Book Lovers
The Sunday Times bestselling enemies to lovers, laugh-out-loud rom com about two publishing rivals
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4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
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- £4.99
Publisher Description
One holiday. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming...
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'Her best yet' Taylor Jenkins Reid, Malibu Rising
'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us
'Magical, delightful, and utterly one of a kind' Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis
Nora is a cut-throat literary agent at the top of her game. Her whole life is books.
Charlie is an editor with a gift for creating bestsellers. And he's Nora's work nemesis.
Nora has been through enough break-ups to know she's the one men date before finding their happy-ever-after. To prevent another dating dud, Nora's sister has persuaded her to swap her city desk for a month's holiday in Sunshine Falls.
It's a small town straight out of a romance novel, but instead of meeting sexy lumberjacks, handsome doctors or cute bartenders, Nora keeps bumping into...Charlie.
She's no heroine. He's no hero. So can they take a page out of an entirely different book?
Brimming with witty banter, characters you can't help but fall for and off-the-charts chemistry, BOOK LOVERS is Emily Henry's best novel yet.
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'Emily Henry's books are a gift, the perfect balance between steamy and sweet' V. E Schwab, Gallant
'So smart, so funny, so sexy' Beth O'Leary, The No-Show
'Emily Henry has another hit on her hands' Sophie Cousens, Just Haven't Met You Yet
'A thoroughly modern yet classic romance' Sunday Times
'Heartfelt, funny, and full of joy. (Also, three cheers for Nora's super-relatable bangs journey!)' Tia Williams, Seven Days in June
'The master of witty repartee' Daily Mail
'Super fun, sassy, smart, sexy... Emily Henry is now an auto-buy author for me' Red Magazine
'Book Lovers is Schitt's Creek for book nerds' Casey Mcquiston, One Last Stop
'The most phenomenal portrayal of enemies to lovers I have ever read. . .' Laura Jane Williams, Our Stop
Sunday Times bestseller, May 2022
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This is a sharp and funny rom-com featuring two book-loving sisters. Nora is a New York-loving literary agent who practically raised her younger sister and will do anything to ensure her happiness. So when pregnant mother-of-two Libby engineers an extended vacation to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina, she has no choice but to go. As the sisters work their way through Libby’s ridiculous checklist (which includes: “Go on at least two dates with locals” and “start a fire”) Nora is shocked to meet a familiar, if not entirely welcome, face in the tiny mountain town: moody Charlie Lastra, an editor who previously spurned one of her most successful authors. Filed with zingy and self-aware dialogue and a cast of well-rounded and endearing characters, Book Lovers cleverly plays with romantic tropes and the small-town narrative but puts family and love at its heart.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A summer trip spurs unexpected self-discovery in bestseller Henry's latest rom-com (after People We Meet on Vacation), a moving examination of love, belonging, and family. Since childhood, literary agent Nora Stephens has structured her life around taking care of her sister, Libby, four years her junior, so when an exhausted and—Nora fears—increasingly distant Libby suggests a monthlong trip to small-town Sunshine Falls, N.C., Nora eagerly agrees. As she wrestles with Libby's irritability and strives to make her happy while trying to find her own equilibrium—including making a surprising connection with her professional nemesis, editor Charlie Lastra, a Sunshine Falls native—Nora must turn fresh eyes on old problems. Meanwhile, things heat up between Charlie and Nora, but the demands of their professional lives may keep them apart. Henry expertly captures the complexities of close but unbalanced familial relationships along with the distance between the dreams of youth and the realities of adulthood. As usual, her sharp eye for detail in establishing setting and creating empathetic characters engages the reader, and Nora's well-shaded emotional struggles complement the steamy enemies-to-lovers plot and lovely scenery. This introspective romance is sure to please.
Customer Reviews
Easy read
Easy going but semi predictable
Good start, hard to finish
I think the start was great, really caught your attention but as the book progressed, it gradually got more difficult to stay engaged. The writing style wasn’t for me but it was an interesting story once finished.
Beautiful
This book has a lot of depth and was family orientated. The romance between Charlie and her was so real. Wish there was more spice but overall the book was brilliant!