A review by documentno_is
Happy Place by Emily Henry

hopeful sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

Probably her best novel, happy place gives me everything I love about reading an Emily Henry novel with less of the grating millennial banter and giant plot holes. I think the selling point of this novel was the genuine love and heartbreak these characters experienced trying to love each other in the “right” way.

I almost wish they hadn’t ended up together because their genuine assessment of their inabilities to be what each other needed was more poignant than any “we’ll make it work” platitudes could carry.