitting on my shelves since they released! I can’t wait. And I definitely recommend this one.

𝗣𝗘𝗥𝗙𝗘𝗖𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗙𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗢𝗙:
• Romantic Comedies (especially those that are completely original)
• Small Town Settings
• The fish out of water trope

𝗠𝗬 𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚: ⭐⭐⭐⭐