That said, Henry pulls off an ending that both fulfills the genre tropes while still surprising this teary-eyed reader. 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. Two years later, Nora’s little sister Libby asks her to go on a trip to Sunshine Falls, the iconic location from Dusty’s most recent bestseller Once Upon a Lifetime. The trickiest part of romance is sticking the landing. When she tries to give Dusty’s book to a new editor named Charlie Lastra, however, the two immediately dislike each other, and Nora decides she will never work with him again. 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.
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. It’s been a while since a romance novel made me burst out cackling on the second page, but Emily Henry has done it. 'The Storyteller' by Dave Grohl, available on Amazon and Bookshop, from 17.99 Dave Grohl has become internationally renowned as the drummer for Nirvana and the Foo Fighters and in this memoir, he.
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