Happy Place

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My enjoyment of Emily Henry's novels is hardly a secret and so I was excited to receive the opportunity to read her new novel 'Happy Place', coming out April 2023. However, this year they are lying through their teeth as they broke up SIX months ago and still haven't told anyone! If it was possible to stop loving you, I would have managed it in that first year of desperately trying to. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. As someone who graduated college a few years ago, has felt the sadness of friends moving away and drifting apart, and looked back on my own happy place moments that feel too far in the past, this book HIT.

In other words, you’ll either *love it and hate it at the same time* or just feel apathetic towards it. I knew I'd hate Sabrina from the start, tbf I expected her to announce there'll be a double wedding 😭 so her going behind their backs didn't faze me at all. her love towards her friends, her thoughts about herself, her conflicting emotions towards her family, even down to her thoughts about her job made me feel so seen.I also felt nothing, nor empathy, sadness, pity or whatever towards any of these characters or their problems and relationships. and i’m convinced harry has some kind of coke problem we don’t know about because NO ONE SNIFFS THAT MUCH. Harriet is adamant about telling them at their special union in Happy Place, but she realizes that Sabrina already invited Wyn to their cottage, and Wyn acts like they're still together.

You're not only dumb (he failed gen ed math, whatever that means) but you also collect other people's trash? I had so many good things to say about her at the start but it all got cancelled out by her stupidity. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. and you're a dork for thinking anything else, even if the genre does have the words ROM and COM in it.i sit on the edge of the bed, feeling the loneliness swell, not knowing whether it's pressing against me from the outside or growing from within.

Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls.but it was 400 pages long and when she’s being annoying for 350 of them, “occasionally” doesn’t cut it.

Overall, this is an inspirational novel about self-growth, friendship, growing up, changing, grief, and mental illness. The found family aspect represented belonging in a way that I think we all want to experience, with people who just know and accept you at your core. It felt very much like when you go on holiday and you fall in love with the weather, the people, the sights and sounds. That doesn't mean they're perfect, but they put in the work to keep their friendships in a solid place.Millions of thanks to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for sharing 2023's most anticipated book's digital copy with me in exchange for my honest review! Harriet is invited to her Happy Place, where she has spent her most meaningful, unforgettable, sentimental moments with her best friends Sabrina, a hotshot lawyer, and Cleo, an aspiring farmer. For exemple, how adulthood can dig an abyss between longtime friends; how lies and secrets can break trust and finally, how resentment and an avid want of money might wreck a family. preface: i rated this book on a completely different scale from emily henry’s other books or romance books in general. Harriet goes off on her summer vacation to meet up with her best friends for a week at their 'happy place'.