The Happy Camper Book Review

I have read other books by this author and decided that this sounded like a fun new addition.  I knew nothing about it but how can you pass up on the cover.  Doesn't it look like so much fun?  Happy Camper by Melody Carlson came in the mail and I was excited to get to start reading it as soon as possible. 

Home is the place to heal, right? At least, that's what Dillon Michaels is hoping as she leaves her disappointing career and nonstarter love life behind to help her grieving and aging grandfather on his small Oregon farm. The only problem? Her eccentric mother beat her there and has taken over Dillon's old room. After a few nights sleeping on a sagging sofa, Dillon is ready to give up, until she receives an unlikely gift--her grandfather's run-down vintage camp trailer, which she quickly resolves to restore with the help of Jordan Atwood, the handsome owner of the local hardware store.

But just when things are finally beginning to run smoothly, Dillon's noncommittal ex-boyfriend shows up with roses . . . and a ring.  Full of quirky characters, family drama, and sweet romance, The Happy Camper will have you scouring Craigslist for your own diamond-in-the-rough camper to restore and haunting your local hardware store for a handy guy to help your dreams come true.

I thought that it was a good book.  Dillon is the main character and she is living the life that she thinks that she thinks she is supposed to be living.  She ends up breaking up with her boyfriend after he is late again for a date and it is the last straw because he didn't even answer any of her calls or texts.  Dillon gets called into work and tells her boss that she can't come.  She ends up quitting her job right over the phone and decides that she is going to change her life all together.  She packs up all her stuff and fills her car with everything she owns and heads back home to where she grows up.  Things are changing quickly but she feels better right away like a weight has been lifted from her shoulders so she is excited to start on the next chapter of her life.  You meet lots of people like her grandfather who is her biggest supporter, her mother who is her most difficult to deal with and all the people from her childhood.  She lives on her grandfathers couch until he gives her an old camper which she remodels and this starts her new life in the small town where she grew up but gives her some independence.  There was a little bit in the middle of the book where it seemed that they were pushing religion in where it wasn't a good fit.  I thought that it would have been better to not be so pushy because it seemed strange and made me stop and wonder if it was a good book.  It quickly got past that part and overall, I thought it was a good book.  I was interested to see what happened to the characters.  It finally got to the part that it was going to be at the resolution and it ended very quickly.  Overall, I thought it was a good read but I don't know if it was as good as other books that she has written.  Check out the book for yourself and let me know what you think!

**A copy of this book was provide for my review but all opinions here are my own