Thank you Netgalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I went into this book and found the initial bit of the story quite slow, however upon reflection I think that was actually just my mood! I got 20% through and I didn't think I'd finish it, but I carried on and then suddenly before I realised I had absolutely FLOWN through the entire book.

I liked the character development, I liked the storyline albeit I didn't originally like the Everett inclusion, but overtime he totally grew on me, much like he did with Gretchen, smart writing! I liked how the story was unwrapping and I liked the conflict that Charlie was visibly showing throughout.

My only wish for this book is that we got to see a little more of the growth for the farm, and development of Gretchen's FRIENDSHIPS, but perhaps there's another book in the shadows?

Great read, totally kept me turning each page and I really loved the level of Sass written into it.

I absolutely loved Sarah Adler's debut "Mrs. Nash's Ashes", therefore, I asked for this arc as soon as I saw it on NetGalley. To be honest, "Mrs. Nash's Ashes" remains my favourite, still I had a really good time with "Happy Medium".

I immensely enjoy author's writing style and humour, her gift to create likeable characters and weave charming love stories with some depth. The chemistry between MCs in "Happy Medium" was great, and the sidekick character, whom somehow I didn't expect at all, almost stole the show. And who doesn't like a storyline of a city girl in the country, especially one involving goats?

My main issue with the book is that the ending was a bit of a mess, and really wanted for some kind of conclusion for the daughter-father line.

Thanks to NetGalley and Quercus Books for the eARC.

This turned out to be such a lovely book! The beginning felt a little slow, but I was invested enough already that I wanted to continue reading. But once on the farm, it was really enjoyable. Some of the dialogue was hilarious, and I found myself compelled to continue reading. Definitely a book I can recommend!

A really funny rom com book which also includes a ghost. A heartwarming read which I couldn’t put down.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC in return for an honest review. It was an absolute pleasure.

Happy Medium by Sarah Adler @sarahadlerwrites
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Thankyou Net Galley and Quercus Books for this arc of Happy Medium. Releasing 30th April 2024

“Okay well you be careful out there in the boonies. Don’t fall in love with the farmer and move to the countryside or anything.”

This book made me so giddy and I was laughing out loud at the hilarious banter of a ghost! This paranormal, small town, enemies to lovers, found family romance was the cutest!! Such a unique story that I utterly enjoyed.

This was such a heart felt rom-com with an amazing slow burn. The chemistry was off the charts! A MMC farmer with a goat and sunflower tattoo and a con artist FMC posing as a psychic… need I say more!!

What a wonderful and charming story!

Gretchen is a spirit medium con artist who is paid by her frequent client to perform an exorcism on a haunted goat farm that its owner Charlie is trying to sell, unsuccessfuly since whenever interested buyers come by, weird and unexplainable things start happening. Turns out, there is an actual ghost at the property and Gretchen can actually communicate with him.

I gotta admit, it took me a while to warm up to the story. I'm just very much not used to the 3rd person narration, but I ended up loving it!

Everett the Ghost is undeniably my favorite character! He's just a silly, funny himbo guy. And I love him.

Gretchen and Charlie's relationship was great. It was developing reaaaaal slooow since Charlie from the start knew that Gretchen is a fraud, so he was reluctant to trust her with anything. But their banter was top tier!

I think it's a perfect story for a movie!

4⭐️- Happy Medium is a hilarious, meaningful and extremely heartwarming story with such an original plot; all in all the perfect romcom! 🔮✨

Gretchen Acorn was raised by her con artist father to follow in his footsteps and makes her living as a fake medium, pretending to speak with loved one’s ghosts.

Her most dedicated customer leads her to Gilded Creek farm and what she thinks will be her easiest job yet…only to arrive and find not just Charlie the handsome but surly farmer, an actual ghost called Everett haunting the farm 👻

There was so much heart in this story 💕 Gretchen was such a relatable character who just wanted to find her place in the world and be accepted. Her friendship with Everett was so funny and at times really emotional, as they could both relate to each other for feeling lonely. And the romance between Gretchen and Charlie, of course, was my favourite part. Charlie was so humble and lost in his grief whilst trying to stay dedicated to his family’s farm. He was so determined to dislike Gretchen for her scamming ways, their slow burn relationship was endearing, genuine and spicy! 🔥

This was such a wholesome and unique read, my first of Sarah Adler’s books but definitely not my last.

