Happy Place

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The reality of 'real life' is drawn in a relatable way and it is easy to see why Harriet and Wyn feel like maintaining the façade of happiness is the right thing to do, even if it seems like an absurd premise.

My enjoyment of Emily Henry's novels is hardly a secret and so I was excited to receive the opportunity to read her new novel 'Happy Place', coming out April 2023.She explained gracefully how achieving your goals and purposes in life doesn’t specially rhythm with happiness. He was with sabrina for 10 years or whatever but got annoyed at her for reacting the way she did and didn't think of finding her after she was gone for the whole day? Harriet goes off on her summer vacation to meet up with her best friends for a week at their 'happy place'. But for the last trip with her friends it’s very different – she has to pretend that her relationship with Wyn isn’t over. The dual narrative of this novel, exposing the history of Harriet and Wyn alongside the present day, help us to develop an attachment to the central couple and their group of friends.

The rest of the characters were quite one dimensional though so I only half brought in to the friendship group. As someone who graduated college a few years ago, has felt the sadness of friends moving away and drifting apart, and looked back on my own happy place moments that feel too far in the past, this book HIT. wyn’s constant need to feel loved or feel like he matters, and harriet’s constant fear that she will make people around her unhappy—i feel like it will eventually crash and burn again. Henry does a really nice job of bouncing between the present week in Maine and flashbacks that let us see the evolution (and dissolution) of Harriet and Wyn's relationship.

The tension of building up to that conversation (which actually is brilliantly more than one conversation) is DIVINE, and the havoc that Henry wreaked on my emotions along the way was sinister in the best way possible. i enjoyed him more at the beginning when they were younger and everything was fresh between them, but this didn’t translate the whole way through. literally the PINING in this omg and the ANGSTTT and the pain, my poor lil heart couldn’t take it all. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Every year, they take a holiday from their lives to drink far too much wine with their favourite people in the world. It’s easy to perceive from the synopsis that this is a story or what was, what is, and what might be.Harriet me ha encantado, es una mujer fuerte e inteligente pero también alguien sensible con el corazón roto mientras intenta mantener a flote su vida como residente en un hospital y cumplir con las expectativas de su padres. However, the plume was subtly substituted in 'Happy Place' by a bitter, realistic and mature writing. Don’t get me wrong, some parts are really sweet and I did like all the characters and whilst I love a good romance, I mean who doesn’t, this was just a bit too sickly for me. With her character Emily Henry highlighted how people can be complex in such beautiful and painful ways, that their personalities can be nuanced with infinity of colores.