Book info

• Title Happily Ever After
• Author Harriet Evans
• Year 2012
• Genre Romance

The past catches up with you no matter how far you try to run... This is a story of a girl who doesn’t believe in happy endings. Or happy families. It’s the story of Eleanor Bee, a shy, book-loving girl who vows to turn herself into someone bright, shiny and confident, someone sophisticated. Someone who knows how life works. But life has a funny way of catching us unawares. Turns out that Elle doesn’t know everything about love. Or life. Or how to keep the ones we love safe...

Thoughts

This was an ok rom-com, but it didn’t grab me as much as I’d hoped - mostly because the main characters weren’t really that likeable and I’m not sure they had a huge redemption arc as they probably needed. I’m torn by the big time jumps as well, on the one hand it’s fun to dip in and out of a life like that, but on the other hand, it meant the events felt quite remote and as though they didn’t really connect in the same way they might otherwise. Ok but not a favourite.

Rating: 2 / 5