Funny Story

Funny Story

By:

Emily Henry

Spice Scale
Number of books
1 Published
KU
❌
Audiobook
✅
Series Status
Complete
Interconnected
N/A
Overall Rating
Coming Soon

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ∙ A shimmering, joyful novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024

Named a Must-Read Book of 2024 by TIME ∙ NPR ∙ ELLE ∙ Parade ∙ Woman’s World and more!

Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.

Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.

Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?

But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex . . . right?

Jamie’s review

This was my first Emily Henry book! A very cute, easy breezy beach read type of book. Or as some say, a “potato chip book.” Honestly, it was okay. Pretty predictable and a little slow for my liking.

I did not love the FMC Daphne until the very end. I could not understand what the MMC Miles saw in her, she was a self described lazy complainer and social pariah. FUN! But she redeems herself by the end. Kind of. Miles is MUCH more likable than she is.

I don’t know, I think I need more going on in a story line. It fell a little flat for me. I heard they are doing a screen adaptation though and I will 100% watch it.