Review: Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Do you know what I like in my romance novels?
When the buy falls in love first.
When they are intellectual equals.
When the girl loves her career.
When friends and family are important to the plot.
When women are not teens but still don’t have their lives figured out.
When the characters feel like they are not the main character.
When it is a slow burn and the romance comes from friendship.
When both are conscious of their flaws and are working on them.
…
Basically, when they read each other and love what they find.
Book Lovers by Emily Henry is THE romance. Nothing compares to it. Nora represents the foil of every movie heroine in the rom-com we grew up with: You’ve Got Mail, the Devil Wear Prada, etc. Nora is a sharp, hard-working woman that focuses on her career as a literary agent. From a very young age, she has looked over her younger sister sacrificing her personal desires for what she must do.
Her survival depended on creating a mask of perfection with a cold heart, and she knows it. When her boyfriend leaves her for a small-town girl, she is not surprised, as this has happened before. She represents fast-paced New York life and she will not apologize for it. She is better off alone with her peloton and her expensive skincare routine.
When her little sister encourages her to go on a trip to a small town and live their rom-com fantasies, she bumps into Charlie Lastra, a cut-throat editor who, like her, carries family obligations that take him away from exploring his own feelings.
If Charlie and Nora were in a movie, they would be left for their more wholesome counterparts for the main couple to settle for the whole nuclear family, a white fence, and a dog in the middle of nowhere.
…but this is their time to find each other and realize that there is a version of love for them.
When the buy falls in love first.
When they are intellectual equals.
When the girl loves her career.
When friends and family are important to the plot.
When women are not teens but still don’t have their lives figured out.
When the characters feel like they are not the main character.
When it is a slow burn and the romance comes from friendship.
When both are conscious of their flaws and are working on them.
…
Basically, when they read each other and love what they find.
Book Lovers by Emily Henry is THE romance. Nothing compares to it. Nora represents the foil of every movie heroine in the rom-com we grew up with: You’ve Got Mail, the Devil Wear Prada, etc. Nora is a sharp, hard-working woman that focuses on her career as a literary agent. From a very young age, she has looked over her younger sister sacrificing her personal desires for what she must do.
Her survival depended on creating a mask of perfection with a cold heart, and she knows it. When her boyfriend leaves her for a small-town girl, she is not surprised, as this has happened before. She represents fast-paced New York life and she will not apologize for it. She is better off alone with her peloton and her expensive skincare routine.
When her little sister encourages her to go on a trip to a small town and live their rom-com fantasies, she bumps into Charlie Lastra, a cut-throat editor who, like her, carries family obligations that take him away from exploring his own feelings.
If Charlie and Nora were in a movie, they would be left for their more wholesome counterparts for the main couple to settle for the whole nuclear family, a white fence, and a dog in the middle of nowhere.
…but this is their time to find each other and realize that there is a version of love for them.
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