Get in your favorite-vacation mindset, whether that be poolside with a cold drink in your hand or cupping a warm mug in the mountains - either way, get super comfy and ready to devour this one. You could move to any one of those destinations you loved in small doses, and it wouldn't be the spellbinding, life-altering seven days you spent there as a guest, letting a place into your heart fully, letting it change you. It's the very fact that it's finite that makes traveling special. 'So I just keep holding on to him and tell myself that, for now, I should enjoy this moment. Red, White & Royal Blue Fans, Get Ready - Casey McQuiston's Newest Book Will Stop You in Your Tracks Told from Poppy's perspective, People We Meet on Vacation takes us back and forth between the duo's present-day trip to Palm Springs and the trips of their past, confronting the complex tangle of emotions they feel for each other along the way. In present day, Poppy is able to articulate that the last time she was truly happy was on her vacations with Alex, so she decides the pair should take one more trip together: a week in Palm Springs that will be capped off with Alex's brother's wedding. That is, until two years ago, when a trip to Croatia ruined everything and caused them to stop talking completely. A decade-long best friendship forms, with week-long trips every summer, just the two of them. However, they are randomly from the same small town in Ohio, and after the pair carpool back from school to said small town together, they realize that maybe they're more alike than they originally thought.

People We Meet on Vacation introduces us to Poppy and Alex, who couldn't be more different, a fact the former discovers the first time they meet freshman year of college. And while the two books tell completely different stories - Beach Read has an enemies-to-lovers plot, while People We Meet on Vacation is a friends-to-lovers story - I loved them equally. After falling in love with Emily Henry's Beach Read last summer, I couldn't slam the button fast enough to select her newest book, People We Meet on Vacation ($16), as my Book of the Month Club April pick.

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