I haven't had much luck with Emily Henry, but this book I really loved! Loved the indpendent and strong woman, small town and related family and hi-jinks.

This is one of my favorite books ever. I love the snarky chemistry between Charlie and Nora, I love the witty banter between Nora and Libby, and I love the descriptions of NYC and Sunshine Falls. I've listened to it several times and Julia Whelan just brings these characters to life and I can't imagine a more perfect pairing of her vocal skills and Emily Henry's writing. This is a must read!!!

This book was so so so good. It was so cute. I really enjoyed it. I loved the characters and I loved the dynamic between them. I really enjoyed the love story that was going on as well. I really like Emily Henry's writing. its easy to read and easy to fall in love with the story.

This was so good and I highly recommend it.

Hate to love is my favorite trope and Emily did not disappoint as always. She quickly became a favorite romance writer. This book is cute, it’s funny..it’s just an all around good time. The sister’s relationship was definitely a fave.

I thought this was absolutely delightful. I loved how the book explored in the middle in particular, by using the idea of the whole trope, that we try to fit people into neat little packages too, similar to how people say x genre is all the same, but there’s always more going on.

I absolutely fell in love with these characters! This book had home town hallmark vibes, big city settings, love, and was more than just a romance story. Meeting in New York, Nora and Charlie are in both in the book industry where competiveness is the rule. Both being the hard hitters and known as the hard-asses of their areas, they inevitably collide. Unexpectantly meeting again in a small town where a the book they first fought over was set, they are both working on other family realtionships and have no time to start a romance.
Twists and turns, feelings and faux pauxs make this one of the most relatable books I've read in a while. I love the hard edges that both Nora and Charlie have as well as the soft centers their passion for each other begins to show. Emiy Henry is a master at making you feel like you are a part of every realationship that is being formed or recreated. Don't miss this one.

I think Emily Henry is just not for me. I DNFed this book after 100 pages. Something about her writing style just doesn't work in my brain. Her witty banter often doesn't make sense to me, and the characters are just not anyone I seem to ever care about. I also really don't love enemies to lovers tropes so maybe this is on me for reading this one. This book started off SO well and I was really into it, but after about 20 pages things just went downhill. Every ten pages or so I would get back into the story for a few pages and then it would lose me again. I don't know. I just don't get it and didn't see any reason to keep reading. I may try one more of her books because people are obsessed, but so far the two I've read have just not been for me.

Thank you to Berkley Romance and NetGalley for access to this advanced copy in exchange for my honest opinion.

It was the book of 2022, there is a reason. This was a book for book lovers, writers, and those in publishing around. I would say this is more of a women's fiction novel highlighting sister relationships than the romantic relationship. I was looking for a bit more with the romance aspect of this book.

I haven't read much romance but first I grabbed it on NetGalley based solely on the title and cover (I'm a sucker for book themed books!) and then multiple people recommended this one to me so I finally checked it out. And it was a fun read, I just found it a bit too predictable. Plus, I just didn't get enough buy in to them being enemies in the beginning so there wasn't as much tension as I was expecting. But for an easy, escapist, beach-type read this definitely fit the bill! (And I did appreciate the meta book theme ;-) )

Emily Henry could write a grocery list and I would read it. I absolutely adore her novels. I think Book Lovers is my favorite novel from Emily Henry. I just loved everything about this book.

Book Lovers by Emily Henry was great! She covered all the things that make a good book outstanding - it was real, romantic, funny, sisterly, and bookish.

This is a book that was so hyped-up, I was pleased that it was actually good. I really liked Beach Read, I didn't like People We Meet on Vacation, and I haven't really read much of her before she exploded into popularity.

I enjoyed this novel, though, and it was a fun fast read that is based on my tropes. This book is sure to be popular with the BookTok fanbase and will easily find it's audience of middle class, white, college-educated women.

My first EmHen and I get the hype. She knows how to play up the enemies-to-lovers situation, tease out the tension, and go for The Jugular when the time is ripe. Don't get me wrong, the plot is clichéd as hell, like every Hallmark holiday romcoms about a big city girl in a small town, but there is a reason why they are so popular... coupled with Nora and Charlie's top-shelf quality banter, and the palpable sexual chemistry between them, bam, you've got a hit. Looking forward to EmHen's new book in 2023, Happy Place!

