Rating 3 out of 5
Pros The ending 🙂
Cons Wish that I read the book in paperback rather than audiobook
Synopsis from Goodreads Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex, Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything and haven’t spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong? From the New York Times bestselling author of Beach Read, a sparkling new novel that will leave you with the warm, hazy afterglow usually reserved for the best vacations.
How did I hear about this book I was leaving the Lizzo concert in Philly and needed something to keep myself awake on the drive home. While waiting to get out of the parking lot, I browsed Libby and found this book was highly rated and seemed interesting enough.
Review As I’m going back to write this review, nothing is honestly jumping out at me as either great or particularly bad. This book, to me, was just blahs I unfortunately don’t have much more to say, other than [SPOILER] I’m glad Poppy got over herself in the end and told Alex.
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