Almost 5 stars! I really enjoyed this book. I believe this was my first time reading Ellie Palmer, but won't be the last, I hope. I loved the long and rocky emotional journey that the author took us on this friends-to-lovers story.

When I first started reading this book, I immediately knew I was going to enjoy reading it. Anywhere With You is the kind of story that reminds you why you love romance novels! It is messy, it's honest, and warms your heart and makes you laugh! It’s a cute and fun romance. The road trip environment was fun especially the trucker stop, I kept laughing out loud!

Thank you to NetGalley and PENGUIN GROUP Putnam /
G.P. Putnam's Sons for sharing this ARC with me in exchange for my honest review.

Charley heads out on a roadtrip with her childhood BFF, Ethan, in an attempt to stop her sister from eloping with her boyfriend.

The roadtrip is filled with banter, sarcasm, familiarity, and that ever growing tension between them. So, you know it is going to be a wild ride.
Charley is coming off her recent divorce and is trying to find herself again and to find out what is next. Especially when her younger sister decides to do something rash. Like elope. Charley felt authentic and real and her anxiety was perfectly written. I really liked Charley and was rooting for her from the start.

As much as I liked Charley, I think I loved Ethan more. He was exactly what Charley needed and came to her at the right time. Even though they have known each other for their entire lives, reconnecting was everything.

This was my first Ellie Palmer read and I am definitely a new fan.

Anywhere With You is a friends to lovers emotional book filled with longing and depth. This book made me feel and laugh out loud. It explores the wounds that can come from family of origin while also acknowledging the power of friendship and found family. While, I think the fmc’s significant changes happened abruptly without the benefit of her much needed therapy, it was still a lovely and engaging read that I would recommend.

Between the cover and the story, I just loved Anywhere With You! Charley is done with romance after her divorce and is focusing all her energy on her job, that is until her sister announces she’s eloping and Charley will do anything to stop it—including dropping everything to roadtrip to the wedding with her childhood best friend Ethan, who is chronically unreliable. And with every mile, she begins to questions her rules and her friend starts to become something more. I loved Charley, I loved Ethan. I loved their history and the pacing of this. The banter is so good, and it just has so much heart. Charley’s sister is so open and their relationship is so special. Plus Ethan’s pining!! He is so sweet and earnest, and he just really has Charley’s back. And Charley is so complex and relatable. She’s been hurt and she’s doing her best to find her place, and I just loved her growth. This whole book was just so cute and I was just so pleasantly surprised by it! Definitely will be checking out more from this author!

Thank you G. P. Putnam's Sons and NetGalley for the e-arc of Anywhere With You in exchange for an honesty review.

Okay, Ellie Palmer I see you. I'm about to go read Four Weekends and a Funeral, because this one was perfection.

If you are looking for a great childhood friends to lovers rom-com seriously look no further. This type of rom-com is so underrated it's comical. There's something about childhood friends to lovers that is the best type of trope to me for a rom-com. Forget enemies to lovers, workplace rivals, brothers best friend. I want childhood friends to lovers in a rom-com.

Review time is here. Charley is such a type A person that it's hilarious to me that everyone around her are all type B's and just go with the flow. I appreciated the dual time line of this as it gave perspective as to what was going through the minds of not only Charley but of Laurel, Petey, and Ethan as the story progressed and events from the past were mentioned.

The "3rd act break-up" to me was actually believable in a way that makes sense to the story of Charley and Ethan. I also loved how both Petey and Laurel came to their relationship rescue much like how Charley and Ethan(I'm presuming here because it's never stated that Ethan would help Petey through off points of his relationship with Laurel) would do for them.

I love how Ethan never stopped trying to show Charley how much he was in love with her for years. The Dove chocolates, the songs that he wrote about her, and the penis straw being a part of the proposal at the end. UGH love that he remembered all the details.

Once again, thank you to G. P. Putnam's Sons and NetGalley for the e-arc of Anywhere With You in exchange for an honest review.

Thank you PRH Audio and Putnam Books for my gifted copies. All opinions are my own.

Four Weekends and a Funeral was one of my favorite books last year and I’ve been so excited for Anywhere With You! Karissa Vacker did an amazing job with the narration.

Charley Beekman is a young divorcee and overworked lawyer. She finds out her free spirited sister and her on again off again boyfriend are going to elope. She’s determined to intervene so she ends up roadtripping there with her best friend, Ethan, who she hasn’t seen since he left her bachelorette party.

Ellie Palmer’s books just make me smile. There is always so much banter and chemistry between the characters. I loved seeing Ethan and Charley rebuild their relationship. It seems clear to everyone but Charley how down bad Ethan is (and always has been) for her. They have some wild road trip adventures while trying to make it to her sister before the elopement. I also loved how clearly Charley’s sister and her partner loved one another. Charley and sister had some work to do, but their sibling relationship was so relatable.

I hope for lots more books from Ellie Palmer because she has definitely sealed her auto-buy author status!

THANK YOU NETGALLEY for the chance to read this ARC.

