🌟🌟🌟 BOOK REVIEW 🌟🌟🌟
Title: The Happiness Project
Author: Kirstie Pelling
Genre: Romance
My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
My Thoughts:
While I think that the story itself has a lot of potential, I just could not get into this book.
Daisy is a quirky self professed happiness guru who has had an unfortunate past - her mother died in childbirth, her father was there but not, so she pretty much raised herself. While doing so she develops superstitions that really hold her back in life. She is tired of her job (and boss) working at a hotel so she quits to become a full-time happiness expert. Her first (and only) client is a self centered actor who pays really well but she seems more like a personal assistant to him. While working with him she starts her own journey of self discovery and lands herself a Happiness column in the local paper. She has few friends in her sheltered life - Eva, her best friend, who worked with Daisy at the hotel and is now a temporary roommate - along with rent-a-dog named Doodle. And there is Joe, the coffee guy who may be her soulmate. There are lots of twists and lots of miscommunication in this book!!!
The writing style is just not for me. I thought that the story was just all over the place. There was no consistency in the pace of the book. I did enjoy the second half of the book. To me the dialog was very confusing and I often had to go back to re-read because I wasn’t sure who was speaking. I felt like this was a self-help book hidden inside a fiction novel that really seemed to drag on.
While I loved the setting, I just couldn’t relate to Daisy. How does one become a Happiness Expert when they do not know what happiness is in their own life? Daisy is very opinionated and hurtful to those closest to her although she did seem to change as the story went on.
Thank you to NetGalley, Embla Books and Kirstie Pelling for the Advanced Reader’s Copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.