I will start off this review by saying that I don’t love multiple timelines so between that and the plot, I think I enjoyed the experience of reading Book Lovers more. BUT the themes of Happy Place were really hard hitting and I’ll be thinking about this one for awhile. I did not expect Happy Place to be as heavy as it was. This was about breaking generational cycles and wow it was a big “ooof” for me to read a lot of the time. I kinda struggled to pick it up at times because I really related to a lot of the struggles both characters dealt with. Happy Place was such a slow burn and it was agonizing to watch Harriet and Wyn be hurt and hurt each other and make up and miss each other and not talk and then talk and not talk again. But it felt very realistic. In a lot of ways this really isn’t a romance. It’s a family growing apart and making mistakes and and growing back together by putting work in. And that’s hard but beautiful.