Kaitlyn‘s review of Funny Story by Emily Henry
Contemporary Romance published by Berkley 23 Apr 24
To say I’m an Emily Henry fan is a serious understatement. I’ll read anything this woman writes – she can do no wrong.
This is A LITERAL MASTERPIECE. I laughed out loud at least 837 times. The banter is PERFECTION. Seriously, some of her wittiest writing yet. I had so much fun with this book. I binged it in five hours and was devastated when it was over. The writing is flawless, and I would die for the side characters.
Miles is right up there with Charlie Lastra, vying for top book boyfriend. How does Emily do it? ! I’m in awe.
I was laughing and crying, and I just don’t understand how Emily writes these phenomenal FMC’s and perfect, swoon-worthy men every. single. time.
Honestly, I don’t think I can rank Emily’s books anymore because they’re all worthy of the number one spot. Okay, Book Lovers will probably always be my favorite because it was my first.
Grade: A
Summary:
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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