Once I started this book, I immediately became obsessed and couldn't stop thinking about it. It's so heartbreaking to see Charley get in her own way, and it gives me chills to think of how strong Ethan's love for her was. Such a beautiful love.
I loved getting to see Laurel and Petey's relationship too!

This is an amazing story about love - familial, platonic, romantic. I immediately added this to my "books to buy" list 😍

Thank you to Net Galley and Penguin Group Putnam for the opportunity to read this ARC in exchange for my honest review.

Ellie Palmer's "Anywhere With You" is a captivating childhood friends-to-lovers romance that masterfully intertwines the road-trip and forced proximity tropes. The novel focuses on Charley Beekman, who is trying to rebuild her life after a painful divorce. At a time when Charley is still grappling with the remnants of her failed relationship, she learns from her sister, Laurel, that she is eloping.

In a desperate attempt to prevent this elopement, Charley reconnects with her childhood friend Ethan. Their journey is portrayed through dual timelines, past and present, revealing the deep-seated trauma Charley harbors from her parents' turbulent relationship. Her fear of love and abandonment intensifies as she faces the prospect of her sister's marriage, fearing she will be left alone as everyone eventually leaves her.

The interactions between Charley and Ethan are filled with delightful banter, blending humor with heartfelt moments. One of the standout scenes is the uproarious naked race through the woods, which adds a touch of hilarity to the narrative.

Palmer's storytelling is both touching and amusing, making "Anywhere With You" a thoroughly enjoyable read. For me, it earned a solid 5-star rating, thanks to its engaging characters and well-crafted emotional arcs.

Thank you to NetGalley and Ellie Palmer for the opportunity to read this book early.

Charley is newly divorced and figuring out her next steps. Enter her long-time friend, Ethan, who disappeared from her life 2 and a half years ago. Ethan is a free spirit musician, happy to go where the wind takes him. Charley wants a life with structure, predictability, and stability. Laurel, Charley's sister has announced her sudden engagement to her on and on flame Petey. Charley takes a sudden road trip with Ethan to stop Laurel from making a potential mistake. As they travel through Minnesota, Charley and Ethan pick up where they left off and start to see each other and their mistakes in a new light.

I loved Ellie's debut, Four Weekends and a Funeral. To say I was excited for her next book is an understatement. I loved this friends to lovers story. The way that Charley and Ethan's relationship fell apart was reflective of what I have experienced myself. I found their coming together so sweet and realistic. The hijinks throughout this book were hilarious. What surprised me was the dynamic between Laurel and Charley. Their past experiences influencing how they view love and their own relationship. I loved this story. Ellie writes with such a grounded tone while also bringing in hilarious laughs and deep emotion. I can't wait to see what she writes next.

I love Ellie Palmer and Road Trip Romances.
Ellie can do no wrong. I was captured from the first page and the personal growth these characters found individually and together was written with perfection! The MN setting is described perfectly and is nostalgic as a fellow Minnesotan! Great tension and banter and a 5 star read for me.
I can't wait to see what Ellie writes next!

Yeah, I’m sorry, no book is ever going to sell me on van life being charming or romantic. This book didn’t grip me in the way I hoped - I didn’t care for the main love story or the surrounding characters. Palmer’s first book was stronger than this, IMO.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

3⭐
Genre ~ women's fiction
Setting ~ Minnesota
Publication date ~ August 5, 2025
Publisher ~ Penguin Group Putnam
Est Page Count ~ 288 (p+ 24 titled chapters +e)
Audio length ~ 10 hours 0 minutes
Narrator ~ unknown
POV ~ single 1st, present tense
Featuring ~ present & past timeline, childhood best friends, friends to lovers, road trip, one bed, workaholic lawyer, no steamage

Charley (28) is blindsided when her husband asks for a divorce. But were they really that compatible anyway? Now she’s off on a road trip with her childhood best friend, Ethan, to try to stop her sister from marrying her childhood best friend.

I really like when there's a past timeline for my childhood best friend stories because I like to know how it all began and who was pining for who, or was it both of them?

Charley, Charley, Charley, ugh. I just couldn’t get behind her ‘my way or the highway’, ‘I know best’, workaholic mentality. She’s not totally unbearable, but very unlikable, and I never warmed up to her and wanted Ethan to gun his camper van and get away from her as fast as he could. But alas, he’s a sweetheart and not how he is. The romance is light as it’s more of her figuring herself out.

Overall, I didn’t love this one like I wanted to. There were some funny bits, but it’s hard when you can’t like the main character especially when they’re the only narrator. Even a few chapters from Ethan would have been nice.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice: 🌶️
Tropes:
* Childhood friends to lovers
* Recent divorcee
* Road trip
* Type A & Type B personalities
* He’s yearned for a longggg time

Thank you to Net Galley, Ellie Palmer, and G.P. Putnam’s Sons for this eARC! This was a great second book by Ellie and I was grateful for the chance to read it!

I enjoyed how this book was organized. I especially liked the flashback scenes from when they were younger. They give a real understanding of how good of friends they were, their backgrounds and Charley’s troubled childhood, as well as her relationship with him as adults before and after she gets married.

