vee!'s Reviews > Happy Place

— 4.5 stars ✰

“before i even see him, my heart starts
singing its favorite song. you, you, you.”

who is stupid enough to think it‘s a happy fluffy book just because the book is called happy place? yeah, jokes on me, i‘m in fact stupid enough. soul crushing, heart wrenching, tear jerking, i am unwell

there is nothing more heart wrenching than flashback pov‘s 😭 you‘re telling me i have to read about them falling in love just to be heart broken in the present scenes.. the audacity emily henry has. their meet cute was indeed very cute and i knew from that moment on, that my heart is going to BREAK 🥲

“do i make you anxious?”
um yes, wyn. you do make me anxious.

i knew what was gonna come, i knew it. but nothing could've prepared me for the pain. reading about their breakup is some different kind of pain i never want to experience ever again.

forced proximity, second chance, fake dating.. full of tension and angst. there’s just something about past lovers that makes me so anxious but like in a good way you know.

“he reaches over my shoulder and shuts the door himself. his hand stays there, to the left of my head.”

— this is my last straw. EH broke me, i need someone to fix my shattered heart. how am i ever supposed to move on from wyn and harriet 🥲 i want their love, i want their respect, i want their passion. i want everything they have. laying in bed wide awake reading the book when i was supposed to go be bed hours ago.. now, do i love or hate that feeling? i certainly wasn't able to put the book down because it was so emotional and i needed closure.

second chance romances are one of my favorite tropes. it gives me all the angst and pain that i need for a book. i’m usually not a fan of flashback pov’s but EH just knew how to do it right, and this feeling of getting closer & closer to the chapter where they’re actually breaking up.. kill me right now. the miscommunication is a big part of this book, which i’m usually not a fan of, but somehow it didn’t bothered me this much here since i was actually able to understand why they acted that way. it was so realistic and this scares the shit out of me.

wyn’s and harriet’s love for each other runs so deep and i just connected with them instantly. i felt everything they felt, making me want to jump into the book to just hug them. and the fact that wyn’s love language is physical touch adds even more to the tension >>>

harriet making bargains with the universe was so fucking relatable. like you think you can promise the universe something and prevent the inevitable but of course you can’t. you can’t, and then you feel helpless and just ugh. i could feel both their heartbreak on my tongue and no matter what harriet did, she felt him slipping away and that was the most painful thing to ever read about.

“i might always be a little bit in love with wyn connor.”

this book isn’t for people who only want to read about romance, it’s also mostly about friendship and i thought it was such a beautiful aspect in this book. i see myself a lot in those characters, being scared that my friend group will fall apart since everyone is building their own life, going their own way, moving to another city. it is important to understand that not everything will stay the same, that we won’t love the same things we did a couple of years ago and that it’s okay to change. and i think EH did a wonderful job to represent that.

“in every universe, it’s you for me.
even if it’s not me for you.”

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rtc i need to recover first 🤧
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update: bye not me thinking this was gonna be a fluff romance, i think my heart will shatter lol

buddy reading with lilyya, rae and vio💗