That said, Henry pulls off an ending that both fulfills the genre tropes while still surprising this teary-eyed reader. But she’s late, he’s surly, they annoy each other, and, well, we know where this is going. Nora is a literary agent, and Charlie has rejected a book Nora is very confident will sell. If readers expect an HEA but your whole book is predicated on life not always ending on a happy note, how do you reconcile the two? There’s a part of me that wonders, if Book Lovers had been written to lean more into the literary fiction side of things, if it might have turned out differently. Immediately after she is dumped, she has a lunch meeting with an editor, Charlie, and it doesn’t go spectacularly well. author Q&As and a community of book lovers. The trickiest part of romance is sticking the landing. Book Lovers is Emily Henry’s newest bookish summer beach read, and it delivers on everything it promises to be. For 'Happy Place' author Emily Henry, writing romance novels is an act of hope wrapped in a happily-ever-after. The novel also continues a growing trend in contemporary romance that I hope is here to stay, wherein the love affair isn’t the only heartstring being tugged. Emily Henry wants justice for the Big City Woman. Nora Stephens life is surrounded by books, as a literary agent in New York.

Henry has outdone even herself by presenting a delightfully prickly enemies-to-lovers romance that brutally takes apart the Hallmark Happily Ever After and sensitively revises it into something more realistic yet still swoon-worthy. Book Lovers by American author Emily Henry is a colourful, comfy romance fiction. It’s been a while since a romance novel made me burst out cackling on the second page, but Emily Henry has done it. It is humanly impossible for Emily Henry to write a bad book.

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