What do you do when your grandfather and grandmother own an amusement park? Well, you help out of course. It is a family run park, and if you are Reilly Rhoades, you work there every season, because that is what you do. If your grandmother is making candied apples, you help with that.

And so that is Reilly’s life, until her grandfather dies while trying to figure out how to get people across a river. If you are going to say build a bridge, you are not thinking far enough. But, the show must go on, so to speak, and they open the park, but then her grandmother has a heart attack.

This is the story about a place that is supposed to be happy. Where the slogan is “find your happy” and yet Reilly is not happy. She misses her grandfather, and she is worried about her grandmother…and her aunt…and her cousin…and her mother.

This was a great story. I thought it was going to be about an amusement park, and it was, but it was also about friendships, and learning to let some things go, and to take one day at a time.

What I really liked was the description of how you go from very low when you first are admitted to the hospital, and how you can excel from there in rehab, as I saw my partner do.

Fun book. Quirky too. Very enjoyable.

Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review. This book is coming out the 23rd of September 2025

Reilly’s family has owned an amusement park for over 50 years and with Grandpa gone now, her aunt thinks why own the park anymore. When it reopens for the season, Reilly thinks it doesn’t feel right without Grandpa, but Grandma makes it feel right. When Reilly and Nic find Grandma on the floor, the ambulance is called. Reilly keeps thinking of the signs in town about happiness being around the corner. She wonders if she’ll be able to find it. When they open the park the next day, Reilly makes a new friend, Alex, who is staying for a few weeks. He helps Reilly at the park, and she slowly realizes that even though someone isn’t there with you in your life, thinking about them helps.
Thank you to the publisher and Netgalley for the eARC of this book. All opinions are my own.