A review by justagirlwithbooks
Happy Place by Emily Henry

3.75

“My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now.”

I think this is my favorite Emily Henry book that I've read. Or, it's tied with Funny Story. It's about friendship and love, and second chances. And I really loved Wyn and Harriet. The way the friend group was felt realistic because it changes as people grow up. This also reminded me of PWMOV because of the past and present timeline. 

However, there were some things that really irked me. I don't like miscommunication and I was just begging for them to just talk it out because they really did love each other, and they aren't happy in their current situations. But at the same time, I get how misunderstandings happen. Yet, they could have been easily cleared up.
And maybe it's because Harriet, unlike Emily Henry's usual protagonists, is a neurosurgeon. And she hates it. And then she ends up quitting that to become a potter? I'm sorry, that's so unrealistic. I get that you want to be with Wyn, but you didn't have to give up your career? Especially when you have super expensive loans to pay? And after studying for 10+ years? You didn't have to become a neurosurgeon, which is literally the most stressful specialty in medicine, to earn a lot of money. You could have chosen a more relaxed field. You can tell that Emily Henry is used to writing about literary professions. But go do you I guess.


Current Ranking:
  1. Happy Place
  2. Funny Story
  3. Beach Read
  4. People We Meet On Vacation
  5. Book Lovers
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