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Happy Place by Emily Henry
2.0

There were soooo many things wrong with this book …

1) Harriet and Wyndham? Really? Of all the names you could pick you go with Harriet and Wyndham? Like what the actual f*ck …

2) Harriet and Wyn had absolutely no personality at all. They were both boring as dirt. The author tried to make them better with Harriet’s job and maybe a little with their backstories but when they opened their mouths there was no substance there

3) There was no substance to them because they didn’t open their mouths and speak to each other. They were together 8 years and never learned how to have a real conversation with each other. And when they finally had their “big talk” it was so incredibly stupid. It didn’t touch on anything important and they were both so self absorbed.

4) Does Montana not have hospitals? Like serious question because the way the book was written you’d think they didn’t. Okay maybe she couldn’t have been a neurosurgeon in Montana but she could have still been a doctor!

5) Both kept pitying themselves and never actually fought for their relationship. That’s so so unhealthy in my opinion. If there’s one thing I can say about my big failed relationship, it’s that I fought to find out what went wrong and didn’t just accept it.

6) The side characters were just as boring as the mains and had so many bad characteristics that came out throughout the book that I didn’t like any of them really. And the one character I could tolerate got ruined for me in the end anyway by being manipulative, even though they thought it was for the best it wasn’t cool in my book.

If this is what contemporary romance novels look like I’m gonna stick to reading about people killing each other because at least those characters have substance to them.