Monday, August 21, 2023

Book Lovers, by Emily Henry

377 pages, Hardcover


 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.

Description from Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58690308-book-lovers

Aurel'sTake: 

As someone who reads a genre that contains a lot of, (sometimes annoyingly,) repetative tropes, I enjoyed this read's joking spirit in reference to the aforementioned tropes. There were a few times some of the jokes and quips made me laugh loud enough my husband was subjected to me telling him what had me giggling. My favorite of the two Emily Henry books I've read so far this month. 

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