Book Lovers | Emily Henry
"is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny say? i mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day?"
I loved this book so much. It brought out some feelings I wasn't ready for and I hold so much tenderness for these lovely characters. It's my first Emily Henry but definitely not my last. I may have just found another favorite author.
Nora is a literary agent and Charlie an editor in NYC. They meet under less than ideal circumstances (by this I mean - they have a meeting where she's just gotten dumped over the phone again and he has a plane home to catch because his father has had a stroke; he rejects her client's book flat out and she is almost personally insulted.)
Nora's sister Libby is her opposite: where Nora is cold and guarded, Libby is sunshine and sweetness. In her third pregnancy, she decides to take Nora on a trip to Sunshine Falls (the setting of the best-selling book Charlie rejected) for some sisterly bonding. Unable to deny her sister anything, Nora agrees. What she didn't count on was seeing Charlie there - the thought that this was his hometown had never even crossed her mind and he so thoroughly doesn't fit in. But there they were, navigating the awkwardness.
Spending time with him makes her rethink her life philosophy - that she is the antagonist in every rom*com, the high-powered city slicker girlfriend in every love story that gets left by the hero when he finds a down-to-earth sweet small town girl of his dreams. If only this exact scenario hadn't happened to her. More than once, actually. On the other hand, Charlie is certain that he could never be anyone's hero or the romantic lead in any story. Yet still, something between them is crackling. When Libby reveals the reason for their trip, the person Nora turns to is the one she once despised.
With their time running out, they both try to put on brave faces and soldier on. But maybe those stories they thought they'd never be a part of are being written. Maybe they are the leads in this love story...
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