Book Review: BOOK LOVERS by Emily Henry!

Emily Henry does it again. Another good book to take you away from everyday life. Ideally read with your toes stuck in the sand while on the beach, but it was just as lovely reading it in the house, no sand… I always like a good setting (small town, North Carolina) – it makes me want to move to a place like that. Nice people, a bookstore, great small town vibe, etc. Add this book to your TBR list…

A bit about the book…

Here’s a blip from Emily Henry’s website: emilyhenrybooks.com:

about book lovers

One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn’t see coming…

Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away—with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.

If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.

My review on Goodreads is 3.5 stars – definitely worth the read!

My review on Goodreads now follows the Goodreads suggested format, which is essentially what I listed below. I think previous reviews may have been rated a bit higher than shown below.

I’m using the Goodreads rating policy effective FEB 2026: