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A review by graceburts
More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera
3.0
3.5 stars
Hi, so this is gonna be a mess because that’s what happens when you put off writing reviews for over two months but please bear with me. More Happy Than Not follows 16-year-old Aaron attempting to fit himself back into his life with his friends, family and girlfriend after attempting to commit suicide.
I want to start off this review by saying I love Adam Silvera with all my heart and he is the king of “almost contemporary but not exactly contemporary.” Everything he writes is impossible to put down and insanely original and completely unpredictable. He has a skill for heartbreak, and he has absolutely no fear of hurting his characters or his readers. More Happy Than Not is perfect representation of why Adam is so successful but for some reason, it fell flat for me.
I can’t think of any ways this book is terrible because it isn’t a bad book at all, the thing is though, it isn’t They Both Die at the End.
They Both Die at the End is similar to More Happy Than Not because they are both written in typical Adam Silvera gut-wrenching, addicting fashion but More Happy Than Not, while great on its own when compared to TBDATE just isn’t on the same level. It doesn’t have the characters that etch themselves on to your soul, and it doesn’t have an unthinkable theme threaded throughout it that leaves room for a million different stories.
I haven’t stop thinking about TBDATE since the moment I finished reading it, and that was my favourite thing about it, this book isn’t like that. More Happy Than Not is the kind of book you forget about right after you read it.
All this to say it was still pretty great and it’s a testament to how talented Adam Silvera is that his first book was so great and he developed so well as an author that his 3rd book is that much better.
So, if you’ve never read any Adam Silvera before I highly recommend this but for me, since I had such high expectations it kind of just fell flat.
Hi, so this is gonna be a mess because that’s what happens when you put off writing reviews for over two months but please bear with me. More Happy Than Not follows 16-year-old Aaron attempting to fit himself back into his life with his friends, family and girlfriend after attempting to commit suicide.
I want to start off this review by saying I love Adam Silvera with all my heart and he is the king of “almost contemporary but not exactly contemporary.” Everything he writes is impossible to put down and insanely original and completely unpredictable. He has a skill for heartbreak, and he has absolutely no fear of hurting his characters or his readers. More Happy Than Not is perfect representation of why Adam is so successful but for some reason, it fell flat for me.
I can’t think of any ways this book is terrible because it isn’t a bad book at all, the thing is though, it isn’t They Both Die at the End.
They Both Die at the End is similar to More Happy Than Not because they are both written in typical Adam Silvera gut-wrenching, addicting fashion but More Happy Than Not, while great on its own when compared to TBDATE just isn’t on the same level. It doesn’t have the characters that etch themselves on to your soul, and it doesn’t have an unthinkable theme threaded throughout it that leaves room for a million different stories.
I haven’t stop thinking about TBDATE since the moment I finished reading it, and that was my favourite thing about it, this book isn’t like that. More Happy Than Not is the kind of book you forget about right after you read it.
All this to say it was still pretty great and it’s a testament to how talented Adam Silvera is that his first book was so great and he developed so well as an author that his 3rd book is that much better.
So, if you’ve never read any Adam Silvera before I highly recommend this but for me, since I had such high expectations it kind of just fell flat.