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Funny Story
#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?
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?
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Good romance, I thought it was sweet and funny. I liked the secondary characters as well. I liked the setting the story took place in.
Exactly the book I needed exactly when I needed it. I loved all the characters and the small town and the life they built by the end.
Her self-loathing got to be a little annoying, and her tweed wearing, but the story and setting just made me happy. The steamy scenes and the sexual tension leading up to them were great! Fun, light, and happy!
Overall, I loved this book! Daphne and Miles are both amazing characters to follow, even if their exes are the absolute worst. I enjoyed the fact that Daphne is a children’s librarian - books with bookish themes are always a favorite of mine. I also was a big fan of the summertime period in Northern Michigan. It made it seem small town-ish and helped making everything more cozy. I wish there was a bit more spice but it was still swoon-worthy. At this point, Emily Henry is one of my favorites and this is one of those reasons why. She does such an incredible job making her stories so realistic and her characters so likeable. I finished this one super quick and that’s just more evidence of how incredible it was. I cannot recommend enough.
Cinnamon Roll MMC and a fiesty strait laced FMC. I love it! This book had me laughing and giggling throughout the whole thing. When they lean on each other through the rough times it is so sweet. I love how Miles does not give up on her. He is always there for her. Very swoony and funny book!
I hate that good reads doesnât give us half stars because this was closer to 4.5 stars. I listened to the audio version on Spotify and it was so easy to listen to. It truly is a âfunny storyâ on two falling in love.
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