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A review by obsidian_blue
So Happy Together by Olivia Worley
2.0
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
This was the most confusing book ever. It's mostly following a 20+ year old woman named Jane who is delusional about her 6 date "relationship" with the most basic guy ever named Colin. And we get the longest reveal ever of what sent her running from somewhere years earlier. I think that Worley was going for some twists/reveals to keep you going. But I just found myself bored repeatedly while reading. Don't get me started about the other character we mostly focus on, Zoe.
"So Happy Together" follows Jane who is stalking (there is no other word for it) her ex Colin and his current girlfriend, Zoe. Jane knows that she and Colin have a connection and is upset he dumped her. Now she's focused on showing him what he's missing. When she runs into him and Zoe, Zoe takes a liking to her and now Jane is front and center to their relationship and how she can show Colin she is perfect for him.
No, this is not "You" and even within striking distance of that book. Jane is no Joe people. Jane is just a mess and exhausting. Toss in some murders and other things the book just becomes chaotic. And then we keep getting asides to Ophelia and I have never hated a literary character so much. I just felt like this book was trying to do too many things and it didn't work out in the end. Being in Jane's head as she keeps ignoring every red flag known to man got old real quick.
Colin...for being the center of Jane's world is not interesting at all.
The ending had me going okay then and moving onto something else.
This was the most confusing book ever. It's mostly following a 20+ year old woman named Jane who is delusional about her 6 date "relationship" with the most basic guy ever named Colin. And we get the longest reveal ever of what sent her running from somewhere years earlier. I think that Worley was going for some twists/reveals to keep you going. But I just found myself bored repeatedly while reading. Don't get me started about the other character we mostly focus on, Zoe.
"So Happy Together" follows Jane who is stalking (there is no other word for it) her ex Colin and his current girlfriend, Zoe. Jane knows that she and Colin have a connection and is upset he dumped her. Now she's focused on showing him what he's missing. When she runs into him and Zoe, Zoe takes a liking to her and now Jane is front and center to their relationship and how she can show Colin she is perfect for him.
No, this is not "You" and even within striking distance of that book. Jane is no Joe people. Jane is just a mess and exhausting. Toss in some murders and other things the book just becomes chaotic. And then we keep getting asides to Ophelia and I have never hated a literary character so much. I just felt like this book was trying to do too many things and it didn't work out in the end. Being in Jane's head as she keeps ignoring every red flag known to man got old real quick.
Colin...for being the center of Jane's world is not interesting at all.
The ending had me going okay then and moving onto something else.