Poignant, heartbreaking and emotionally nuanced. 'More Happy than Not' is an intense and powerful novel about finding your way out of the darkness and being true to yourself. 
 This novel deals with a lot of complex concepts and intersectional identities, exploring sexuality and homophobia, grief and trauma, mental illness and suicide as well as ethnicity, identity and economic disadvantage. It is dark but honest, a gritty and raw representation of a messy and complex reality with some very important fundamental messages about what it means to truly find acceptance and be happy in a world that often marginalises those who are different or don't fit the white heteronormative experience. 
 The actual premise and writing style coupled with the beautifully three-dimensional characterisation and touching relationships is incredibly engaging, but it was the surprisingly ingenious and inventive plot that really brings the story together to produce something painfully emotional yet uplifting. 
 Please note that this novel does contain a lot of ableism, as well as internalised homophobia and biphobia. 
 TW: homophobia/biphobia, violence, self-harm/suicidal ideation, suicide, ableism, domestic violence.