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Emily Henry (Author), Julia Whelan (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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Two friends. Ten summer trips. Their last chance to fall in love.

Twelve summers ago: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other and are pretty confident they'll never speak again.

Eleven summers ago: they're forced to share a ride home from college, and by the end of it, a friendship is formed. And a pact: every year, one vacation together.

Ten summers ago: Alex discovers his fear of flying on the way to Vancouver. Poppy holds his hand the whole way.

Seven summers ago: they get far too drunk and narrowly avoid getting matching tattoos in New Orleans.

Two summers ago: it all goes wrong.

This summer: Poppy asks Alex to join her on one last trip. A trip that will determine the rest of their lives.

You and Me on Vacation is a love story for fans of When Harry Met Sally and One Day. Get ready to travel the world, snort with laughter and - most of all - lose your heart to Poppy and Alex.

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10 hours and 45 minutes
Author

Emily Henry
Narrator

Julia Whelan
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11 May 2021
Language

English
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Penguin Audio
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B08TRL3LDC
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	10 hours and 45 minutes
Author	Emily Henry
Narrator	Julia Whelan
Audible.com.au Release Date	11 May 2021
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B08TRL3LDC
Best Sellers Rank	1,153 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) 10 in Friendship Fiction 18 in Coming of Age Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) 22 in Romantic Comedy (Audible Books & Originals)

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john woodlands

WHY HAS THIS BEEN SO POPULAR

Reviewed in Australia on 25 July 2021

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Purchased this on the basis of the reviews and comments. Bad decision. I found it not funny nor romantic at all. It might be a cultural thing, I don't know, but I do know what I like and what I consider poor reading. Same with a lot of American movies these days, they appear to have run out of ideas and are borrowing ideas from other countries such as Asia and Europe. I struggled to get about one third of the way through this book in the hope it would improve... It didn't, at least for me. Maybe my standards for romantic comedies are set to high these days. The last romantic comedy I really enjoyed from my Kindle was 'Honeymoon for One' by another author. For me this book does not even rate one star really.

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Louise

Magical

Reviewed in Australia on 11 May 2021

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Poppy and Alex’s story made me laugh out loud and cry gross tears. I want to shove it at all my friends and scream “THIS IS IT! READ IT!”
Emily Henry writes like my brain speaks - I cannot express how I feel about her work other than to say it’s wonderful because I am full of wonder and already waiting for the next one.

If anyone needs me I’ll probably just be bashing my head against a wall so I can forget everything about this book and read it for the first time again.

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LibraryGirl

Romance of the year!

Reviewed in Australia on 24 May 2021

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Beautifully written with such tension and emotion you’ll find your heart beating faster and you’re holding you breath! This is the one you’ve been waiting for. Emily Henry just keeps getting better!

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Highly recommend!

Reviewed in Australia on 16 October 2021

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Emily Henry- nothing to add.
Love her style of writing. Although The Beach Read is still my favourite.
Immensely enjoyable

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Interesting book but not amazing

Reviewed in Australia on 4 June 2021

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This book was good but it found it hard to root for the characters I didn’t feel the chemistry or really connected with them or the story. Think this is a good book to pick up if you’re bored but definitely a book you forget about as soon as you read it

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Love love love a wholesome romance

Reviewed in Australia on 17 July 2021

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Poppy and Alex were such loveable characters right from the start, I read this book in one day. I could not put it down! I'd recommend to any one who loves a full on romance with believable characters

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Kylie

Amazing Story 🥰 A must read

Reviewed in Australia on 13 June 2021

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Wow what a great book!!! I couldn't put the book down. 🥰

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Bookishly Nomes

Amazing 5 stars!

Reviewed in Australia on 11 May 2021

People We Meet on Vacation has been on my list of highly anticipated reads for a while now and after finally getting my hands on a copy, I couldn’t recommend this book more highly! It was incredible and I hope everyone enjoys it as much as I did.

Although, I do own Beach Read, I haven’t read it yet and so People We Meet on Vacation is actually the first book by Emily Henry I’ve read. It certainly won’t be my last though and I’m dying to pick up Beach Read after this! Henry’s writing style is beautiful, succinct and so darn easy to get lost in. So much so, that she managed to make me absolutely love a trope I don’t usually pick up very often: friends to lovers.

Alex and Poppy meet in college and don’t immediately click. They are very much opposites in every way, but through special circumstances, they build an unlikely friendship that spans years, relationships and many summer vacations in various destinations. The story is told from Poppy’s POV but provides great insight into how the summer vacations and their friendship progressed through the years.