Thank you to Quercus publishing and NetGalley for sending me an ARC copy in exchange for my honest review!

Well this was disappointing. And it honestly makes me sad, specially because I was actually having fun in the beginning of this book.

This story follows Gretchen, a fake spirit medium, who is hired by one of her best clients to help her bridge partner to perform a sort of an exorcism to cleanse his farm. He's been trying to sell the property for some time now, and every time potential buyers show up, something out of the ordinary happens that makes them run for their hills without looking back.

Gretchen is, of course, happy to help, but what she didn't expect was coming face-to-face with a very real ghost. And said ghost tells Gretchen about this family curse and asks for her help to prevent selling the farm in order to save Charlie's (the property's owner) life.

Now she has one month to convince Charlie not to sell the property. And how hard can this really be, right?

I really enjoyed the way this story started. Everett, the ghost, was honestly the star of the book for me. He's hilarious and all the giggles and little laughs I gave were because of him.
And that's pretty much all I enjoyed about this book.

Unfortunately I couldn't connect to the main characters at all. There was no chemistry between them, their first intimate moment (and all the other moments, tbh) felt cringe, very awkward, and not sexy, and I couldn't see how these two people fell in love. They just don't work together.

The book itself felt both too long and incomplete at the same time? I felt like some chapters were there to just "fill in the pages" but didn't necessarily bring development to the story itself, and the plot seemed a bit messy with many loose ends.

I recommend Mrs. Nash's Ashes book by Sarah, but this one was very much a miss for me unfortunately.

This was such a cute, heartwarming read! A nice mix of enemies to lovers, an annoying ghost and found family. This book really pulled in my heartstrings in the third act.

Thank you to NetGalley and Quercus Books for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This was the loveliest, funniest, most thought provoking book I’ve read in a long time and read just at a time when I needed to read a book like this.
Gretchen is a fake medium convincing rich clients she can speak to their dearly departed loved ones. When one of her clients sends her to a remote goat farm to carry out an exorcism she meets Charlie and also, Everett the ghost, who is the star of the book in my opinion. She must convince Charlie not to sell his goat farm in order to avoid a one hundred year old family curse which will see him trapped on the farm for all of eternity, just like Everett!
I absolutely loved loved this book and would highly recommend to anyone looking for a feel good romantic comedy.

**Thanks to the publisher and NetGalley for an advance copy in exchange for a fair and honest review**

This was a lovely read, very charming.

Gretchen is a fraud. She tries to leave her clients "better than she found them" (her own rule) but she can't speak to the dead like she claims. She has been lying to her clients for years and has had enough. She's ready to step back from her work as a medium,,, until her best client offers her thousands to go and help a friend who is struggling to sell his "haunted" property.

Gretchen doesn't believe for a minute that there's really a ghost... until she meets him.

Oh and the propery owner isn't a elderly man, he's a gorgeous, tattooed man who she definitely doesn't fancy. Nope.

A classic enemies to lovers tale with a ghostly element thrown in. Gretchen being able to see / speak to the ghost reminded me of the set up in BBC Ghosts - a very good thing!

I didn't expect this book to capture my heart so much. Gretchen is amazing, she has her flaws, but I think that's what gave her character a sense of reality and made me more attached to her. Not to mention, she made me laugh several times. The chemistry between Charlie and Gretchen was so well done, simply chef's kiss. And I'm a girl who loves supernatural stuff, so I loved every second of it.

Thank you so much, NetGalley and Quercus Books, for sending me this ARC.

Sarah Adler does it again with Happy Medium. I loved Gretchen and her ability to BS her way through her medium jobs. Charlie was also fun and did i mention the goats?!?!?! I will read anything Sarah Adler writes. Her quirkiness is as charming as ever in this book.

A fun and lighthearted read with a unique premise that I haven't come across before. The plot was fun but overall the book perhaps felt like it was a little longer than it needed to be. I enjoyed the writing style and overall it felt really cosy to read - I think it would be great to read in the Autumn in particular!

Many thanks to the author, publisher and Netgalley for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for an unbiased review.

This wasn't for me, I'm not very good with the subject matter of ghosts, and whether or not I believe in them and although this story was told in a not too serious way, I couldn't settle into it, unfortunately.

I received this arc in exchange for an honest review. 🤍

this was so good! i absolutely loved sarah adler’s first book ‘mrs nash’s ashes” and this one was even better.

the storytelling in these books is so unique and it makes it so easy to connect with the characters. i literally cried so much.

fans of the dead romantics will LOVE this!!

