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Happy Place by Emily Henry

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kbowles24's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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amesgeliebter's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Like even when something beautiful breaks, the making of it still matters.

Listen. I love Emily Henry and this book did not disappoint. I don’t know how a story about a couple going through a breakup made me pine for a relationship, but here I am. May we all have friends like Harriet’s and may we all find our own Wyn. Our own happy place.

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kailiyahknight's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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klandry98's review against another edition

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emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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bookedbymadeline's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted relaxing sad fast-paced

Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I love the banter and tension!! The chemistry between Wyn and Harriet was 🥵

I related to both Wyn and Harriet a lot of times! I loved all the characters, getting to know them and watch them grow through the novel. I laughed, smiled, and cried but I think this is the first of Henry’s (so far) that’ll be rated under 5 stars 🙊

Around the 230 page mark I was so sick of the lack of communication!! This is essentially down to miscommunication being a main plot pointm, which I didn’t mind at first but eventually got so annoyed about it 😭

You’re in your 30s and had been together for nearly a decade!!!! YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO TALK FOR 5 MINUTES AND HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS?! I understood to an extent given their characters backgrounds but still if you’re dating and ENGAGED to someone for that long, you should be able to communicate and share your feelings and if you can’t then maybe you shouldn’t be together 😫

By the end, I kind of understood the miscommunication, given the background and character traits of both Harriet and Wyn. Also I think it frustrated me so much because I recognized myself and my past issues in their issues. I also liked the author reader guide to explain the choices because then it made more sense but I was still annoyed and think it went on longer than it should’ve.

I didn’t cry at the end like I normally do, I still marked a lot of passages and loved the characters but I didn’t have the same emotions quite like the other books I’ve read so far 😞 It was fun and easy to read with top tier banter as always but because of the miscommunication (that lasted waaay too long) it’s going to rank last for now.

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eligru's review against another edition

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emotional funny inspiring medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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micaelamariem's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional inspiring medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This was such a heartwarming book. I love the theme, an important life lesson of letting yourself be vulnerable to the people you love. The travel aspect I always love and I’m a sucker for a found family.

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ohtoasty's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.25

I liked Emily Henry's Book Lovers and found People We Meet on Vacation okay. I was hoping that Happy Place was going to be more like Book Lovers, but I found it feel more flat. I think the miscommunication trope is difficult for me to get into because I often largely (maybe falsely) believe that couples will talk to each other more than what books want us to believe.

The plot of this book centers on the idea

that Wyn was depressed in San Francisco, he moved away from a large support system, and financially seemed to be struggling. Somehow, Harriet was able to support the apartment by herself, so I'm not quite sure why Wyn was working so incredibly hard, but I think we are suppose to ignore that factor. Wyn then goes home for a period of time to take care of his mother who has cancer. Harriet, trying to be easy going for him because he's struggling so much, tries to make everything easier when he tries to visit her but fails. Once he gets into a car accident. Once his mom fell. He couldn't make it back to San Fran. She said it was okay. He took that as not caring? I guess. They aren't talking on the phone as much either which doesn't help. She is actively trying to be a surgeon. Eventually after a night out, Harriet has a guy walk her home as a friend, and he kisses her. She rejects him immediately, runs and calls Wyn. He pauses for a moment, suggests they break up. She is floored and confused. The next day he sends her a box of stuff that he had (not sure why he had it in Montana, but I guess we are ignoring that too). She sends a box of his stuff, annoyed. She wants to call him multiple times in the months, but doesn't. Because of her hurt feelings she blocks his number.

Harriet doesn't tell their mutual friends for months. She can't bring herself too. Wyn and Harriet decided in the breakup that they would take every other summer for the friend vacation, so she will tell their friend group about the break up at the friend vacation. (Emily Henry is obsessed with vacations?) She gets there, and Wyn is there. She is confused why he is acting like they are still dating, and it turns out that her friend Sabrina is engaged, to be married at the end of the week. Harriet and Wyn decide to pretend to still be together to make the week go smoothly. Wyn sometimes acts friendly and loving to her, but in private sometimes blows her off. She tries to purposefully flirt with him, make him "suffer" and it has mixed outcomes.

Eventually, Harriet discovers that Sabrina and Parth knew Wyn and her had broken up. It seemed like the entire week was a big plot to get them back together. Harriet is understandably incredibly angry over this, because of how painful the entire experience had been. Sabrina very clearly has tramua over her own broken family, and was trying to make sure the friend group would remain close by forcing them to consider getting back together. Incredibly manipulative in my opinion and not a very good friend. Even after Sabrina explains it, she disappears and was not able to be found for most of the following day, making everyone have to go looking for her. She apologizes but I still found her character very frustrating overall. I found the lesbians much more enjoyable. Cleo was ready to give it when she needed to, Kimmy was very supportive of Cleo. I liked them.

Harriet finally tells Wyn all of her hard feelings. Wyn finally starts telling her some of his. They figure it out, want to get back together, completely unsure how to do so with their two different lives. Wyn now is selling thousand dollar wooden tables in Montana, and Harriet discovered shes unhappy and bad at being a surgeon (though good at being in school). He tells her not to follow him, because that made him unhappy. She does so anyway because she likes pottery I guess.

This book was frustrating. Couples of 8 years go through major shit and talk about it. They don't just fuck everytime they try to do the Sunday crossword. Their chemistry was focused

solely on how much they physically wanted each other

and that was frustrating.

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fanboyriot's review against another edition

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emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

♡ Second Chance

♡ Fake Relationship

♡ Summer Vacation

Seriously such a perfect summer read for sure. It had all the wholesome friendship vibes combined with such detailed background history. I loved the t-shirts the main character and her friends had in college, truly iconic.

The humor was 10/10, deadpan as ever and I’m here for it. The miscommunication trope did play into this book a bit and I actually didn’t mind it as much as I usually do. I liked how things worked out in the end. While there were a few sad moments this book was fairly lighthearted and enjoyable, plus it had a happy ending so that helped a lot too.

Spice Level: 🌶️🌶️🌶️ (3/5)

Angst Level: 💧 (1/5)

POV: First Person

Release Date: 25, April 2023

Rep: Lesbian (Side Characters)

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jenniferbowman's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced

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

3.5

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