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A review by khloud96
Happy Place by Emily Henry
3.0
This was not a very happy read for me.
I read someone’s review here where they wrote “ it felt like an inside jock I didn’t understand, and setting awkwardly out of place with a group of friends I’m not a part of”
Which is true.
The group felt like the main characters not side characters. The book focused too much on them and honestly I did not care about any of them. The spoiled bratty girl who wants to throw herself a wedding with her friends in their happy place, the cliche of “lesbians living in a farm” and I don’t think it’s a cliche but it felt like one for some reason it’s so random for a 20 something girls to own a farm of all business honestly.
As for the main story between Harret and Wyn, i actually liked the story. I wished that the story started with their past without including their future. Their past relationship was packed with events that should of been explored MORE.
I’m not a writer, but the book should’ve only been about how they met, how long it took them to be in a public relationship, then how their relationship unfolds through the years with the turbulences they go through. Explaining Wyn’s feelings more toward Harret’s job and how he felt out of place from her place and how he feels little and not enough while being with her and how he is discovering himself. After the breakup, he discovers himself outside of Harret, until he decide’s he enjoys that version of himself more and the book ends with mutual respect and heartbreaking separation because that’s LIFE. Not everyone gets a happy ending in a relationship but at least they get a happy ending with discovering their true selves.
That would’ve been a fantastic read to me at least.
I read someone’s review here where they wrote “ it felt like an inside jock I didn’t understand, and setting awkwardly out of place with a group of friends I’m not a part of”
Which is true.
The group felt like the main characters not side characters. The book focused too much on them and honestly I did not care about any of them. The spoiled bratty girl who wants to throw herself a wedding with her friends in their happy place, the cliche of “lesbians living in a farm” and I don’t think it’s a cliche but it felt like one for some reason it’s so random for a 20 something girls to own a farm of all business honestly.
As for the main story between Harret and Wyn, i actually liked the story. I wished that the story started with their past without including their future. Their past relationship was packed with events that should of been explored MORE.
I’m not a writer, but the book should’ve only been about how they met, how long it took them to be in a public relationship, then how their relationship unfolds through the years with the turbulences they go through. Explaining Wyn’s feelings more toward Harret’s job and how he felt out of place from her place and how he feels little and not enough while being with her and how he is discovering himself. After the breakup, he discovers himself outside of Harret, until he decide’s he enjoys that version of himself more and the book ends with mutual respect and heartbreaking separation because that’s LIFE. Not everyone gets a happy ending in a relationship but at least they get a happy ending with discovering their true selves.
That would’ve been a fantastic read to me at least.