The Theory of Happily Ever After



It is very rare that I read rom-coms and "The Theory of Happily Ever After" reminded me why that is. The book is about a young woman named Maggie, who was recently dumped by her fiance, and is now having trouble getting out of the funk she has spiraled into. Her two best friends, unbeknownst to her, sign her up to speak on a singles cruise to help her snap out of her mood. Maggie is an accomplished book writer and a scientist of happiness, and now she feels unqualified to speak on happiness and the perfect life when she is far from happy and her life has spiraled out of control. Onboard the cruise ship she will be forced to break out of her shell, and maybe forgive and forget her ex, and in the process maybe just find love again.

Does that plot sound unique? The answer to that is, no. You can call from a mile away what this book is going to bring. Some adolescent like behavior is what is in store from the main character who wants to whine and wallow in the fact her life is horrible, even though she just lost a crummy man who cheated on her while she was with him. I wanted to shake Maggie a hundred times and tell her to "Woman up and get over it." Life brings us all tough breaks, but I do not suggest any of us react to those breaks like Maggie. Do not be a Maggie.

The secondary characters didn't really leave me with much of an impression. Maggie's potential love interests are the best characters in the entire book and I wish they could hop into a few of the other books I own and end up with someone worth them. Yet again, not Maggie.

Maybe I am just biased and not a fan of the genre, but I'm usually a fan of YA romance and they are filled with drama and adolescent whining, so I think it was just the characters in this book that didn't really mesh well with me. "The Theory of Happily Ever After" would not be recommended by me, but I am sure their are people out their who would love the main characters. That person just wasn't me.

*I received this book for free as part of the Baker Publishing Group Blogger Review Program, but my opinions are all my own.

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