Tag: Opposites Attract

Review: People We Meet on Vacation

Posted February 12, 2026 by Wena in Reviews | 0 Comments

People We Meet on Vacation

Starring: Emily Bader, Tom Blyth
Also Starring: Sarah Catherine Hook, Lucien Laviscount, Mile Heizer
Country: United States
Year Released: 2026
Source: Netflix
Production Company: 3000 Pictures, Netflix Studios, Sony Pictures Releasing
Duration: 1 hour, 57 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Genres: Romance, Romantic Comedy
Tags: Friends to Lovers, Best Friends, Second Chance, Opposites Attract, Forced Proximity, Slow Burn Romance, Then and Now

Poppy wants to explore the world and Alex prefers to stay home with a good book, but somehow they are the very best of friends. They live far apart, but for a decade they have spent one week of summer vacation together.

I watched this movie without having read the book so I won’t be comparing the book to the movie. I have read some books by Emily Henry and I will admit that I wasn’t super impressed but this movie was good. I really enjoyed it. I thought the relationship between Alex and Poppy was cute right from the very beginning. From their first meeting, on the road trip, seeing Poppy win Alex over was a lot of fun.

Poppy has the kind of personality that is a lot to take so it would have been easy for me to dislike her flighty personality but she was my favorite character. She was such an easy character to connect with because her fears and her emotional issues are familiar. There were moments when my heart hurt for her but when she finally gets it together and puts things in motion, I was rooting for her big time.

Alex was my kind of hero. A little stiff, big heart, and confident in his feelings. He wasn’t so stiff that he was no fun and I really liked vacation Alex. The Alex that stood beside Poppy and had grand adventures all over the world. The Alex that showed up at Poppy’s house because she was too sick to go on a trip. The Alex that danced to Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul with Poppy. He was a lot of fun, and while I wasn’t the biggest fan of his relationship with Sarah even though he was clearly very in love with Poppy but we can’t all be perfect, LOL.

I thought the duration of this movie was just right because I didn’t feel like there were a lot of wasted scenes that didn’t add anything to move the story along. I was invested in the story being told, and while I didn’t understand all of Poppy’s decisions, or all of Alex’s feelings, I never not liked them. I never not rooted for them to find their happily ever after. This was a classic slow burn romance between best friends who fumbled their way along until they got it right and I was here for it. This movie was cute, it was fun, and I’m glad I watched it.

Final Rating

4 out of 5

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Review: Funny Story by Emily Henry

Posted October 17, 2025 by Brenna in Reviews | 0 Comments

Funny Story by Emily Henry

Reviewer: Brenna
Main Leads: Daphne Vincent, Miles Nowak
Setting: United States, Michigan, Waning Bay
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
Tags: Opposites Attract, Fake Dating, Roommates to Lovers, Small Town Romance, Friends to Lovers
Published On: April 23, 2024
Publisher: Berkley
Format: Audio
Source: Purchased
Pages: 395
Purchase It: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé, Peter, told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it… right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.

Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned-up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?

But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex… right?

This book is one of my favorite reads of the year because we were able to see and feel all the feels with both Daphne and Miles. I haven’t read a lot of books from the main male lead’s perspective so I loved that we got to know Miles while Daphne was getting to know him. It added so much to my enjoyment of the book as a whole cause I felt like we got a fuller understganding of the romance between Miles and Daphne. The twists were twisting and I loved every second of reading this book.

Daphne was my girl. I connected with her story a lot because I saw a lot of my story in hers. She was raised by a single Mom and she was close with her Mom. I was raised by a single Mom and I’m close with my Mom so it was easy for me to connect with a lot of the things that Daphne took into consideration when making life decisions. I loved that she always made her Mom a priority and was considerate of her Mom in all of her major decisions. I also really loved how supportive her mother was. The most important thing to her Mom was Daphne’s happiness and I really love a supportive Queen.

Seeing the relationship between Miles and Daphne blossom was a good time. They balanced each other out so well and challenged each other to be the very best versions of themselves and I just really dug it. I really liked how they handled whatever was thrown their way like adults and they just made it so easy to root for them and their romance was steamy enough to keep things interesting so all in all, I was a happy camper.

