Happy Place

For almost a decade now Harriet and her group of friends go on vacation together. This one week they spent at a cottage every summer is Harriet’s happy place. Or at least it used to be, but things have changed. Her and her ex fiancé Wyn, who is also a part of the group, broke up five months ago but non of their friends know about that.

Since it is going to be the last vacatioin ever they are going to spent at the cottage, they decide to act as if still happy together. Despite all her anger and pain Harriet finds herself longing for Wyn’s nearness and even Wyn, the one who ended things between them, seems to have a hard time seeing her seemingly happy.

Sudedenly everything is uncertain again and Harriet and Wyn have to figure out if against all odds they still have it in themselves to make eachother happy.

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I really liked this book! The story is kind of bittersweet… Seing Harriet and Wyn seperated, unhappy but still drawn to eachother, while reading about their first encounter and how they fell in love with eachother more and more is heartbreaking in a way (I did not cry though! Okay okay I kind of did, but only once!).

I really like Harriet and Wyn! They are both well aware of their flaws and love eachother more than everything. I loved reading how they figured out what they need in life to be happy.

The book is really well written, not as funny as „Book Lovers“ though. The stile of story telling is similar to the one in „People we meet on vacation„, there is always a chapter set in the present followed by one set in the past and so on.

One of the best things about the book, in my opinion, is that it teaches you that your own happiness should always be your top priority and that you can not influence an others person’s happiness. Life’s going its own way and we have to accept that, ways cross, ways part and maybe they cross again, what should be will be!

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Autor: Emily Henry

Titel: Happy Place

Verlag: Penguin viking

Preis: 8 £ (in England gekauft)

Seitenzahl: 388

ISBN: 978-0-241-60946-0

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsjahr: 2023

Bewertung: ⭐⭐⭐⭐