They also help us readers understand why she’s so averse to let anything happen romantically between her and Ethan because his nomad life is too much like the one she had as a child with her father. She doesn’t want to just be stuck following a man around. She wants stability and control of her life. I also felt like she saw her live life reflected in her sister’s too, which makes sense why she really spirals and wants to have Ethan there with her on her mission.

My only small complaint is that we don’t get to see a full spicy scene in the van, so this is a clean book. I understand each author has their preferences, but I wanted to revel in their first time and didn’t get that opportunity. But I did feel their emotional connection through the narration of this book was strong enough to let that go for the sake of her storytelling.

His confession about her wedding made my heart leap while reading how he really felt about her marrying someone other than himself. But I also felt upset because he had years to admit those feelings to her. I will admit this is a trope I don’t like as much because that means years of wasted, unrequited love between two friends who are so right for each other. It surprised me he didn’t try sooner, before she was in a serious relationship. But again, this does add to the tension and buildup between them, because it’s a long time of yearning that bubbles up to the surface when they’re finally together in person again.

I was glad it was a short third act “breakup”. I think it was done well because I understood her fears-she dealt with so much as a child and her father coming and go-that she could not ever accept that in her own adult life. But he compromises and validates those fears by assuring her that his love won’t ever go away. That HE won’t go away. It’s all she needed to let go of the things holding her back, and moving forward to the good things with him. I absolutely loved that ending for them and felt it was just what they needed from each other. 🥰

I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I have been looking forward to reading Palmer’s next book ever since reading her debut, Four Weekends and a Funeral. And it was definitely with the wait. I really like her writing style and that her characters are dynamic, not static. This was especially apparent since we got glimpses of who they had been throughout their histories. There were also themes regarding the impact of parental relationships on children, positive and negative. Charley and Ethan have been best friends for fifteen years. When Charley learns that her sister is eloping she enlists her estranged best friend’s help in getting there so she can try and talk her sister out of it. As we go along on their misadventures we learn what it was that put a rift between them and the evolution of their relationship through flashbacks. There is something so vulnerable about opening yourself up to a romantic relationship with a dear friend. The risk of those feelings not being returned by someone who knows the rawest parts of you can be paralyzing. This is what Charley and Ethan are each experiencing as they test the waters. Charley is also dealing with trust issues due to her own divorce and the tumultuous marriage of her parents. This was such a sweet story of reconciliation. Palmer is on her way to becoming an autobuy author for me.

Such a heartwarming, funny, and sweet friends to lovers romance. I had very high expectations based on how much I loved Ellie Palmer’s debut and she did not disappoint.

Perfectly placed flashbacks that gave us just enough to build up the history between Ethan and Charley. Sweet and lovable side characters and a plot to get them together again.

Such a lovely epilogue too! One I’ll be thinking about for a long time!

From the author of Three Weekends and a Funeral, this book releases in August but I had to get my hands on a copy. Thank you to @netgalley for the arc to read and review!

On the heels of a divorce, Charley is a type A heroine who is hell bent on having stability and routine and a plan to counteract her nomadic childhood. When her sister decides to elope with her on and off again boyfriend, she decides she must rush to her side and talk some sense into her. Her childhood best friend, hottie RV traveling, musician and free spirit Ethan and Charley set off to the campground and we’ve got childhood friends who maybe have been withholding some feelings, forced proximity, truck stop showers, canoe incidents and some quirky side characters. So much fun and glad I picked it up.

This was a super cute story! I loved the vibes because being a MN native it was fun to see a few places I have been mentioned. We meet Charlotte and Ethan both are polar opposite but have been in love with each other since they were kids. This was a cute story of second chances and love that follows you your entire life. There was a lot of growth for all the characters throughout the story. If you enjoy second chances, character growth, childhood best friends then this is definitely for you!

Thank you NetGalley and Putnam Publishers for this advanced copy for my honest review

* will share on instagram closer to pub date* ANYWHERE WITH YOU by Ellie Palmer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ thank you NetGalley for the advanced copy! As a friend’s to lovers girl, I was so excited to dive into this one. The amount of times I laughed out loud AND yelled at the friends to give in and become lovers, was a lot. There were a lot of messy relationships in this book, but I loved the resolution and watching them work through it. Was this overly meaningful or life changing? No. Did I enjoy and binge it? Yes! If you need a fun, easy, romance that will give you all the emotions, highly recommend!

Charley is a freshly divorced attorney who is sad and lonely. When her free spirited sister calls and tells her she is eloping, Charley and her best friend hit the road to try and intervene. Together in the camper van, sparks that had been hidden away begin to fly.

Pub. Date: August 5, 2025.

Perfect if you like:
•Childhood friends to lovers.
•Only one bed.
•He falls first.
•Road trip.
•Hilarious banter!
•Finding yourself again.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice: 🌶️ (fade to black ch. 17)
Mood: 🌮🍩

🚪: 🌶️ (fade to black ch. 17)
⚠️: explicit language.

This was cute and I enjoyed it. It wasn't anything too amazing but it was a nice, easy read. Thank you for the ARC.