Book Lovers by best-selling author Emily Henry was fun!
The narrator and main character, Nora, who was named after the fabulous Nora Ephron, was a book agent in New York. She was a fabulous heroine, hard-working, independent and would do anything for her clients, although as it turned out, all of these attributes were at the expense of her personal life, since Nora was always the woman who got dumped when her latest boyfriend decided to move to a small town to be with the sweet, small-town girl he had just met.
When Nora agreed to spend a month with her sister Libby in a small town called Sunshine Falls, which incidentally, had been used as the setting for one of her client's best-selling books, Nora's world was turned upside down. Cows, peace and quiet, nowhere to get a good coffee and only one bookshop in town were the stuff of Nora's nightmares, which then got worse after Nora realised that Charlie, a crabby editor who she had met and argued with back in New York, was also staying in Sunshine Falls.
Nora and Charlie were never going to be anyone else's love interests, but together they were perfect. Their banter was funny and clever, and their chemistry was terrific.
Emily Henry made clever use of Nora and Charlie being a book agent and an editor, with various romance tropes being discussed and made fun of, even as they were used in this story. I especially loved that Nora was ambitious and hard-working, and was rewarded accordingly (take that, all of you sweet, small-town girls who usually win the hero's heart).
Book Lovers was a terrific summer read.
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