Review: People We Meet on Vacation

Author: Emily Henry

Started reading: July 1st 2022

Finished the book: July 4th 2022

Pages: 364

Genres: Romance, Fiction, Chicklit

Published: May 11th 2021

Source: Ebook

Goodreads score: 3.99

My score:

Synopsis

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.
Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.

Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.
Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

Review: The Rosie Effect (Don Tillman #2)

Author: Graeme Simsion
Started reading: June 10th 2019
Finished the book: June 16th 2019
Pages: 368
Published: July 21st 2015
Source: Kindle Copy
Goodreads score: 3.58
My score:

Synopsis
The Wife Project is complete, and Don and Rosie are happily married and living in New York. But they're about to face a new challenge because - surprise - Rosie is pregnant.

Don sets about learning the protocols of becoming a father, but his unusual research style gets him into trouble with the law. Fortunately his best friend Gene is on hand to offer advice: he's left Claudia and moved in with Don and Rosie.

As Don tries to schedule time for pregnancy research, getting Gene and Claudia to reconcile, servicing the industrial refrigeration unit that occupies half his apartment, helping Dave the Baseball Fan save his business, and staying on the right side of Lydia the social worker, he almost misses the biggest problem of all: he might lose Rosie when she needs him the most.

Review: The Rosie Project (Don Tillman #1)

Author: Graeme Simsion
Started reading: April 21st 2019
Finished the book: April 26nd 2019
Pages: 305
Published: October 1st 2013
Source: Kindle Copy
Goodreads score: 4.02
My score:

Synopsis
Don Tillman is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet.But he has designed the Wife Project, using a sixteen-page questionnaire to help him find the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker, or a late-arriver.
Rosie Jarman is all these things. She is also fiery and intelligent and beautiful. And on a quest of her own to find her biological father - a search that Don, a professor of genetics, might just be able to help her with.

The Wife Project teaches Don some unexpected things. Why earlobe length is an inadequate predictor of sexual attraction. Why quick-dry clothes aren't appropriate attire in New York. Why he's never been on a second date. And why, despite your best scientific efforts, you don't find love: love finds you.

Review: How to Find Love in a Bookshop

Author: Veronica Henry

Started reading: March 25th 2017

Finished the book: April 2nd 2017

Pages: 336

Genres: Romance, Chicklit

Published: June 16th 2016

Source: Bought a Kindle Ebook

Goodreads score: 4.0

My score:

Synopsis:

Everyone has a story... but will they get the happy ending they deserve?

Emilia has just returned to her idyllic Cotswold hometown to rescue the family business. Nightingale Books is a dream come true for book-lovers, but the best stories aren't just within the pages of the books she sells - Emilia's customers have their own tales to tell.

There's the lady of the manor who is hiding a secret close to her heart; the single dad looking for books to share with his son but who isn't quite what he seems; and the desperately shy chef trying to find the courage to talk to her crush... As for Emilia's story, can she keep the promise she made to her father and save Nightingale Books?

My thoughts

I truly fell in love with the book once I got to know all the characters and their stories. The book really gripped me after 70% and that's when I started to rush through. I started caring for the characters and their lives and this made me give the book 5 apples.

Pros

• Feel good book: I cannot describe this book as anything but a feel-good-book. Don't read too fast; This book also has gripping emotions and made me cry a little, but overall it really is a feel-good-book. I closed this book (or my Kindle, lol) with a good feeling. With a *sigh*.. That sigh when you just finished a great book.
• Life lessons: This book made me realize there can be a lot of things wrong with your life. There can be a lot of things that you want to change. This book made me realize that you have to make the change for yourself. You have to make the hard choices if you want that change for yourself. I like books with a life lesson!
• I felt involved: At some point (somewhere around 70%) I felt very involved with the characters. I cared for them and for their lives and I felt their joy and their sadness. This is the strongest part about the book. The characters were alive for me. And they have 1 thing in common: They all LOVE books!
• Books and music: Two magical ingredients for a great book. What do you want more?

Cons

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Overall

A great book about books with some ingredients that you need to love a book. Feelings, great characters and some life advice. I fell in love with this book, mostly in the second part. The book ended amazing and I'm so glad I picked this up! It gives you this feeling:

Other opinions about this book

"Romantic and utterly heartwarming"

- Jenny Colgan

Memorable quotes from this book

"I have lots of favourites. That's the trouble with books. You can never choose your favorite. It changes depending on your mood."

"So that was why people read. Because books explained things: how you thought, and how you behaved, and made you realise you were not alone in doing what you did or feeling what you felt."

"Books are more precious than jewels. She truly believed this. What did a diamond bring you? A momentary flash of brilliance. A diamond scintillated for a second; a book could scintillate forever."

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