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A review by oosij
Happy Place by Emily Henry
2.0
not my favorite emily henry read. i'm so sorry if you loved this book, but i personally... did not. a lot of it felt very surface-level: the friendship between the three women, the location/setting, the characters in general. everyone is horrible with communication despite the main couple being together for years and the friend group supposedly being airtight since college; i absolutely despise the miscommunication/lack of communication trope in stories, so this was just not it for me lmao.
also for a solid chunk in the beginning, i couldn't tell the characters apart because they all seemed so similar to each other... which is probably why i was so confused at the "big" conflict near the end - i get the miscommunication should have ended up bubbling over like it did, but it still felt so out of left field for it to be dramatic. maybe i read too quickly and missed the too-subtle hints? (eg, "you set the date" and sab's Look™️)
also for a solid chunk in the beginning, i couldn't tell the characters apart because they all seemed so similar to each other... which is probably why i was so confused at the "big" conflict near the end - i get the miscommunication should have ended up bubbling over like it did, but it still felt so out of left field for it to be dramatic. maybe i read too quickly and missed the too-subtle hints? (eg, "you set the date" and sab's Look™️)