Review: People We Meet On Vacation

 

Since I've been using "fondamento" font for a while now, I decided to switch it up this time. You know, just in case the same font begins to get boring. Okay, I'mma be honest, I got bored with that font because I've been using it for quite  a while. And monotony is not something that we will have here in this blog. Simply not my style, you know.

Poppy and Alex have nothing in common. They're polar opposites. While Alex would rather sit in his house with his cat, reading a book, Poppy would struggle to even keep a houseplant alive and go on travelling around the whole world. However, from a college encounter many years ago, they have become the best of friends, and have taken a summer trip together since. But for two  years, neither of them have talked to each other and when suddenly a prospect of a summer trip comes up, Poppy calls Alex again, to take this trip together, maybe even mend the broken friendship.

QUICK THOUGHTS AND REVIEW: 4.2/5, BEAUTIFUL STORY, THOUGH THE DYNAMIC CONFUSES ME.

  

WHAT DID I FEEL ABOUT THE  BOOK'S: 

1. Writing Quality: The writing is a bit confusing in the beginning, though it does begin to take shape after the first few chapters, when everything begins to make sense. While I am not a fan of info-dump, there is quite lack of it in the beginning chapters which, could be counted as a downer. And then there is a sudden information dump, I know I am being hypocritical, but that is a downer too. There is quite a lot of information dump when the story goes back to the past and it is a bit hard to get through compared to the present. Plus, there is the time change in between chapters. Some places, they did seem highly unnecessary to me, other places, they seemed like an important part to the puzzle. But otherwise, really good prose.

2. Character Development: I was really surprised at the character development that happens here. Most of the time or most of the adults that I have seen actually refuse to accept themselves or accept change or even change. And it's really wonderful to see Poppy and Alex, who are both grown up adults in their thirties are being accepting of themselves and actually going out to seek therapy to know what is wrong with them. Very few millenials I know would actually admit that something is wrong with them and seek therapy. And even a fewer lot of them would admit to their feelings by putting their pride aside, so yes, I do love how Poppy and Alex work it out between them. Their dynamic does confuse me in the beginning, it is a bit difficult to understand as to how they fall into ease after having minimal to no contact for 2 years without no awkward conversations or silences, it's kind of hard to accept when I see it.

3. Couldn't put it down- Ness: 7/10, it took me a good while to get through the first half of it. And I pretty much got distracted because of that.

4. Plot Twists: There aren't a lot of plot twists to be honest, and I don't know if I am actually happy with that or sad. Because at a point I do feel like a plot twist would have done the book a bit better or glad that there was no plot twist so that their already complicated relationship did not become more complicated. I think it's the latter but I am still a bit confused as to how I feel. I hope I'll figure it out soon enough.

5. Plot: Summer trip trope, with friends, hoping to reunite once again. If I will be pretty honest, this is a trope that does come second to the road trop trope. And the road trip trope is one of the best tropes to ever exist when it comes to contemporary. Summer trip is also a good trope and it really is fun to see Alex and Poppy have fun and get into trouble while also struggling with it. Like I can imagine myself going on a trip like that with my friends and everything ending up wrong ESPECIALLY the hotel room.  Kind of reminds me of that scene from Monte Carlo. God I need to re-watch that movie again.

OVERALL, AN OKAY READ, I still have mixed feelings about it ngl.