A review by mkw1lson
Happy Place by Emily Henry

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This book is like the adult version of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. A friend group that each have complex lives and love stories, drifting apart but coming together and finding more of a family with each other than they do with their own blood. 

Yeah, it's pretty close. I loved that though because although this is a romance, it also felt like a celebration of female friendships and that's something I'm always a big fan of.

That said, the romance was great too. I love that Emily Henry makes her lead characters innocent of any wrongdoing, I love that they are complex and need to work on themselves too. I also liked how the story went back and forth, introducing the characters during their break-up and then going back to show how the fell in love and how they got to the point of breaking up. It helped to not understand the whole story until later in the book.

Is it weird I almost didn't want them to get back together in the end? Not because I didn't want them to get there eventually, but I almost wanted an amicable split on good terms and then an epilogue where they finally got together. I still liked the ending we got, but I almost would have liked this better.

 

Overall, good book and has solidified that I need to be reading more Emily Henry books to give my brain a nice romcom breather.