Book Review: Book Lovers by Emily Henry

July 17, 2026

I think this might be my favorite Emily Henry yet (maybe besides Great Big Beautiful Life) I loved the characters and the issues didn’t seem too silly or too big. It was just all the way around lovely. Emily really has a knack for writing a wonderful romance, though. I am going to be sad when I am all caught up with her current releases.

We follow the story of a bright and busy city woman named Nora. She lives (and loves) New York with every fiber of her being. She is hard working and polished and really freaking good at her job. Which has lead not one, not two, but three of her exes running to small towns and falling in love with a local leading to her getting dumped. The is the “girlfriend back home” in every one of these guys stories and is kind of sick of it. Nora is a literary agent, and a really good one, and she eats breathes and sleeps books. The beginning of the book starts with her meeting with a storm cloud of an editor to try to get one of her authors signed and he shoots her down before lunch is even ordered. He’s checking his watch and is frank and rude and Nora isn’t mad that she won’t have to work with him again (even though he’s actually pretty gorgeous). Jump forward a few years, her sister decides they’re going on a trip to a small town written about in one of Nora’s authors books  for some little R&R before her third baby arrives in the fall. Who happens to be there other than the storm cloud. Why is he here? Is he a fan of the book that he turned down? Why is Nora’s sister so insistent on having a small town adventure and why is she being so secretive?

This book had sisterhood, friendship, small town charm, big city excitement and sweet romance. I loved it.