So while I did like this book , it was a little too predictable for me ! I do think it started out on a high note but just fell flat for me. Charley made me mad a couple times and I get it she just went through a divorce but trying to ruin her sisters wedding annoyed me ! Also it was obvious Ethan was in love with her !

I loved this book! Couldn’t put it down and was smiling and laughing at parts. Charley was likeable and someone I was rooting for as she worked through her life post divorce. Ethan was her perfect match but just had to wait for the right timing.

𝗔𝗻𝘆𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗬𝗼𝘂 is the culmination of every sitcom romance in one cover.

Charley is in a bit of a pickle. She's got a wedding to call off - not her own, her sister's.
So she's on a road trip cooped up with none other than Ethan Powell, her best friend, forbidden fantasy, and the man who deserted her wedding, whom she hadn't spoken to, not before her marriage fell apart. Just as he said it would.
No hard feelings at all.

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Charley and Ethan were inevitable. That's the first thing I thought of when I read their backstory.
The rest is history as they say.
Their romance was subtle throughout the years, in their lingering eyes and unfinished sentences.
Actually it was more than romance. It was their entire life.

Each detail was intricately crafted to portray how and why each character was the way they were. The way their families made them into who they are today but how their love will make them into who they'll be tomorrow.

Overall, all the nuances made up for a spectacular read.

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3.97 / 5 ★

Thanks to Putnam Books and Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This is my first Ellie Palmer book and I’m pleasantly surprised! I really enjoyed this. Best friends to lovers is always a great read and she nailed it!

Thank you so much to Putnam and NetGalley for the advance reader copy of Anywhere With You by Ellie Palmer!

Following her divorce, Charley’s sister shares that she intends to elope with her childhood sweetheart, Petey. Intent to speak with her sister in order to stop the wedding, Charley embarks on a road trip into northern Minnesota. Her recently reappeared best friend, Ethan, is just the person to get her there in his camper van. Charley has worked hard to keep Ethan in the best friend zone but this becomes harder amidst their reunion.

I love Ellie Palmer so much! I adored Four Weekends and a Funeral and I’m obsessed with Anywhere With You. This is the ultimate friends to lovers romance! I enjoy stories where we move between the past/present and it worked so well for telling Charley and Ethan’s story. I also incredibly enjoyed the storyline for Petey and Laurel, told from the POV of our main pair. The last third of this book wrecked me (in the best way)!

Also, the simple words “Me” and “You” have never stirred my heart so much as in this book.

Highly recommend checking out this book on August 5, 2025.

I loved this book so much! The best friends dynamic/banter is delicious and had me laughing and kicking my feet. Probably one of the best friends as to lovers books I’ve ever read!

Thank you for the early copy!

ɴᴇᴛɢᴀʟʟᴇʏ ʀᴇᴠɪᴇᴡ || ANYWHERE WITH YOU [thank you to @putnambooks and @netgalley for my #gifted copy!]

I have been PAITENTLY (and not so paitently) waiting for the update that @elliepalmerwrites book had been updated on NetGalley so I could finally download it and read it…

Which I did — approximately 10 minutes after getting it on my kindle and it did not disappoint.

Title: Anywhere With You
Author: Ellie Palmer
Genre: Romance
Format: Digital
Star Rating: ★★★★★

ꜱᴜᴍᴍᴀʀʏ:
Charley Beekman has life mostly figured out—despite being a cash-strapped, career-languishing, 29-year-old divorcee. But when her free-spirited sister decides to elope with her chaotic childhood sweetheart, Charley sets off to stop the wedding. Her road-trip partner? Ethan, her infuriatingly gorgeous, commitment-phobic best friend. As sparks fly in their camper van, Charley must decide if risking her heart again is worth it—especially for the one person she swore she could never fall for.

ᴍʏ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜᴛꜱ:
5 Stars — No Notes. This was such a delight to read and I honestly could not put it down once I started!

Who’s a mom who ignored all her parental responsibilities this weekend to read a romance novel? This girl.

I absolutely loved watching Charley grow and change and realize that the life she built for herself wasn’t everything she thought it would be. That trying to find security in things wasn’t giving her the security she wanted - that people was where it was at.

And Ethan is a new top book boyfriend. His constant support, his facial expressions, and, honestly, his passion for his camper van were all top notch for me!

I highlighted full pages on my kindle because I couldn’t get enough of Palmer’s prose.

Just do yourself a favor and read this book. Honestly. I fully plan on getting the audiobook to do a reread later.

