BOOK LOVERS (Emily Henry) - March 24/24

 Picked this up after I had to stop reading The Grapes of Wrath, this features an inventive premise and several very agreeable characters. But it’s overwritten to an absurd degree, as the story just drags and drags as Henry places her protagonists into one episodic, extensively described scenario after another. And the sex stuff is written with all the subtlety of a Harlequin novel. It’s fine, is the bottom line, but it should’ve been better. **1/2 out of ****