As a character, I found Poppy to be incredibly relatable. She knows who she is but at the same time is equally lost and confused about what she truly wants in life. Because of this, she’s always chasing a feeling or dreaming of an escape. She’s often views by others as flighty and wild. It takes a lot of time and self-reflection to understand what she’s truly chasing is a person who loves and accepts her as she is.

On the flip side, Alex is known for being mature, overly serious and responsible; sometimes to the point of being mistaken for boring. I actually really liked Alex a lot. He’s dependable, reliable and grounded. In relation to my other favourite book boyfriends, I would put him on the same level as Joshua Templeman (The Hating Game), Jonah Riggs (The Simple Wild) and Reid Sutherland (Love Lettering). So basically, I have a new favourite book boyfriend in my list!

I won’t give too much more away about this book but will say it was absolutely magical. I absolutely adored this and want everyone to read it and love it as much as I did!

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Cundykj

It speaks to me

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 June 2021

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What a beautiful way to waste a day. Sat in the sunshine. No place to go. No people to see. And a practically perfect book to read.

The slow burn is absolutely one of my favourite types of book. I just love knowing the characters are madly in love with each other before they do. I feel like I’m in on the secret.

I loved, loved, loved Poppy and Alex. I love their quirky insider jokes, the little phrases they repeat to each other than nobody else gets but make them fall about laughing. I just love those little things. I’m stealing “too many wine” as my new catchphrase. I want to steal Alex and Poppy too and have them as my best friends so we can go on holiday together and laugh all day and have our own insider phrases.

Their funny little holiday phrases reminded me so much of Cundy Conroy holidays of the past and the silly phrases that you had to have been there for. I think “stop with that tomfoolery” followed by “down with that horseplay” might be my absolute favourite phrases ever uttered. Aren’t holidays ace?

I want quirky Poppy clothing advice and kind, caring Alex mopping my forehead when I’m ill. I just love the pair of them so hard.

This is an absolutely lovely, lovely story of two friends falling in love with each other without realising. Two friends having the best of times together. Two friends making memories. Two friends realising that a compromise isn’t always a compromise if it means that you found your home.

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little bookworm

Average summer rom-com

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 July 2021

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You and Me on Vacation tells the story of Poppy and Alex over the course of twelve years, with chapters alternating between the present day and back through the years from when they first met, focusing in particular on all their summer vacations together. Though they don't initially hit it off to a great start, Poppy and Alex are soon the best of friends, despite how different they are, their summer trips together legendary. That is until 2 years ago, when something happened and they haven't really spoken since. Now Poppy is desperate to get their friendship back on track by taking another vacation together.

My first book from Emily Henry, this made for an easy summer read. I tend to like the 'best friends to lovers' trope, with all the complications it can bring and exploring that idea of whether a relationship is just platonic or something more. That being said, I don't think this story added anything new to this trope, and I've seen it done much better, for instance One Day, which had so much more of an emotional connect.

You and Me on Vacation is very much a slow-burn romance. I did generally like the central characters, who both came across warmly, if perhaps a little stereotyped. Alex is sweet and shy, Poppy loud and fun, both rather quirky in their different ways. They probably shouldn't work together, yet they do, bringing out the best in each other.

I quite liked the idea of Poppy as this travel writer, initially blogger and so-called social media-influencer as it just seemed very much on trend, and not something I've come across before in a book. Her career was explored quite a lot in the book, and I was particularly fascinated by that concept of someone having these ambitious goals driving them, but then when they achieve them they are left feeling somewhat empty. I did think that perhaps the social-media side of things could have been explored a bit more though, in terms of the drawbacks of being such a profile figure.

Whilst I did like the back and forth of the timeline, I have to say overall I thought the book was too dragged out. We go on endless vacations with Poppy and Alex, and whilst there were some fun anecdotes and obviously relationship building between the two, it did get somewhat repetitive, with not much actually happening for a lot of the book other than following the pair on holiday after holiday.

In the current time-line there is some awkwardness between them as they try to rebuild their friendship, and we are left wondering as to what went wrong two years ago, not finding out till pretty late in the book. Given how much this was teased, I have to say I was disappointed by the eventual reveal, as it was just very anticlimactic. I get that a lot of these types of stories rely on the miscommunication trope, but even so it is usually better done than this.

I also think I might have liked the book better if it was told from both Poppy and Alex's point of views, rather than just Poppy's, as it might have varied the tone a bit. Whilst I did like Poppy, for me she was the more annoying out of the pair, and she could grate on my nerves somewhat at times with how she acted or things she did e.g. why lie to Alex in the first place about their holiday being funded by R&R, for me there was just no need. Also I didn't quite get why she always felt like such an outsider, and felt this was an aspect that the writer was more just trying to shoe-horn in so as to psycho-analyse some of her behaviour at the end, rather than something that felt genuine.

