i really wanted this to be a book i would feel so connected to, and would always stay with me, but it’s not one of those books. whenever we got a glimpse into how wyn felt about harry, it almost always felt very generic and there wasn’t anything that special or swoon worthy about it. Overall, this is an inspirational novel about self-growth, friendship, growing up, changing, grief, and mental illness. Except this year, they are lying through their teeth, because Harriet and Wyn broke up six months ago. 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.

do i think her adult romances are often pale comparisons, in terms of their friendships and relationships and character depth and even humor and reality and emotion, to those books? The friendships, the heartbreak, and how Emily Henry perfectly encapsulates that bitter-sweet feeling of growing up made my heart hurt. Me gusta que este libro además del romance trata de cómo ella crece como persona y encuentra lo que le hace feliz pero también lo que no la hace feliz y aprende a soltarlo.My best friends taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don’t need to fill the space. The novel opens with our narrator, Harriet Kilpatrick, en route to her annual week-long excursion to fictional Knott's Harbor, Maine for their Lobster Fest. 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.

I can’t figure out whether this is a feeling specific to her books alone or the feeling you get when you are reading a story that’s about to become your favourite. También vemos cómo Harriet conoce a Sabrina y Cleo, luego a Wyn y, como se vuelven los mejores amigos y cómo pasan una década juntos volviéndose como una familia.Trust Emily Henry to take the fake dating trope to another level with the messy complex history these two share and the spiralling lies. It’s been growing there for a while, this new room in my heart, this space just for Wyn that I carry with me everywhere I go.

It’s made even more difficult by their friends seemingly conspiring to throw them together constantly. 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. she puts other peoples needs and feelings before her own to keep the peace, the way she has an inability to show others her emotions, especially during the break up bc she fears she will be a burden really hit close to home. Which is how they find themselves sharing a bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Real Life’ felt as good as only real life can feel: not enough, bleak, where you find yourself drowning without even realising it, not knowing how you got there and with just enough happy moments felt in between to keep going.Harriet is a person who doesn't know how to fight, hates conflicts, and tries to please everyone around her. Mientras leía no podía dejar de pensar que quería que tuvieran su final feliz porque lo merecían muchísimo. Like, are you going to tell me that after a long-ass relationship of 8 YEARS, neither of you can communicate things?

It was an overall sad read, focusing on friendships drifting apart, parents getting old/dying, and failed expectations (imposed mainly by self doubt and pressure from friends and family). The woman doesn't miss' TAYLOR JENKINS REID, Daisy Jones and the Six'One of my favourite authors' Colleen Hoover, It Ends With Us-----Two exes. The ‘Happy Place’ chapters felt like I was visiting a really happy and safe place, happy moments that these characters experienced where everything felt right in the world. For exemple, how adulthood can dig an abyss between longtime friends; how lies and secrets can break trust and finally, how resentment and an avid want of money might wreck a family.harriet and wyn are so different from each other—yet so similar, this is why they instantly connected with one another. Let me start out by saying I think Emily Henry is an absolute poet, she is nothing short of a master at her craft and this book is probably some of her best writing so far. does that make me miss the golden age of my life during which she was writing about both and also magic and also realism and also YA? i enjoyed him more at the beginning when they were younger and everything was fresh between them, but this didn’t translate the whole way through. I’ve memorized the rhythm of his breathing when he sleeps and the smell of his skin when he’s been out in the sun.