A review by kayetaz
The Happy List by Briar Prescott

lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

3.2 ⭐️
Spice: 🌶️.5/5
Format: audiobook
Narration: 🎤🎤/5

This started out cute and promising, but then just kinda lost me around the 50% mark.

First of all, I did enjoy the premise of this book. Friends to lovers isn’t one of my top tropes but I liked the idea of the happy list along with the forced proximity and the queer awakening/mmc realizing their feelings weren’t actually platonic.

And I really liked Gray and Kai’s friendship and banter, but I feel like as soon as they got together it all disappeared and then they didn’t know how to be around each other anymore. And then the book just kinda dragged from there and felt unnecessarily long.

And, sorry, but the fake Boston accent from the one narrator actually made me irrationally angry at all times.

Just overall a miss for me, unfortunately.