Book Lovers: The Sunday Times bestselling enemies to lovers, laugh-out-loud rom com about two publishing rivals Paperback – 12 May 2022

From this book lover to Book Lovers: to me, you are perfect. It is full of feeling and side splitting humour. It has loveable characters and a cosy small town vibe; all the better to get emotionally attached to. With every chapter flowing flawlessly into the next, and no shortage of themes, Book Lovers was exceptionally difficult to put down.Henry writes beautifully about how life changes, never to be the same again; accepting the pain of that and embracing the hope of new memories and exciting adventures. At the heart of it all, is the bonds of family and what makes home, home.Furthermore, the characterisation of Nora was impeccable. She’s a workaholic, struggles to become emotionally attached (in all of her ex-boyfriends opinions) and cares more for pragmatism instead of whimsical romance. Henry takes character traits typically reserved for a villain in the romance genre, and gives them the limelight in a very refreshing and satisfying spin.As for the romance… Charlie and Nora’s chemistry sizzled off the page. They illustrated a very believable portrayal of an initial liking filled with banter and flirtation, into kindred spirits and love. They intellectually challenged each other and emotionally unravelled and supported the other, all of which provided fluffy feels, so many laughs and made me smile like the Cheshire Cat lord knows how many times. You know a romance delivers everything it ought to when the reader is left thinking: where’s MY Charlie Lastra????All in all, Book Lovers delivers a perfect contemporary romance. It’s a humorous and emotional warm hug of a book. I thoroughly loved it.

This is the first of Emily Henry's books I've read and it didn't disappoint!I loved Charlie and Nora so much, they are so perfectly matched, even though they are basically the same underneath, just looking for love and understanding in a world that seemed to be very lacking for them in that respect and they found it in each other.Charlie was such a sweetheart, nothing like the brash and cold person he let the world think he was in the beginning.And Nora wasn't a cold person either, just one who had buried her grief from losing her mother and her first relationship as deep as she could, so she could get on in life and look after her sister. Feeling those feeling would have meant her world came crashing down and she just couldn't do that, Libby was still a child and someone needed to hold it all together and get them out of trouble, and naturally that fell to Nora who somehow managed to just take it in her stride.But Charlie, he somehow found a way of showing her she could feel it and that its okay for her to just be herself cause he would be there to catch her if she fell and similarly she showed him, he wasn't the wrong person he had always felt like he was to everyone around him, like he didn't fit in or belong, she showed him he was the perfect person, for her ❤️Throughly enjoyed and I'm looking for to reading more from this author.

From one of the best prologues I've ever read to a nail biting ending when the HEA finale almost seemed impossible this was a real page turning enemies to lovers romance. Sensitive and sexy and in places so funny I laughed out loud. A heroine on a road to self discovery ... stacked with emotional pulls. What more can I say, except this is one of my favourite romances. A very skilled creation from a top selling writer who deserves to be so. Book Lovers was my first Emily Henry book. It most definitely won't be the last.

Overall, I enjoyed the story and thought that the book was well written with nicely drawn, likeable characters. But there was something missing and I’m not sure what that was. I bought the book two years ago and had tried to start it a few times, but didn’t and read something else, which should say something.Both Nora and Charlie had difficult childhoods, Nora because her mother died when she was young leaving her responsible for her younger sister and Charlie because he never felt as though he fitted into his family or his home town. This formed their characters and behaviours as adults, I suppose they worked hard long hours to compensate for the gaps in their lives, Nora as a literary agent and Charlie as a book editor.Then things changed; Libby, Nora’s sister, convinced her to spend a month together in the town that was the setting for one of their favourite novels, Nora never refused her sister anything and reluctantly agreed. Nora loved New York and didn’t know how she would cope without the internet or takeaways and the convenience of living in a city.The story was centred on the list Libby made and the township, but somehow the image I had of the place was a bit down at heel, with bizarrely name shops and restaurants, not the ideal holiday spot. Perhaps that was why I couldn’t get into it, the place seemed so unlikely. I enjoyed the romance aspect but the rest of it seemed to move quite slowly and the twist, if you like, did make sense of the choice of town but I was losing interest a bit by that time.