The Friends-to-Lovers Novel That Made Me Cry on a Train

People We Meet on Vacation alternates between the present and annual vacation chapters spread over ten years. The structure is what makes it work: you see the friendship and the slow shift underneath it before either character names what is happening. Emily Henry is very good at the specific emotional cost of wanting something you are afraid to want. By the time I reached the final chapters I was crying on a commuter train and did not particularly mind.