This was an easy read for me. I read Emily Henry’s Beach Read probably in a day (and it was on my list of top 20 reads in 2020), so I knew what I was getting into with her writing style and romantic plots. With that being said, I absolutely loved it. I loved the personalities of Henry’s characters who became so tangible that they almost seemed real. I loved the exotic destinations and the descriptions that came with them. The plot was the only thing that would take off points on this novel for me.

With the plot, I felt so frustrated with Alex and Poppy’s relationship. While I’m so sure this was absolutely intentional, the things that kept them apart seemed so… lackluster to me. Nothing keeping them apart seemed monumental to me so the whole time I was reading it I was kind of just like “C’mon already.”

Spoilers ahead.

So, yeah, the whole marriage and moving back to her hometown seemed not as tantamount as Poppy made it out to be. The fact that they were opposites in every way? Also didn’t seem like a huge gamechanger to me. Maybe that’s just because my husband and I are total opposites and I never had a problem with it, but what kept Alex and Poppy apart just felt small in comparison to their relationship as a whole. They totally could’ve gotten together much earlier, but, of course, then where would the novel be?

Overall, this light read was romantic, cutesy, exotic, and totally vacation-read-worthy. Alex and Poppy have an undeniable chemistry and the whole world that Emily Henry has built? Her writing was so amazing that I traveled right along with her characters and seeing the world has never been so beautiful through the eyes of a book.

Source: Audiobook from Overdrive Local Library