A review by entirelybonkerz
The Happy Ever After Playlist by Abby Jimenez

3.0

I have stated before how much I love Abbie's writing. I started reading her because of her nomination to the goodreads awards and I was thoroughly impressed. Both books I've read were so lovely, no five stars or anything, nothing mind blowing but a solid, well-written, well paced, well edited read.

Until this one.

A lot of people told me this was her best one yet...

Maybe it's me? I might be the problem in this situation, but I fell in love with a celebrity is my most hated trope in the world.

I can't see the appeal, the connections, there is a stupid power-play and the gaps in their lives are very unrealistic. It's very different than: country girl falls for city boy or vice-versa.

This is: billionaire world-known musician falls for lonely woman who JUST BECAME a widow, and he puts her through hell just so she can adjust to HIS lifestyle and only hurts her more in the process.

I hated both characters, disliked the way they handled their lives, their relationships and there were SO many miscommunication scenes in this that it gave me a migraine.

I couldn't see eye to eye with anything they said or did, I did not want to cheer for them as a couple because it became really obvious this woman needed more time to heal, and she just immediately attached herself to this random guy because she was lonely and grieving and he didn't care for her the way I thought she deserved/ or in the way I thought that he should.

So yeah, we can't love every single book an author writes and that's ok. This one was definitely not for me. It is still very well-written, well rounded and all of that jazz, but it couldn't save how much I personally disliked the characters and the plot.