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Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Genre : Contemporary Romance
Publisher : Berkley Romance
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.
I read Book Lovers last month and I think this topped both Beach Read and PWMOV for me!❣️ And it has been one of my favorites from this year! I'm actually listening to the audiobook right now and I've been enjoying this the second time around as well.
I don't where to start and how to list all the things that I loved about this book? Nora and Charlie were so amazing and I don't really think I've ever felt so close to a character as I did with Nora. She's so relatable. And though Nora and Charlie had a bit of hate/love dynamic it wasn't really enemies to lovers for me. I think it's more of a similarities-attract? I talk a lot about the opposites attract trope but I swear the similarities-attract trope is my favorite underrated one(someone make a Trope Tuesday post for this!)
It doesn't help that Nora is an amazing literary agent and Charlie is an editor(in an alternate universe these are my ideal jobs 😄). Could this get better? Well, yes. It has witty banter, amazing chemistry and sisterhood that I'm envious of.
In the beginning, it feels a bit tropey and rom-com-ish as Nora describes herself as the career-oriented city girlfriend who gets dumped when the guy goes to a small town and finds a new life. She's the Shark in the professional field(imo there's nothing wrong with that, it's my life goal to be a 🦈. But I swear I can't help it as the Baby Shark song sounds in my head whenever I see the word)
She finally makes time to go on a trip with her sister Libby to Sunshine Falls, a small town that was the setting for one of the best-selling books that Nora's author had written and to her surprise she runs into Charlie, who had rejected the manuscript of this book. Libby has a checklist of things that she wants Nora to do and Nora also thinks that this is the chance for her to bridge the distance between them that has increased over the years. She keeps running into Charlie and the sexual tension between them is off the charts.
Nora and Libby's expectations might not be met in this small town which is quite different from what they imagined, but perhaps they could discover something new?
"Stephens," he says, tone dry once more, "if you're the villain in someone else's love story, then I'm the devil."
Haha, I'd love to read a fanfic with Nora as the evil queen and Charlie as a dark mage 😂(just my imagination running wild).
Just go read this if you haven't already!
You can also find my review on bookstagram here
Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of
People We Meet on Vacation and Beach Read, as well as several
young adult novels. She lives and writes in Cincinnati and the
part of Kentucky just beneath it.
Her books have been featured in Buzzfeed, Oprah Magazine,
Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, The Skimm, Shondaland,
and more.
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