Sometimes, even when you start with the last page and you think you know everything, a book finds a way to surprise you.Įmily Henry writes some of the best dialogue, banter, and snark I’ve read in ages. And eventually, they end up working on a new project together, reading as the pages come in, shooting notes back and forth, and slowly realizing there is a sexual tension between the two of them that they just can’t deny. She to make her sister happy and him to take care of his father and help out at their local business, a book store that badly needs a business makeover. They keep bumping into each other and eventually, the backstories come out about why each of them is there. But the fact that it happens to also be Charlie’s hometown explains so much about why he didn’t love the book when she pitched it to him so long ago. When she gets into town it’s not exactly what she envisioned. But her sister thinks she needs to have a change in her life and has given Nora this list where she is encouraged to mark off her new experiences. Nora Stephens is only soft for Libby and her girls and that’s okay. She’s the tough, city girl who makes no apologies about being the tough city girl because she loves her city and she loves her routines and she loves being the biggest advocate for her clients. She’s the woman who always gets left when her boyfriend goes to a small town and meets the girl who changes him forever. Nora is adamant in the opening of Book Lovers that she isn’t the romance heroine who gets the guy. AND LOW AND BEHOLD WHO SHOULD ALSO BE THERE? You guessed it. The fact that it’s also the setting for her client’s lastest bestseller just makes it weird. Libby is the most important person in Nora’s life after the death of their mother and she will do just about anything she asks, even leave her beloved New York City and head to the middle of nowhere small-town America. If they are able to reconnect, even better. Libby is pregnant with baby number three and Nora can sense that she desperately needs this time together to relax and recharge. Now it’s several years later and Nora has agreed (under duress) to accompany her baby sister on a month-long vacation for just the two of them. He disparages the small-town setting and she takes umbrage and it only goes downhill from there. They first cross paths at a coffee meeting to discuss her biggest client’s new manuscript. Literary agent extraordinaire Nora Stephens and her editor nemesis Charlie Lastra. I’ve become an Emily Henry fangirl over the last couple of years, so when this book hit my Kindle I set aside everything to read.īook Lovers centers around two main characters deeply involved in the publishing world.

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