This book was a fun read with a love story that feels warm (and a great bit of spice). Gretchen con artist (or rather "bullshitter" as she'd prefer to be known) can't see ghosts, but gets paid as a medium because people believe she can. The the flirty, TV obsessed Everett was honestly the best character in this- One of my favourite lines in the whole book was "attempted murderers don't get to watch Bridgerton!"
I love the love interest Charlie, because usually when it's an enemies to lovers romance, the guy is surly and mean to everyone, but this was a really kind and thoughtful guy who (even when he hated her) couldn't help but care for her and is really protective of those he loves. I loved all the bits about it being on a goat farm but it did feel to be a bit of a whimsy type of telling, stereotyping farm life though i did still love reading it. I also kept waiting for something to happen that I thought kept getting hinted at but it never did but maybe that’s me over thinking and reading into things too much🤣

If you're wanting a lighthearted fun read to make you laugh or to just enjoy humorous the interactions between characters then it's the read for you!

4,5⭐️ but rounded up to a 5! Thank you Quercus Books and Netgalley for the opportunity to read this eARC in exchange for a honest review!

I read Mrs Nash's Ashes last year as an ARC on netgalley as well and I loved it! So I was so happy when I got accepted as an ARC reader for Happy Medium! Sarah's writing style is so fun to read, full of humor and serious topics as well! Very short chapters which we also love!

Now I'm gonna be honest, it took some chapters for me to get into this one because at first we get the introduction of Gretchen, her 'job' as a con-artist and her environment. After a few chapters I totally got the gist and started liking Gretchen more (and I even grew to love her)🥰 Her growth was so important in this story and I could totally relate to her, keeping everyone at arms length and never getting too attached to anyone because everyone always leaves🥺 Yeah I love her🫶🏼 I also very much loved the other two MCs ! Charlie, the struggling hot farmer, had a heart of gold. Loved him so much as well, trying to keep the business afloat even though it was nearly impossible. I loved the whole farm vibes as well, it melts my heart to read about and I can just picture myself living on the farm with them🤭 Everett, he might be my favorite character to be honest. The granddad ghost that always made the best out of a bad situation, his humor and sarcasm was amazing😆 Felt bad for him though because he had no one to be around and nothing to do until Gretchen came along. Loved their friendship so much🥹

Only thing I'd say felt a bit left out was her relationship with her father. I feel like it would've been better if we got a bit more to go on, maybe a little more information or closure? I expected it to play a bigger role to be honest.

Overal this was a very funny, heartwarming and cute paranormal romance! A very good romcom it you're looking for one! The way the characters grow together and help heal each others wounds was beautiful to read! I'd definitely recommend💕

Read this book - buy this book - enjoy and savor every page of this gorgeous heartfelt swoony romance🥰

This is so fresh - we’ve got Gretchen Acorn a fake medium, Everett a real ghost and Charlie who’s being haunted by Everett in order to stop him from selling his family’s goat farm. This setting means we have baby goats, farmer’s markets, cuddle puddles, prospective purchasers, not to mention rainbow vomit knitting, meddling elders, and Gretchen’s toxic father, all interwoven around life on the farm. As a slow burn there’s more pining than steam 🌶 but it’s hot as when we get there.

Shout out to Everett - what a ghost! He’s a cheeky himbo and such a lovely friend to Gretch.

I love the balance between the magic realism of Everett and his meddling, the visual humour around the goats and the melancholy of both Charlie and Gretchen, who are a little bit lost. It’s third person single POV, so we understand Gretchen, and learn a lot about the life of the con and how this has trapped and isolated her. I loved Gretchen, she’s vulnerable and clever, even as she uses her grifting skills to manipulate everyone. And Charlie, a superior book boyfriend, who’s lonely, vulnerable, mistrusting and overwhelmed.

There’s depth in what is essentially a funny, charming, and really quite delicious romance between these two who are so much better together.

If you love Ashley Poston, Sarah Hogle and Kate Clayborn then Sarah Adler is the bomb!

Thank you NetGalley, Quercus Books and Sarah Adler for the ARC - opinions are my own.

Such a whimsical and fun read!! Definitely a great way to enter the realm of magic if your have been hesitant on magic/fantasy books. I look forward to reading more from this author!