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!

I read an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
There was something about this book that made me want to read it all until it was finished! I guess it was unpredictable in the way that both main characters had dads that could've changed the outcome of the story. Luckily those factors didn't affect the ending.
I think I really enjoyed Gretchen's interactions with Everett a lot too. Plus the fact that Gretchen had some baggage and a past, it really helped the audience to like her.
4.5 stars

Gretchen Acorn doesn’t consider herself a grifter. She tries to kid herself that her blue-haired grannies feel better for a fake séance. At the back of her mind it’s her father who is the ultimate snake oil salesman. She’s so good at faking ghostly appearances that one of her rich clients decides she would be perfect to exorcise a friend’s farmhouse so he can sell his farm. Gretchen thinks that would be cool. She examines the offer from every angle and thinks it can’t do any harm especially because of the vast sum offered.
Her new ‘client’, Charlie Waybill, can spot a fraud from a mile off and Gretchen makes a bad first impression. She decides to cut her losses but it’s the friendly ghost she meets on the way out that shocks Gretchen into her first real unselfish act. She decides to stay to help to lift a family curse that would condemn the rather hot Charlie Waybill to an eternity rattling his chains around his goat farm. It seems Gretchen isn’t as cynical as she likes to believe as she befriends Everett, the family ghost and tries to convince Charlie of the reality of the problem before he falls victim. It turns out she’s not as selfish as she thinks and not only discovers love but also the power of real friendship.
Despite have a somewhat dark premise this turned out to be an absolute hoot. There is plenty of fun to be had in the will they won’t they romance and we get to learn just why Gretchen holds back from love and friendship whilst demonstrating to Charlie that there are things he can also change to make a better life. As for Everett, the ghost, he gets to make a journey too. This is great fun and I hope there are more to come.

4 stars⭐️

Thank you to NetGalley and Quercus Books for the e-arc of this cute little rom-com. The plot of this book was written so good! I loved how it had the paranormal element in it with Everett and the characters were lovely too!

A well-meaning con-artist is hired to rid a house of its hauntedness, only to realise that ghosts are real – and annoying. Suddenly, Gretchen finds herself responsible for convincing said haunted house’s owner, Charlie, that his farm is, in fact, cursed, and that he’ll die if ever leaves.

This task proves to be tricky, but with the help of the impatient and meddling ghost, Emmett, they might all be fine.

I’ve heard such great things about Mrs Nash’s Ashes – which I’m still excited to read! – but this novel was unfortunately not for me. It’s rather long, and I felt there was a lot of back-and-forth in the characters' relationships, which was a bit tiring. The dialoge also felt a bit off; I think this story would have worked well as a movie, maybe something like Hillary Duff’s Cinderella.

Happy Medium can provide a welcome break from a busy life, and is well suited for a reader who likes to take their time.

Thank you to Quercus Books and NetGalley for the ARC!

4.5 stars rounded up ⭐⭐⭐⭐✨

If you love small-town romances and don’t mind some paranormal aspects, this book is perfect for you! It’s about a fake spirit medium named Gretchen, who is tasked with helping a friend of a client sell their house by exorcising the ghost who haunts it. However, the owner of the house doesn’t believe in the supernatural, and Gretchen finds herself trying to convince him that this time, it’s not a con, and there truly is a ghost named Everett haunting the house.

The ghost, Everett, is hilarious and unhinged, and the main couple, Gretchen and Charlie, are both quite relatable. I couldn’t help but devour the book in a single day! The spicy parts of the book are very well-written, and I was hooked from the very first chapter. The only reason I didn’t give it a 5-star rating was that I felt we could have had a more thorough development of the main couple’s relationship. While the book is not short by any means, I felt that the pacing of the relationship was a bit rushed at times.

A blatant con-woman operating as a spirit medium with her own version of a moral code. A goat farmer who’s struggling, isolated, and understandably sceptical of the aforementioned medium’s motives. And a television-obsessed ghost revelling in the fact that someone can actually see him for the first time in a century. All of these combine to produce a heartwarming and thoroughly romantic novel full of humour, character growth… and goats. I particularly enjoyed the push-pull slow burn relationship between Gretchen and Charlie, falling for each other despite their best intentions, and that was offset beautifully by Everett, a metaphorical and literal scene-stealer with his dramatic flair. Delightfully entertaining and highly recommended.
Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the advance review copy. All opinions are my own.

A book that will make you smile. Turning up on a goat farm at the behest of her most profitable client Acorn is called out as a fraud. A confidence trickster playing medium for profit. But the exorcism she has been booked to carry means she meets the real ghost.
If the owner sells the property and it's no longer in the family he will be condemned to the afterlife for ever.
Belief, disbelief and opening up to possibilities.
Enjoy I did

The main character, Gretchen Acorn, may be a fake spirit medium, but her intentions are pure when she agrees to help a skeptical, sexy farmer, Charlie Waybill, who is struggling to sell his goat farm due to unexplainable occurrences. As Gretchen navigates her way through the task of convincing Charlie of the property's resident ghost, she finds herself falling for him. But with the looming threat of losing him to the spirit realm, Gretchen must use all of her cunning and charm to save the farm and the man she's grown to love. Adler's writing is humorous and heartwarming, making this novel a delightful read for fans of her previous work, Mrs. Nash's Ashes.

When I first started this book, I wasn’t sure how I was going to get on but I ended up loving it and loving all of the characters! It was a slow start but once I started to get into the book, I couldn’t put it down.

It starts with Gretchen, who’s making a living being a fake medium and helping others “connect” with their loved ones after they have passed away. When one of her clients offers her a lot of money to help her friend get rid of a ghost, Gretchen can’t say no. Except what she didn’t have in mind would be that the hot but grumpy farm owner thinks she’s a fraud and all but slams his front door in her face. That is until Everett, the very real and very dead ghost appears, begging her to save Charlie from the family curse that has him haunting guilded creek forever.

Watching Gretchen try and explain to Charlie why he can’t sell the house and goat farm was very entertaining, because Charlie just doesn’t believe her at all. Nothing she could say would change his mind but watching as the two of them grow closer, and their relationships grows, so does Charlie’s suspicion that maybe she isn’t lying this time.

I loved watching as Charlie and Gretchen started to trust each other and open up more, having a few cute and heartfelt moments together but what I loved the most, was watching the friendship between Gretchen and Everett. He was such a character and really made me laugh the entire time I was reading, his inappropriate comments only Gretchen can hear as well as the mischief he gets up to with other guests.

I really enjoyed the whole concept of this book and how their weren’t just 2 main characters and that Everett had such a big role within this story, he really managed to make me laugh and I loved reading about the time they spent together and how they worked together (sort of) to help Charlie and the goat farm.

I really enjoyed the writing style of this book and how comfortable it made me feel while reading it, I could picture everything I was reading and that made my experience even better!