Just absolute perfection. Obsessed with the characters, the banter, the setting, the humor, and ALL of the quotes. This also touched on the grief after losing a parent, which was heart wrenchingly beautiful to read. Will now proceed to read everything else this author has written.

“Just because not everyone gets you doesn’t mean you’re wrong. You’re someone people can count on. Really count on. And that doesn’t make you cold or boring.”

The way I feel so seen after reading this book. This is why I love to read. I really cannot say enough good things about this book and the way it made me feel. Emily Henry never fails to impress me with the way she can craft such simple, yet perfect stories. They always feel so real and relatable without becoming mundane or boring. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, her books are the absolute best beach reads. She’s somehow able to strike this perfect balance to keep you interested without anything too overly stressful or sad happening to pull you out of your happy vacation mood.

Plot:

Nora is a publishing agent living in New York. Everyone sees her as an ice queen because she’s cut throat about her job and prioritizes her clients over her personal life, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Her sister is pregnant with her third child, and begs Nora to take a break from work and go with her on a babymoon of sorts to a small town in North Carolina she’s been wanting to visit from one of her favorite books. After some convincing Nora agrees, but immediately regrets it when she runs into her surely coworker Charlie upon arrival. It’s a small town so there’s really no avoiding each other.. and after a few chance encounters and learning a bit more about each other maybe they don’t actually want to.

Final thoughts:

This book was just so perfect in so many ways. I truly felt like Emily was writing certain parts directly for me with how personally I related to them. She has been an auto buy author for me and someone who’s books I recommend to everyone ever since picking up Beach Read, and this book only continues to prove that. I highly, highly, highly recommend this book to anyone looking for a sweet and heart felt read that will really leave an impact. I finished it about a week ago and I still can’t stop thinking about it. Seriously, go read this you will not regret it!

This book was everything I want in a romance. Enemies-to-lovers, insanely witty banter, and spicy scenes. I could go on and on about this banter between Nora and Charlie. It is absolutely perfect. If all of this wasn't perfect enough, the end of Book Lovers had me crying due to it sentimentality. Five stars all around and have recommended it to almost everyone I know.

My favorite book of 2022, by far. Emily Henry does it again with an incredible small town, enemies-to-lovers romance. I would read this over and over again. Charlie Lastra is my dream man.

What a sweet book! This was my introduction to Emily Henry and I thoroughly enjoyed the story.
The characters were quirky and who can resist such sisterly and familial devotion? Looking forward to future books and reading past works by her.

If Emily Henry wasn’t on my favourite-authors-list yet, Book Lovers placed her there on the top.
I loved this book so much and I think this is her best work yet.
Her previous novels, Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation I adored, but this one raised the bar and now I now my expectations for Henry’s future books will be so high that I kind of feel little sorry for her.

The story follows Nora who says herself that she is the bitch guys leave to have their happily ever after with a small town girl.
Nora is a shark when it comes to business, loves her career and life in the city, but when her younger sister asks her to visit a small town called Sunshine Falls together, she couldn’t say no, although she knows small town romance isn’t a book of her life.

I loved Nora as a narrator.
The novel is written in first person and following Nora’s perspective was everything.
All the Hallmark references and making fun of cliches was amazing. I laughed so many times while reading.

Charlie, who is love interest in the story, was such a good person. I do think he was believable but I also think guys like him are very rare in this world.
If I was still into having book boyfriends I would probably have announced him as mine.

The best part of the story (and if my memory serves me well it is the case in all of the books written by Henry that I have read so far) are conversations between the characters.
They were realistic, entertaining and what made the story shine.

I also want to say that I appreciate that the conflict between the characters was realistic and how it was uncertain how characters would get through it.
I also want to note that I am happy about Nora not going through that cliche character development one would expect from a small town romance, but how the author decided to hug her career orientated persona and gave her a different way to find happiness.

This was a buddy red with my friend Amanda. Reading Book Lovers we had so much fun together.
As I loved this story so much, I am sure I will reread it again at some point. Honestly, I can’t wait for it!

I loved all the snark and sarcasm. I’m not usually a romance person but this was hilarious and steamy and I loved both characters so much!