manifesting someone to love

Finding love isn’t easy anywhere, but Jane is finding that it’s especially difficult in New York City. She moved there to go to NYU and stayed on to be a playwright. Now she’s 24 and tired of dating around. She wants to find someone special, but using dating apps just isn’t getting her where she wants to be.

And then she matches with Colin.

Colin had messaged her about her nerdy comment about the Oxford comma, so Jane knew right away that he was a keeper. He showed up for their first date, and they had a really good time. He hadn’t even tried to kiss her on that first date. It wasn’t until their sixth date, a magical evening at the Botanical Gardens, that they’d spent the night together. And that was when Jane knew she’d found someone she could spend the rest of her life with. And it was the next day that Colin dumped her.

Jane didn’t want to believe that it was over, so she tried to bump into him again. She took dates to the bar where they had gone, hoping to see him and find out what had happened. And it worked. Jane was out with a date, and she saw him. And she saw her. His date was tall and willowy with long chestnut hair. She seemed perfect. So Jane did the only thing she could do. She stalked her online until she found her.

Zoe was an Instagram influencer, popular for her inspirational videos encouraging her followers to manifest what they want. Jane starts following and saying her own mantra to manifest the future she wants for herself (with Colin). Zoe notices her and invites her to Colin’s birthday party. Jane is confused about that until she realizes that Colin had lied to Zoe about they knew each other and said that he knew Jane from college, even though he had gone to Penn State. Jane plays along though and ends up at Colin’s birthday party. She ends up hooking up with his roommate Ben that night, figuring that would be an easy way to stay in Colin’s orbit until he could figure out that she was the one he wanted to be with.

But as the weeks go by, and Zoe befriends her, Jane feels like she has a true friend for the first time in a long time, maybe her whole life. But she still feels a connection to Colin and thinks they will ultimately end up together. But when Jane learns about some sketchy things in Colin’s past, Jane is faced with a decision. How far will she go to protect him? And how far will she need to go to protect herself?

So Happy Together is a twisty thriller about the secrets we try to bury and what we have to go through to keep buried. It’s about obsession and love, and all the choices that go into staying true to the dream you are trying to manifest. But really, it’s just bonkers, filled with twists and new stories and lies and betrayals that make your head spin after a while. But mostly it’s one of the most entertaining thrillers I’ve read in some time, so if that’s what you’re into, then you are in the right place.

I listened to the audio book of So Happy Together, narrated to perfection by Michelle H. Lee. She embodies Jane and her insecurities as well as Zoe and her influencing, and all their hidden agendas and secrets. There is a lot happening in this story, and it could have been difficult to keep it all straight, but I felt like Lee’s confidence with the story kept me on track, so stayed with her through every scene. I raced through this audio book in one day, because I just had to know how we got from that crazy beginning to the end, and I was not disappointed. This book is a fireball, and the audio brings it all to life.

Egalleys for So Happy Together were provided by Minotaur Books, and a copy of the audio book was provided by Macmillan Audio, both through NetGalley, with many thanks, but the opinions are mine.