It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away-with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story.
In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. Nora Stephens’ life is books-she’s read them all-and she is not that type of heroine.
Maren Longbella is a Star Tribune copy editor.A by-the-book literary agent must decide if happily ever after is worth changing her whole life for in this insightful, delightful novel. Regardless, you will certainly have fun on the journey (and with the romance!). Will Nora find love at last in the arms of a small-town doctor/farmer/innkeeper or maybe someone else? I think you know the answer to that. And as a literary agent, she should know: "When books are your life - in my case, your job - you get pretty good at guessing where a story is going."īut sister Libby is hoping to change Nora's story, make her the heroine of her own romance, and insists on the two of them vacationing in Sunshine Falls, N.C., the place that inspired a bestseller called "Once in a Lifetime," a small-town love story, typical of what's on the Hallmark Channel. Henry has a great deal of fun playing with romance's tropes and plot twists but especially so with main character Nora Stephens, who claims to be the archetype who never gets the guy, who is too involved with her career to care. And that's where Emily Henry's "Book Lovers" will grab you. Like so many things in life, it's the journey (and, yes, the romance!). But being surprised is not why we read them. Heck, sometimes you don't even have to open the book - it's all right there on the cover. It's usually obvious from page one who is going to end up with whom. "Book Lovers" by Emily Henry, Berkley, 384 pages, $27.
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