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Happy Medium

Sarah Adler

3.77 AVERAGE

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced
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needtoreadgoodbooks's review

4.75
emotional funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

A surprisingly sweet rom-com about a con artist posing as a medium who is pushed into a romance with an earnest goat farmer while trying to exorcise the handsome, TV-addict ghost on the farm. This book gets bonus points for having a working title of “I Ain’t Afraid of no Goats.” I really wasn’t expecting it to be so good — I’m not super into ghosties and the whole premise seemed too outlandish — but the characters were so well-written and their arcs so believable, I was rooting for them the entire time. Just such a light, fun read, perfect for starting your summer vacation.
emotional funny hopeful reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
slow-paced
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courtsnextchapter's review

2.0

Oof. This one was definitely not for me. I’m not into book bashing so let’s just do a likes and dislikes list.

What I liked:

✨ Everett the ghost
✨ The farm animals


What I disliked:

☔️ Very unlikeable, hypocritical, one dimensional characters. Female lead was just not a good person and the male lead was basically a piece of cardboard.
☔️ Lackluster romance and some cringe worthy spice.
☔️ So much unnecessary fluff (feels like author was trying reach a word count). There are several chapters that did not serve the plot whatsoever and could have been done away with.
☔️ What exactly was the plot? There were so many side stories and then there was also nothing going on at all.
☔️ Pages upon pages upon pages of repetitive inner monologues. Seriously, the main character didn’t have a new thought in her head until 300 pages in.
☔️ The ending was meh. Satisfying enough but not worth reading the whole book for.


After semi-enjoying Mrs. Nash’s Ashes, this was a huge disappointment. Yikes.

Ate and left no crumbs, Sarah did it again folks. Shout out to Sarah for listening to my live reading updates

beatrizvrm's review

3.5
lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lgrzy's review

3.75
funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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kokobo63's review

5.0
hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-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