This book was so good that I couldn’t put it down. I was excited to see how everything played out and I liked getting both of the main leads perspectives for the same situations, even if we got Miles through his interactions with Daphne. They were so different from each other but together, they made sense so seeing them both move on from their relationships and come together in to their own was a treat that I’m glad I stuck around for.

I’m very happy that I picked up this book. I loved how everything came together, and obviously, this was a funny story so I definitely recommend.

Final Rating

5 out of 5

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Review: Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh

Posted May 5, 2025 by Wena in Reviews | 0 Comments

Slave to Sensation by Nalini Singh

Reviewer: Wena
Series: Psy-Changelings #1
Main Leads: Lucas Hunter, Sascha Duncan
Setting: United States, California, San Francisco
Genres: Romance, Paranormal, Urban Fantasy
Tags: Pack Alpha, Opposites Attract, Shapeshifter Romance
Published On: September 5, 2006
Publisher: Berkley Sensation
Format: e-Book
Source: Purchased
Pages: 334
Purchase It: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

Dive into a world torn apart by a powerful race with phenomenal powers of the mind—and none of the heart . . .

In a world that denies emotions, where the ruling Psy punish any sign of desire, Sascha Duncan must conceal the feelings that brand her as flawed. To reveal them would be to sentence herself to the horror of “rehabilitation”—the complete psychic erasure of everything she ever was . . .

Both human and animal, Lucas Hunter is a Changeling hungry for the very sensations the Psy disdain. After centuries of uneasy co-existence, these two races are now on the verge of war over the brutal murders of several Changeling women. Lucas is determined to find the Psy killer who butchered his packmate, and Sascha is his ticket into their closely guarded society. But he soon discovers that this ice-cold Psy is very capable of passion—and that the animal in him is fascinated by her.

Caught between their conflicting worlds, Lucas and Sascha must remain bound to their identities—or sacrifice everything for a taste of darkest temptation . . .

It’s AANHPI Month in the States so we’re going to try to feature as many AANHPI authors as we can this month because representation matters! I thought that this was the perfect opportunity to introduce the girls (well, Chloe and Jenna since Brenna only reads contemporaries right now) to Nalini Singh’s Psy-Changelings Series. Nalini Singh is one of my favoritest authors and she writes incredible paranormal romances that hit all of my happy buttons.

Slave to Sensation is the first book in her Psy-Changelings Series and it is a book that is near and dear to me because this book was my introduction to this world and to…Judd Lauren. To Kaleb Krychek. To Hawke Snow. To Aden Kai. And to so many more characters that I love the heck out of. This is one of the few ongoing series that I’m still reading and the adventure starts here.

Lucas Hunter and Sascha Duncan were compelling characters that were interesting on their own but they were magic together. Their romance was steamy as hell and Lucas was sexy as hell. The way that he had me blushing like a school girl and jealous of Sascha should be studied because I’m not a school girl nor am I one to blush but for Lucas? Yes. I blush for Lucas. I really loved Lucas but I also really liked Sascha. Her struggles with hiding her emotions that were getting closer and closer to simmering right over the top with every interaction with Lucas had me hooked. I really liked learning about the different aspects of this world. The Psy’s, the Changelings, and though we don’t get very much interactions from the humans, I enjoyed learning that they were there and they shared the world with all of these gifted people and that we might get to read their stories as well.

Now if you’re new to this world, there will be some confusion as you’re learning the world and the characters but I promise, it gets better and Nalini Singh’s writing is worth pushing through. This book is a fantastic read and you’ll meet and fall in love with so many people and you’ll come to care so much about Lucas and Sascha and the set up for the rest of the books is done well, done in a way that will make you curious and want to continue on. Nalini Singh does a really good job of stringing storylines together and giving readers something to come back to.

Lucas and Sascha’s story was pretty fantastic and I definitely recommend this series to anyone looking for an interesting world to fall in to. There’s much to love in this book and Lucas and Sascha are only a small part. It’s been a lot of fun getting to know these characters and fall in love with the world as a whole so yeah, read this series!