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A review by ennitsud
This Is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith
3.0
honestly, i expected a bit more out of this book but nevertheless, i still liked it.
i can see where some might say were odd like the way the parent issues were issued over a single conversation, the media problem settled in the same day, and the dating a celebrity despite your own back story worked out. still, i think it had its charms. there might not have been much resolving in the story but you see something in the characters.
graham finds happiness in the fame life that seemed to have robbed him of normality. he found ellie by coincidence and he even found a place he felt happy in, free in, unlike his home in middle-of-everything, california with his pet wilbur.
ellie was able to come to terms with her father. i know it wasn't in the best way and maybe her mom didn't make it any better by saying she didn't need to be in touch to know, but ellie found a way to get over it. a character doesn't exactly have to fully resolve that issue; they could hang on the bridge and watch the water flow and see what happens.
finally, the simplicity of it was probably the key to my liking it. i'm a very simple minded person at times and the fact that it was easy to go along with the story made the cut for me. we knew the problems, we knew we wanted them to fix it, and they somewhat did, eventually. i guess what i'm really looking for is an epilogue. like what happened after he left and she went to harvard? how did her dad react to seeing her face? what about harry, how'd he flip the issue around? and olivia, was she really okay with how everything turned out? i'm honestly curious.
i can see where some might say were odd like the way the parent issues were issued over a single conversation, the media problem settled in the same day, and the dating a celebrity despite your own back story worked out. still, i think it had its charms. there might not have been much resolving in the story but you see something in the characters.
graham finds happiness in the fame life that seemed to have robbed him of normality. he found ellie by coincidence and he even found a place he felt happy in, free in, unlike his home in middle-of-everything, california with his pet wilbur.
ellie was able to come to terms with her father. i know it wasn't in the best way and maybe her mom didn't make it any better by saying she didn't need to be in touch to know, but ellie found a way to get over it. a character doesn't exactly have to fully resolve that issue; they could hang on the bridge and watch the water flow and see what happens.
finally, the simplicity of it was probably the key to my liking it. i'm a very simple minded person at times and the fact that it was easy to go along with the story made the cut for me. we knew the problems, we knew we wanted them to fix it, and they somewhat did, eventually. i guess what i'm really looking for is an epilogue. like what happened after he left and she went to harvard? how did her dad react to seeing her face? what about harry, how'd he flip the issue around? and olivia, was she really okay with how everything turned out? i'm honestly curious.