Beach Read was a book I hand sold all last summer, so I was ecstatic to get an ARC from NetGalley of Emily Henry’s latest. Once again she has elevated a romcom to something with more depth with her witty dialogue and emotional breadth of her characters. Poppy and Alex meet freshman year at college and they become friends over the course of years even though they are very different people. They work hard to maintain the friend zone as they don’t want to lose each other. They start traveling together during the summer even whilst dating other people and have great/horrible/hysterical vacations. Their efforts to maintain their friendship even though they clearly both want more are endearing and funny.
Poppy and Alex reminded me of Harry and Sally even before I read the afterword . I enjoyed the tip of the hat to the movie and Nora Ephron.