ʀᴇᴀᴅ ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ʟɪᴋᴇ:
“It’s Always Been You”
Friends to Lovers
Strong Character Development
Everything Goes Wrong
Dual Timeline
“Let’s Get It Out of Our Systems”

ᴅᴇᴛᴀɪʟꜱ:
GR: 4.38 ⭐️
# of Pages: 368
Pub Date: August 5, 2025

Nothing like getting divorced and suddenly finding yourself a road trip through the midwest with your childhood best friend and theres repressed feelings that finally come to light when you're in forced proximity? Sign me up!

This is my first book by Ellie Palmer and it will not be my light. Anywhere with you is romantic, hopefully and angsty in the best way. Charley is divorced and ditched the boring rich guy but when her sister plans to elope, she thinks its best to catch up and stop her. Ethan is someone she hasn't seen in years but my god, their chemistry right off the bat was perfection and undeniable. I loved the scenes where it goes back to childhood and them growing up and you can clearly see the pining. I love the moments of them alone, talking, you really see where the pick up and the nostalgia and the falling in love, right person, wrong time. It's such a swoony and cozy childhood friends to lovers that will leave you feeling warm and cozy inside!

Thank you #netgalley and #elliepalmerwrites for this early copy of Anywhere With You. What I adored about this book:
Friends to lovers
Close proximity trope
Lots of tension but classy fade to black in the romance department
Great banter between longtime friends
Their nicknames for one another.
Beautifully written and hard to put down. I read this sweet rom-com in two sittings. Now I’m going back to purchase Ellie Palmer’s first novel that I somehow missed! Great read!!!

Charley is recently divorced. She craves stability because of her childhood but when her sister decides to elope. Charley and her best friend Ethan decide to talk sense into them. This book journey of self discovery, laugh out loud moment and childhood friends to lovers.

Charming, funny and so sweet. I truly adored this book! Friends to lovers done so beautifully, while highlighting self-discovery and familial strains. Often I feel like the friendship is lacking with the use of friends to lovers - but that was not the case with this one. This was my first book of Ellie’s so now I need to read her debut!

Absolutely marvelous! As a lawyer, I can tell you reading lawyer characters can be somewhat difficult (I'm too close to it!). But in this case, Charley was so relatable and real, I found myself right there with her as she reconnects with her childhood best friend. This is a friends-to-lovers, forced proximity darling and I stayed up half the night reading it. I lost count of how many passages I highlighted and notes where I wrote "I LOVE him!" because Ethan is just that dreamy. There are so many funny bits and inside-jokes, that are stitched together to create this tapestry of friendship that may be something much more.

It's hysterical, it's a roadtrip adventure, and it's a deeply nostalgic dream of a book. I am going to push this book on every romance reader I know, because I know they will love it too.

Special thanks to NetGalley and GP Putnam's Sons for this ARC.

A wonderful, light quick read. The self discovery of this book was surprising but beautiful. I thoroughly enjoyed getting to know all the characters and going along for the road trip.

A 29 year old divorcee who is struggling to cope with being a 29 year old divorcee after 13 months of marriage. I couldn’t relate more. This story touched me in my feels on a personal level. On top of the high school back flash story and a flaming romance, this story showcases the bond of sisters. Oh and the angst of these two falling love is intense, highly recommend!

I really don't know what to say here. I guess more was expected while reading this book, but it just wasn't there for me.

As a Minnesota girly, I was so excited about this book, and it didn't disappoint. I loved all the name drops of familiar places and businesses across the state, especially the Kwik Trip shout outs. Although, there was no mention of our "state bird," the mosquito! Childhood-besties-to-lovers, closed door romance with memorable supporting characters. The sister and her boyfriend were my favorite. It's a cozy read.

Thanks to NetGalley and Ellie Palmer for the ARC e-read in exchange for my honest review.

After receiving feedback on what my next read should be, I decided to get a little rom-com in during the cold winter.
Anywhere With You, is Ellie Palmer's second book, after her much lauded Four Weekends and a Funeral (which I haven't read).
Anywhere With You is your typical, quirky road trip rom-com: Charley, recently divorced, finds out her fly by night sister is about to elope to a very questionable mate. At the last minute, Charley and her childhood friend Ethan hop into his van to explore the Minnesota woods and stop the wedding.

While, we know what's going to happen here: childhood friends turned lovers, this type of writing was far too BUSY for me. Maybe, cause I'm slightly older, and some of these romance books just don't connect, but regardless, it felt like I was in a book club, and along come ten very drunk women celebrating a bachelorette party yapping away, a mile a minute, discussing TikTok, really bad rap music, and favorite charcuterie board ideas all at the same time.