Overall this was a very average read for me, lacking that special spark, such that it never had me excited to return to its pages.

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Read and Reviewed

A drawn-out and uninspiring contemporary rom-com that lacked a definite spark.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 June 2021

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Contemporary romance isn’t my usual choice of reading matter but after the popularity of Emily Henry’s Beach Read I was tempted by the idea of some witty escapism in this friends to lovers romance. What I didn’t anticipate was how much of a struggle I would find it to the point where it quickly became monotonous and for me both the characterisation of the two romantic interests and the structure of the novel proved a disappointment. Poppy Wright is a travel writer now living in New York and met Alex Nilsen twelve years ago in orientation week at the University of Chicago. Poles apart and having little common ground aside from hailing from neighbouring towns in Ohio they didn’t expect to see each other again. However when Poppy cadges a ride home with Alex the very next summer it is the start of a friendship that blossoms into an annual summer holiday commitment, despite both having separate lives and their own romantic entanglements. But two years ago in Croatia things went wrong and Poppy and high school teacher, Alex, have not spoken properly since. Although Poppy has the career she dreamed of and an enviable lifestyle she is disaffected with her lot and decides that salvaging her friendship with Alex, and revealing her feelings for him, on a final make or break summer vacation is too important an opportunity to pass up.

What follows is an extraordinarily drawn-out story that moves back and forth between this summer and flashbacks through ten previous summers, illustrating the ups and downs of Poppy and Alex’s relationship and following their current tightly budgeted trip to Palm Springs My enthusiasm for the story of this summer was limited and so wading through all of the previous years exploits quickly became tiresome. It also takes well over half the book before Henry even tackles the events of two summers ago which neither live up the billing or I doubt will surprise many readers. The entire novel is presented from the perspective of Poppy who I found a little grating and superficial and whilst I found Alex bland and frankly pretty dull I did feel that hearing his perspective would have added another dimension to the novel. Not only did I feel that the chemistry between the pair was negligible but aside from occasional moments of witty banter they didn’t even seem on the same wavelength. Personally I didn’t find the novel entertaining and was bemused that the pair seemed unable to talk to each other openly and there had been ten years of miscommunication. Although the outcome of the novel was unashamedly predictable from the off, my disappointment was compounded by a denouement that was over in the blink of an eye and felt decidedly anticlimactic.

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Deborah Durbin

Ow my heart.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 July 2021

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I apologise to any future possible man who I will absolutely be holding to the standards of the men Emily Henry writes.
Ow my heart.
That’s all.
This book make it grow three sizes ‘grinch style.’
I read Emily Henry’s other book beach read in one sitting, uncomfortably in the heat to add to the beachy vibe, and then immediately had to buy this one because her writing ‘speaks to me.’
And thus came another entire night in the sudden British heat wave spent reading ‘you and me on vacation’ all in one go.
The characters are so wonderfully fleshed out, the dynamics are so beautifully banterful but the whole book has this wonderful hit of heartbreaking realism of pain that hits you where you need it.
The way she writes family dynamics and the relationship struggles within those is incredible and the characters all have these layers that build up to a surface character but when you peel it back with each chapter you see it all makes sense.
Poppy is presented at first as a bold extrovert and Alex quite the opposite but then you learn about their vastly different experiences growing up and you see why and how they are the people they are.
Thought I would try dipping my toes into the contemporary romance genre with ‘beach read’ and got absolutely dragged in and drowned in the best way possible with both ‘beach read’ and ‘you and me on vacation.’
Do yourself a favour and pick up this book, the sheer amount of embarrassing audible giggles you’ll have alone I’m your room at 3am from the dynamics of Poppy and Alex are worth it alone.

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Gemma - Read A Book Gem

Missing the spark of Beach Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 28 July 2021

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As much as I enjoy the friends to lovers trope in stories, it can be a difficult one to get right. For me, there has to be a believable reason why the two friends may not have dated or realised their feelings for each other before they become lovers. There also has to be a chemistry between the two friends that makes the transition from friends to lovers feel right.

It was the complete lack of chemistry between Poppy and Alex that spoiled my enjoyment of this book. The differences in their personalities and the constant awkwardness between them made it very hard to believe that they were the close friends we are told they are. The forced banter forms the basis of every conversation they have so there was no real depth or meaning.

After really enjoying Beach Read last summer I was looking forward to the next book from Emily Henry but this one is really missing the spark.

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