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A review by gwensreading
Happy New You by Elizabeth Lynx, Cassie-Ann L. Miller, Ceri Grenelle
4.0
I received an ARC from the authors and I am happy to give my honest review.
Happy New You stars Allison and Mateo, childhood friends who reconnect at a New Years Eve party. Allison is a workaholic lawyer who aspires to make partner at her firm but overhears her boss talking negatively about her. She decides to make nine resolutions to help her become more likely to get a promotion.
Mateo is a fitness guru on Instagram and does personal training. He aspires to open his own gym and desperately needs investors. He has been in love with Allison since they were in high school and decides helping her with her resolutions will get them close together again. He even adds in his own resolution without her knowing.
There were a few things I liked about this book as well as a few things I didn’t. I liked Mateo a lot. He was grounded and realistic and knew what he wanted from life. I wasn’t a huge fan of Allison, mostly because it was too close of a reminder of myself professionally. She worked hard at her career with a single minded focus which didn’t leave any room for socializing. That is basically me in a nutshell. I didn’t agree with her decisions to put work before her relationship or the way she treated Mateo when she got embarrassed at her office.
In the end I liked them together. Allison grew a lot and became the woman who could support Mateo. She found her priorities and the means to accomplish them.
Happy New You stars Allison and Mateo, childhood friends who reconnect at a New Years Eve party. Allison is a workaholic lawyer who aspires to make partner at her firm but overhears her boss talking negatively about her. She decides to make nine resolutions to help her become more likely to get a promotion.
Mateo is a fitness guru on Instagram and does personal training. He aspires to open his own gym and desperately needs investors. He has been in love with Allison since they were in high school and decides helping her with her resolutions will get them close together again. He even adds in his own resolution without her knowing.
There were a few things I liked about this book as well as a few things I didn’t. I liked Mateo a lot. He was grounded and realistic and knew what he wanted from life. I wasn’t a huge fan of Allison, mostly because it was too close of a reminder of myself professionally. She worked hard at her career with a single minded focus which didn’t leave any room for socializing. That is basically me in a nutshell. I didn’t agree with her decisions to put work before her relationship or the way she treated Mateo when she got embarrassed at her office.
In the end I liked them together. Allison grew a lot and became the woman who could support Mateo. She found her priorities and the means to accomplish them.
One of my favorite quotes from Mateo: “You’re enough. Just the way you are. And you don’t ever have to apologize for the woman you are.”