Happy Place

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Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. I couldn't pull away from this book and can't wait to read Beach Read (which has been on my list since last year) very soon. Overall, this is an inspirational novel about self-growth, friendship, growing up, changing, grief, and mental illness. but it was 400 pages long and when she’s being annoying for 350 of them, “occasionally” doesn’t cut it. i think this book had a lot of potential, but i’m not the biggest fan of the way it was executed—hence my conflicting feelings.

Both, Harriet and Wyn made a lot of assumptions instead of actually talk to each other, which could have spared us from a 400 pages book. Harriet goes off on her summer vacation to meet up with her best friends for a week at their 'happy place'.

i am constantly overwhelmed with how she can take the most deepest inner emotions of a person and articulate it in a way that is so relatable it makes the reader feel seen.

Or perhaps like I was in the middle of a friend group which I wasn't part of and it made me feel uncomfortable, (I've felt like that in the past, in many friend groups, and it feels awful) and if EH's point was to make me feel like I belonged with them, well, it didn't work out. the past chapters are shown to be harriet’s “ happy place” which is when her time is spent at a cottage in maine — an annual trip she takes with her boyfriend and best friends. It was more depressing than anything because it was less romance and more the trials and tribulations of being an adult. The tension between preserving the past/tradition and moving forward to new experiences is well explored, as well as the extent to which someone should compromise within their relationship. harriet and wyn are so different from each other—yet so similar, this is why they instantly connected with one another.The plot was well constructed, the reader was as much in the dark about what had really caused the break up as Harriet was and that felt very true to life. I was afraid they’d ask me what went wrong, and no matter what answer I cobbled together from the rubble, they’d see right through it.

His flaws were pretty light and at times it was difficult to see what drew him and Harriet together. This book was such a lovely read and pulled at my heartstrings, broke my heart and put it together again through the course of the story. and you're a dork for thinking anything else, even if the genre does have the words ROM and COM in it. i was falling asleep because i felt like i’ve already read this 100000000 times in harry’s internal monologue. i’m sure i forgot something and i’ll definitely come update this but at the end of it i do still love emily henry as an author and i will continue to read whatever she publishes.Things get sticky when it’s time for the communal annual holiday with her friends from university but Harriet’s ready to tell them. or did their worst fears get in the way of truly unpacking it and instead just tried to bandage it up as quickly as possible to appease one another? I'm not the brilliant doctor my parents wanted me to be, and I'm not the person who could give Wyn the happiness he deserves, and I'm not the friend Sabrina and Cleo needed.