Great beach read! Fast paced, humorous, and enjoyable. Somewhat predictable, as most rom-coms are, but fun nonetheless. Would recommend to fans of Ali Hazelwood and Tessa Bailey.

My favourite book of Emily Henry so far!
It's like a love letter to books 💕
I enjoyed the small-town setting during a summer vacation, and it reminded me of Stars Hollow.
The dynamics between Nora and Charlie was an instant like for me, and I loved seeing their relationship growing.
Emily Henry's books never focus on the love aspect too much, but they take time to develop a lot of topics, like grief or sibling relationship.
Highly recommend it!

I liked it. I appreciated that it was not an easy love to figure out since she wanted to live in the city and she didn't just say oh I'll live in the burbs with you. I didn't see the moving part with her sister coming so that was a good turn. I still prefer Beach Read as her best, but this one was good. I liked the publishing parts as well.

Well, I loved this. Probably the best Emily Henry rom-com to date, and this is saying a lot as a person who dislikes the publishing industry and tried to stay away from Book Lovers because of its themes.

Five stars. Love.

Easily my favorite Emily Henry read. Just absolutely delightful characters, dialogue, setting and pace. There's a reason this one has skyrocketed and been beloved my hundreds of thousands of readers.

I absolutely loved this book! I was laughing through the whole thing, and I couldn't put it down. Read it in one night (stayed up until about 4 even though I had a HUGE event at work the next morning. Worth it!). I loved that the characters grew while still being true to themselves. It was fabulous!

Although Nora and Charlie’s romance is unique, sweet, and slow-burny, with sooo much witty banter, my favorite relationship in this story was that of Nora and her younger sister Libby. The two experienced a major tragedy when they were a young adult and a teenager, and Nora has been trying to take care of Libby ever since (even though Libby is married and has two daughters with another on the way). This puts a strain on their relationship, especially when Nora seemingly puts her job before everything else. This story is all about how the two sisters come back together, share their secrets with each other, and discover an even tighter bond than the one they had when they were younger.
If you want to grin, cry a little, laugh out loud, and be amazed by Ms. Henry’s cultural references (especially of the book variety), I highly recommend you read Book Lovers!

Is it possible to give a book 6 stars? When i tell you this book had me laughing out loud and absolutely sobbing I MEAN IT! I’m so thankful to have been given the opportunity to check out this ARC and can’t wait to get my hands on every physical copy version of this book when it gets released next year.
I found myself, in more ways than one, relating to the main character and the story felt so genuine. The overly sappy tropes were minimal and both the mc and love interest were career driven independent individuals that i respected so much.
This story had me doubling over laughing and even sobbing my eyes out towards the end. The slow burn was amazing. I CANNOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK ENOUGH!

Thank you to netgalley and the publisher for giving me free access to the advanced copy of this book to read.

Loved this book! I responded so much to Nora and her feelings of control, although it went a little over the top at the end, but I still understood her. Charlie was great, complicated and realistic and I LOVED them together! Best Emily Henry read yet!

THIS BOOK WAS AMAZING!! So hard to put down. I love, love, love Nora and Charlies' story. Looking forward to reading more by Emily Henry.

How fitting that I was reading it during National Library Week when we embrace book lovers! While I didn't enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed Emily Henry's other books I have read, it was still an interesting read and held my attention. It definitely made me want to visit Sunshine Falls to see if it lives up to the book.

I like that this book dove deeper into the characters and things they were dealing with (ex: grief over losing mother; grappling with living their lives for them and not for others) and wasn't just your typical mushy gushy romance novel. Although some times I thought things were a little over-the-top, the characters felt real to me and like they were realistic.

Looking forward to Emily Henry's next book.

Emily Henry has really found her niche. This book is fun and sexy while tackling difficult family dynamics, trauma and quite a bit of angst. It is much like Beach Read in that regard but it doesn't feel like it is just telling that story again. I look forward to the next one!

This was so good! I've read Emily Henry's other books and she just keeps getting better. This story was fantastic and I just loved everything about it. The chemistry between Nora and Charlie is just so great. I would highly recommend this story.

