Okay chick-lit, not very special.

The story follows the Chick-lit template. Just the passion of the main character is different: making beer. But how different is that really from the homely craft of baking?

Girl with okay life accepts proposal from okay boyfriend. Aside from her hobby there is not much exciting about her life or her future, but that's okay with Jen: she likes the predictable. Then there is the meet-cute with another guy. An attractive guy that stokes her passion about beer and kisses her.

Don't need to read it to know how it will continue. Read it because it's comfy, Hygge.

After reading a number of other reviews, I feel the need to come to Jen's defence. Jen suffers from her own branch of survivor's guilt. From early on in the book the signs are there: she feels guilty that she had to make the descision to amputate her sister's leg and she wants to make sure nothing bad ever happens to her sister again. Not because she's a selfish controlfreak, but because she loves her sister. Her aim is to make sure her sister is happy, not to make herself happy. That she smothers her sister in the process is a concequence and if Lydia is so self-asured, why did she not speak up about the smothering sooner, but rather delve into all kinds of extreme sports? (She didn't tell Jen about them, so obviously was not out to prove a point to Jen.)

I read a copy of this book through Netgalley.