Funny Story

Name: Funny Story
Author: Emily Henry

Emily Henry

TIME Best Books 2024 · New York Times Notable Book of 2024 · NYT Bestseller

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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4.2 average· 1 review

Novelust user

Jan 26, 2024

4.0

This was a solidly good book & time well spent. I appreciate that despite the far-fetched way that the two leads meet, this book otherwise had character depth and development, emotional intelligence, relatability, comedic relief, and friendship plot. This probably would have been 5 stars if I hadn’t JUST finished another romance right before it. 😛