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The Romance Novel That Knows What It Is and Is Not Embarrassed
Book Lovers is about Nora Stephens, a literary agent who is always the career woman who gets left behind when her clients' muses sweep them to small towns and happy endings. When she actually goes to a small town and keeps running into Charlie Lastra, a book editor she has clashed with professionally, the novel becomes a meditation on the tropes it is consciously operating inside. Emily Henry is most herself here and it is the most satisfying of her novels for it.


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Reconsidering which Emily Henry book I should have started with

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A book is a beginning. Everything worth reading leaves you wanting more of something.


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Reading Book Lovers
5 Most accurate setting
5 Intelligent tension
5 Honest critique
5 Earns its warmth

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If you have read multiple Emily Henry novels, which is your favorite?
Book Lovers, the meta-commentary and the setting work together best
People We Meet on Vacation, the emotional efficiency is unmatched
Beach Read, the genre conversation was the most interesting element
Happy Place or another one not listed here