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A review by ashley_mrose530
Happy Medium by Sarah Adler
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
This was a cute little romance book.
I enjoyed the plot a lot. It's about a woman who is pretending to be a medium. She is hired for a job that involves going to a farm to try and exorcise a ghost so they can sell it until she gets there and finds out she can actually see the ghost and the farm is cursed so that if the owner sells, he will die and be stuck there eternally.
It kept me interested right away just based on that plot. It was so interesting and different than anything I've seen before. I liked watching Gretchen struggle to try to convince Charlie that this ghost was real and there really was a curse. Also Everett, the ghost, was pretty funny in his interactions. He was fairly misogynistic, but I liked that he learned and grew from it and actually listened to Gretchen when she set boundaries.
I did like the main couple together and how they encouraged open and honest communication between them. I knew Gretchen had a lot of growing up to do right at the beginning and I'm glad that she got the chance to do that in this book and that Charlie allowed her the space for it.
The main issue I had with this book is that it told us a lot of things that really should have been shown, specifically Gretchen's emotions. She had an inner monologue that seemed to go on forever when she got going and made me zone out so often because it was things about her feelings that we could have picked up on already or would have been more impactful if they were shown to us in scene. Because of this it felt repetitive and boring at times.
I enjoyed the plot a lot. It's about a woman who is pretending to be a medium. She is hired for a job that involves going to a farm to try and exorcise a ghost so they can sell it until she gets there and finds out she can actually see the ghost and the farm is cursed so that if the owner sells, he will die and be stuck there eternally.
It kept me interested right away just based on that plot. It was so interesting and different than anything I've seen before. I liked watching Gretchen struggle to try to convince Charlie that this ghost was real and there really was a curse. Also Everett, the ghost, was pretty funny in his interactions. He was fairly misogynistic, but I liked that he learned and grew from it and actually listened to Gretchen when she set boundaries.
I did like the main couple together and how they encouraged open and honest communication between them. I knew Gretchen had a lot of growing up to do right at the beginning and I'm glad that she got the chance to do that in this book and that Charlie allowed her the space for it.
The main issue I had with this book is that it told us a lot of things that really should have been shown, specifically Gretchen's emotions. She had an inner monologue that seemed to go on forever when she got going and made me zone out so often because it was things about her feelings that we could have picked up on already or would have been more impactful if they were shown to us in scene. Because of this it felt repetitive and boring at times.