Some of the OVER-descriptions just needed to be simplified:

"What if Pamela finally handed me one of the software startups I’d been begging her to put me on and I wasn’t around to jump on it? What if the ants made a comeback in the downstairs laundry room and established a new society in front of the dryer by the time we returned? What if Laurel got in another fight with her roommate and the treehouse Airbnb she booked wasn’t the architectural wonder superhost Satchel promised but a literal children’s treehouse of the fisher price variety? "

"The woman lowers the camera and presses her hand to her collarbone with an elegance I find instantly intimidating. I have the posture of someone whose entire life is held together by nail glue and a bullet journal. I may not actually bullet journal, but I’m self-aware enough to admit that, energetically, I’m someone who’d buy a dot Moleskine in a moment of psychic despair and am thus programmed to find the woman in front of me equal parts terrifying and intoxicating."

Basically, this was like Gilmore Girls on steroids, but without the signature wit and humor. The writing did not flow naturally, instead it was ust forced in my face, and now I need a moment to recover.

4.5/5 stars
Charley has built a life that is as calm, polished, professional as they come...she's also found herself newly divorced from a relationship that on paper should have boasted the best of marriages. Determined to stop her fly-by-the-wind sister from eloping with her on-again/off-again boyfriend and sharing the same fate, she convinces her childhood best friend, Ethan, to road trip with her to stop the wedding.

Through a series of flashbacks, you see how Charley and Ethan grow their childhood friendship over the years, shining a light in how they want different things in adulthood. Charley, born to parents who moved as the wind blows, craves security and stability. Ethan, born with dreams beyond taking over his family's business, craves the open road and adventure. The best of friends, whose relationship is shredded the moment Ethan, as Charley's best man for her ill-fated marriage, left her high and dry on her wedding day and up until now has been radio silent until her divorce was finalized.

I really enjoyed how this road trip to save her sister pushed Charley and Ethan out of their respective comfort zones, to communicate what broke down their friendship at her wedding. And you know I love a friends to lovers trope, it's probably my favorite of them all. And I particularly enjoyed the relationship she has with her sister, her cornerstone for every time her parents took off to a new town in their dysfunctional relationship. This is my first Ellie Palmer book, but definitely not the last.

Many thanks to Penguin Random House, NetGalley, and Ellie Palmer for providing me with a digital review copy in exchange for my honest thoughts.

Thank you to NetGalley and Penguin Group Putnam for the advanced copy of this inspiring and heartfelt book.
I absolutely loved Ellie Palmer's last book Four Weekends and a Funeral, and this one didn't disappoint. It was just as charming with its humor and depth.
The story centers on Charley, a recently divorced lawyer who is on a road trip with her long-time best friend Ethan to get to and stop her sister's elopement.
Charley is a very complex character. She grew up without stability because they were either constantly moving or her dad was always off traveling the world without them. She made it her life's mission to grow up to have the most stable adulthood. Her best friend Ethan is a musician and lives in his nice camper van, traveling the country. Charley has never allowed herself to have feelings for Ethan because his life is the opposite of what she's always told herself was her dream and goal. You both understand her fear to take risks and want to shake her out of it and be more brave and present.
The book was hilarious and heartbreaking. There were several humorous situations that kept delaying their arrival and bringing them closer together. There were also moments when you didn't know how she could overcome dependency of a predictable and safe life, and you rooted for her to find a way.
I absolutely adored this book. It's one that makes you feel everything. I wanted to fly through it but also not let it end. I highly recommend it and can't wait to read more by Ellie Palmer.

ANYWHERE WITH YOU is one of the best friends-to-lovers romance I've ever read! It's full of emotional depth, genuine heart and charm to the characters who instantly cared about. Due to her childhood, Charley needs consistency and security whether that's having her own house, a stable well-paying job, a predictable marriage, and a future planned out. Her best friend of fifteen years, Ethan, is everything the opposite, a nomad living out of his van, a musician life, jobs here and there, and not able to keep a relationship. Though fresh off her divorce and still on rocky ground from Ethan not showing up to her wedding as her best man, Charley receives a text from Ethan saying he's in the area. And who better than to go on a roadtrip with Charley so she can talk sense into her sister and prevent her from eloping with Ethan's brother? As their connection deepens, Charley can't fully commit to him, believing that he will only hurt her as his wanderlust will have him running off somewhere else and leaving her all alone. What will it take for Charley to realize that being with him is more than worth the risk?

I really admired and loved witnessing their friendship and the love between them... their teasing and care for one another felt so pure. I really enjoyed Charley and Ethan's story and can't read to whatever the author grants us with next!!

Many thanks to Penguin Group Putnam and NetGalley for the arc in exchange for my honest review.