Happy Place by Emily Henry

Happy Place Happy Place by Emily Henry
My rating: 1 of 5 stars






Um. Nope. This book, the characters and the story all enraged šŸ¤¬ me.

I wanted to love this book - I have loved everything else Emily Henry has written. Huge fan. Wish I could write like they do.

I think this is the lowest stars I have given a book I have finished.

I get why someone would like it, I think. I mean EH is an incredible writer and all of the basics are there. Characters, dialogue, a universe. I liked the coverā€¦šŸ˜‚
I love Maine šŸ¦ž and šŸ–¤ the Stephen King references.

I usually love a troubled-by-awful-parents and rising-from-the-ashes-of-a-dumpster-fire childhood story. And it is NOT that in the end the MCā€™s made the choices they did. They honestly could have made any choices by the time I was in the last 10% because I just wanted to know what happens and I just wanted the book to be over.

Basically, if I wanted to listed to whining and waste my time, I would have a conversation with an over-privileged teenager. 

It reminded me of the 80ā€™s hit movie The Big Chill. Everyone thought it was so great - probably because of the angst and the soundtrack. But I always felt it was a movie about a bunch of self centered a$$hole$ that had the world handed to them and brought nothing to it in return.

This book was the 2020ā€™s version of that. Without the soundtrack.

And the intimacy scenes - šŸ™„- a series of hurried drunken fumblings before the MCā€™s realized they have problems - which are not really problems at all - and justā€¦.not a fan of this book.

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