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?
Hardcover, 400 pages
Published April 23, 2024
by Berkley
5/5 stars
I’ll confess I went into Funny Story a little bit apprehensive. Emily Henry’s previous book Happy Place was not a favourite of mine. I am happy to report that I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It had everything I love in a rom/com.
Funny Story is a funny story about Daphne and Miles. Left practically at the altar when her fiancé Peter says he is in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Petra leaves her boyfriend Miles when she declares her loves for Peter. What follows is Daphne with no place else to go and ends up being Mile's roommate. There is no romantic entanglement, but Daphne just needed to find a new place to live.
Funny Story has great banter. It had fake dating and what it didn't have was insta love or even insta lust (thank goodness). Rather it was two individuals working through their heartache, getting to know each other and knowing what the other was going through. But it also had deeper issues for Daphne to deal with.
Like I said, great banter, great storyline and characters to root for. Definitely five stars from me.
This book was part of my 2024 reading off my shelf challenge.
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