I had read Jennifer E. Smith’s novel ‘The Statistical probability of love at first sight,’ and would rate it as something to do while passing the time. ‘This is what happy looks like’ is her new novel, which was once again something that passed the time, but in a pleasant way. It was a good book, but nothing too life altering, but most books aren’t. The great thing about this book though, which makes it stand out from other novels, is that Smith is able to take a completely unbelievable and unrealistic coincidence and turn it into something that you can believe to be real.
Set in the summer holidays, seemingly ordinary girl, Ellie O’Neill’s small town in Maine is the location of a movie, where star and heart-throb, Graham Larkin, is starring. But the two know each other, but not in a way that is conventional because they don’t actually know the identity of the other. It all starts with Graham sending an email to the wrong person and a friendship and feelings blossomed from their emailing.
“Hey, we’re running pretty behind here. Any chance you could walk Wilbur for me tonight?”
“I think you have the wrong email address. But since I’m a dog owner too, and I don’t want Wilbur to be stranded, I thought I’d write back and let you know…”
But now, being in the same town, they finally meet and discovering that her pen-pal is actually incredibly famous, their relationship becomes even more complicated, with having to cope with the horribly nosy paparazzi's and Ellie’s relationship with her mother and absent father.
Like I said, the chances are so incredibly unbelievable, yet you believe it. And we are able to see through this novel, that the famous are really just ordinary people who just happen to have a face that everyone knows.
The novel is peppered with sweet little lines, and is a nice summer read (even though I read it in winter)
6/10
Set in the summer holidays, seemingly ordinary girl, Ellie O’Neill’s small town in Maine is the location of a movie, where star and heart-throb, Graham Larkin, is starring. But the two know each other, but not in a way that is conventional because they don’t actually know the identity of the other. It all starts with Graham sending an email to the wrong person and a friendship and feelings blossomed from their emailing.
“Hey, we’re running pretty behind here. Any chance you could walk Wilbur for me tonight?”
“I think you have the wrong email address. But since I’m a dog owner too, and I don’t want Wilbur to be stranded, I thought I’d write back and let you know…”
But now, being in the same town, they finally meet and discovering that her pen-pal is actually incredibly famous, their relationship becomes even more complicated, with having to cope with the horribly nosy paparazzi's and Ellie’s relationship with her mother and absent father.
Like I said, the chances are so incredibly unbelievable, yet you believe it. And we are able to see through this novel, that the famous are really just ordinary people who just happen to have a face that everyone knows.
The novel is peppered with sweet little lines, and is a nice summer read (even though I read it in winter)
6/10
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