I really wanted to love this book. After reading Emily Henry’s two other books, Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation, I expected a win. I found the relationship between the two sisters, Nora and Libby, to be contrived. Libby talks Nora into a break from her city life and they find themselves in the small town of Sunshine Falls, I had to laugh! Nora’s book editor nemesis, Charlie, shows up in the same small town. He has a backstory there and, in the end, I found the story to be neatly tied up.
I’d recommend this book to anyone who wants a light, summer read. It was not as enjoyable to me as her past books; however it is solid summer entertainment.

Thank you to Net Galley and the publisher for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. This is another enjoyable read from Emily Henry about Nora, a literary agent, who is absorbed by her work. She takes a trip with her sister Libby and decides she will have an adventure but instead bumps into Charlie a bookish editor from back home. Both Nora and Charlie have own their personal stories down to a T but maybe they can write a new one together?

In this novel brilliantly plotted like a Hallmark holiday movie (without the Christmas), protagonist Nora, a shark-like NYC literary agent, has lost not one but four boyfriends to the trope of "went out of town on business, met a local girl, saved her family's business instead of destroyed it, had a complete change of morals and heart and breaks up with her." The most recent dumping coincides with a late lunch meeting with notoriously grumpy editor Charlie, to invite him to edit author Dusty's latest manuscript. He passes. Their verbal sparring is foreplay, but neither knows it yet.

Fast forward two years, and Libby, Nora's sister, pregnant with her third child, wants a babymoon with her big sister and drags Nora off the not-so-charming Sunshine Farms for a vacation, complete with an irresistible checklist that includes hiking, horse-petting, makeovers, baking and camping--elements of a grownup, multiple- week- long slumber party. Special items for Nora include dates with not one, but two, hot local men.

One of whom turns out to be a certain book editor, born and raised in Sunshine Falls, running his mom's bookstore while his dad recovers from a second stroke... Nora can't be completely "off" on her vacation, because her best-selling and sensitive author is working on a new novel, featuring a rather bloodthirsty and seemingly irredeemable Cruella DeVil of a film agent whose characterization is hitting a little too close to home for Nora's taste. When Dusty's agent goes into labor prematurely, Charlie takes over the book, forcing he and Nora to work together. Meanwhile, Libby is hatching a plot to save the ailing bookshop.

This is a gem of a book from the pacing, the plot, the characters. The voice is pitch perfect. The baggage Nora and Libby need to work through is real and not over the top: their single actress/waitress mom who adored New York and made being broke fun; their dad who abandoned them; Libby's focus on family and Nora's on career; their sweet and loving but high stakes sibling relationship which Nora perceives as forcing her into a rescuer role. The subplot of a mini-mystery about what's going on between Libby and her husband Brendan is a nice little side story.

The banter between Nora and Charlie and Nora and her sister is fun, snarky and just wonderfully written. The attraction between Nora and Charlie is real, palpable and a bit gut wrenching. Motifs are just so beautifully carried through, from Nora and Charlie's crashing into one another to the analogy of their relationship being like a great book that leaves you with a lingering heartache. NYC and Sunshine Falls are both lovingly rendered in their exquisite gory, run-down, lush and gorgeous details.

I have a stack of ARCS to read, but right now, I'm going to finish the paperback copy of People We Meet on Vacation, because I loved Beach Read, loved Book Lovers, and can't get enough of Emily Henry right now.

I received an advance reader's review copy of #BookLovers from #NetGalley.

Bummed that I DNF this one. This is the 3rd book agent themed book I've tried recently...and the 3rd I haven't been able to get through. I am a book lover, a book reader, a library worker, and I guess I need to realize that books about the publishing side of things just aren't my forte...thanks for the opportunity to read and review this book. I will try again another time.

OMG THIS BOOK WAS SO AMAZING! I laughed, I cried, I saw myself in Nora. This was a wonderfully capturing book and I can't wait to read more Emily Henry!

If I could rate this 6 stars I would. This book was utterly phenomenal and had so much exploration of characters. I loved how Henry combined big city with small town romance and the dynamic between the two main characters. a must read