Thoughts: This is the same author as Beach Read, and she brings the same light hearted vacation quick read to this. Two best friends started a tradition in college of taking a yearly trip together, but after a falling out on a trip they lose touch. They decide to take a trip together to see if they can/want to become friends again. The style of the book goes back between the current trip and then past trips which gives great insight of the history of their relationship and how they end up where they are. If you’re looking for a quick vacation read this was a nice light one.
Summary: Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.
Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.
Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.
Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?