Happy Place – Book Review

Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple – they go together like bread and butter, gin and tonic, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. Except, now they don’t.

They broke up six months ago. And they still haven’t told anyone.

Which is how they end up sharing a bedroom at the cottage that has been their yearly getaway with their best friends for the past decade. For one glorious week they leave behind their lives, drink far too much wine and soak up the sea air with their favourite people.

Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth. The cottage is for sale so this is the last time they’ll all be together here and they can’t bear to break their friends’ hearts. So, they’ll fake it for one more week.

It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses).

But how can you pretend to be in love with someone – and get away with it – in front of the people who know you best?

Brimming with characters you can’t help but fall for and off-the-charts chemistry, HAPPY PLACE is Emily Henry’s best novel yet.

So…book tok and bookstagram made me read Emily Henry’s books. While I didn’t enjoy Beach Reads much, and currently reading Book Lovers (which in my opinion so far is not really good), Happy Place seem to be her best novel written.

Meet Harriet and Wyn, the perfect couple like Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. But six months ago, Harriet and Wyn broke up but they didn’t mention their breakup to their friends or anyone. So when Harriet and Wyn meet with their friends, Sabrina, Parth, Cleo and Kimmy for an annual get together, they pretend that they are a couple still. But the bad new is? The cottage which is owned by Sabrina’s father is up for sale, so this might be the last vacation the friends are spending together. Good news? Sabrina and Parth are getting married.

This book mainly talks about friendship and dealing with break-ups. Surprisingly, I actually enjoyed reading the book. The books goes back and forth between the past, when Harriet met Wyn for the first time in college and present when Harriet and Wyn pretend to be a couple in front of their friends. Harriet is a resident doctor and the book was realistic and portrayed well on how Harriet’s and Wyn’s relationship strained after Wyn’s father Hand died. While I actually enjoyed reading this book, I do applaud for Harriet to leave behind her residency in the hospital but then I don’t understand why she chose to do pottery. This book talks a lot about second chances and there were some parts in the book that were emotional too.

Overall this book worth four stars!