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Book Lovers - Emily Henry
My first Emily Henry read! I feel like I’ve gone through some sort of bookish rite of passage yay me.
Wanted to give this author a go after seeing Happy Place absolutely everywhere and because I wanted something light before my heart gets destroyed by As long as the lemon tress grow (bookstagram has promptly warned me to be prepared).
Book Lovers follows Nora Stephens, a successful new York based publisher, as she swaps her high heels for a quaint little town aptly named Sunshine Falls in the middle of suburbia, where a certain Charlie Lastra, fellow new Yorker and publishing world colleague also happens to be there. And so it begins... rivalry, romance and a crash back to reality.
This was cute and fun. The book references littered throughout were very enjoyable (wish there were more) as well as the humour between the two. Would I say it was the deepest book in the world, no, but it was enjoyable and sweet. It was definitely giving 'The Proposal' energy, which is a comfort watch for me. There were times when it dragged on a little, where not much was happening, but overall a sweet read, so much so that I've gone ahead and picked up Happy Place.
My favourite quotes include:
- Maybe love shouldn’t be built on a foundation of compromises,for and more.
but maybe it can’t exist without them either. Not the kind that forces two people into shapes they don’t fit in, but the kind that loosens their grips, always leaves room to grow, compromises that say, there will be a you-shaped space in my heart, and if your shape changes, I will adapt. - Is there anything better than iced coffee and a
bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a book-store on a rainy day.
