With summer being the season where all we want to do is lay half consciously on a beach, soaking up almost lethal UV rays and escaping stressful situations by reading about impossible romances, no one comes through to help quite like Emily Henry does.
Her two previous works: 'People We Meet On Vacation' and 'Beach Read', hooked readers since the very first page, and left a fluttering feeling in their hearts whenever those stories got recalled or mentioned.
'Book Lovers', to many, unexpectedly, quietly took its rightful place on the same podium where those two books sat.
The protagonist Nora, is a ferocious literary agent, an organised and focused certified city girl on a level where I wondered if steroids were involved.
Nora, after being persuaded by her sister (her other half), for a break, finds herself in a small town in North Carolina straight out of a cheap romance novel easily found in a gas station.
Charlie, is an editor, with a view of the world as schematic as a rubik's cube, that has much more within him than what meets the eye. Add the fact that he is incredibly intelligent, sharp and for imagination's sake, strikingly handsome.
What Emily Henry never fails to do with her books, is developing the 'love' arch of the plot while placing it in second place.
It mainly follows the main character's life story, preciously unfolding it and placing in at the right time in the storyline, connecting the readers to the characters on an almost intimate level.
I adore how love is still, the fuel of these stories, the driving force behind every word, but it feels like a veil is draped over it, slowly revealing itself to something heartwarming and beautiful in the end, when the scene is complete and everyone is ready for the biggest reveal of all.
This story in its raw contents, is about two sisters, learning how to survive in a world haunted by grief, fear of losing one another, crushed dreams and hidden promises.
It is such a beautiful tale of acceptance and understanding that even if we cannot always have everything, even the smallest thing could be enough, could be more than enough, could simply be perfect in its own twisted little way.
It is a tale of resilience to fight for a life earned to be lived in that way.
All of the characters felt real, relatable and so incredibly reachable, almost like they were real people and what we were reading was just one big, perfectly described biography of someone's life.
This book was also so incredibly witty, it made me look like a psychopath as I found myself bursting into the loudest laughs in the most inappropriate hours of night and in public spaces.
What I liked the most about this book though, was its cleverness.
Emily Henry was able to take the small town romance trope, the whole literary world and the whole book within a book situation and twist it around, almost playing with it to perfectly match her intentions with the story, and she did a brilliant job at it for sure.
This book needs to be your go to summer read, trust me, for once I am sure everyone will find something to relate to within those words.
This book made me think that everyone has got to have an ending to their story that fits their life, whether we expect it or not, we just need to see if we are patient enough to wait for it or if we find ourselves so impatient, to immediately look at the last page to see how it ends.
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