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Happy Place by Emily Henry

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ect625's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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bek_p87's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

This was a well-written, emotive romance. I enjoyed it, but found it annoying how many misunderstandings and clashes could've been avoided by people simply communicating their wants and needs.

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katiedalton's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Cute, lighthearted, rom com with a sitcom cast of characters.

The cast is in their final season where they no longer are living in college or all together in the same city - very HIMYM and are together for one last hurrah. They all in their own right need therapy, and communication skills but are still a fair representation of most humans.

I love a “fake dating” trope, and this was interesting as the 2 had been dating up until very recently.

I enjoyed the book it was cute and fun. And at the end there was some true communication between all parties.

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1izreads's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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randirush's review against another edition

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emotional funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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annakh16's review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

Not bad, but not as great as I’d been told it was.

I found it hard to root for the romance at the beginning, because we don’t actually know much about their relationship/why they broke up for quite some time, so any (sexual) tension e.g.

the cellar scene

just seemed a bit random. Relatedly, @Harriet:

”vengeful grinding” isn’t sexy, it’s weird! He broke up with you! Pls stop!

Chapter 23 i.e.

Harriet and Wyn at Harriet’s home

was a turning point. It was great, and so were the chapters after that - emotional explorations of their break up,

mental health struggles, grief, pressure from your family

etc. Absolutely had me hooked.

But the ending kind of let me down again. The way I was screaming

”no girl, pls don’t start a pottery job! Please don’t make the first thing we see you enjoy your new destiny!“

- it just became cliche, but not in a good way. I also didn’t like how

Chloe’s pregnancy kind of became the main reason for her & Sabrina drifting apart. I thought the original argument was way more interesting

The side characters were likeable. The writing was generally good, aside from the “I said - he said” repetitions in dialogue. Whelan’s audio narration was great. Overall, I feel like I might’ve liked this more if I’d related to the characters’ personal struggles - but this way, it ended up just being a bit boring.

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