Funny Story by Emily Henry #bookreview #contemporary #romance

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Title: Funny Story

Author:  Emily Henry

Publisher: Berkley

Publication Date: April 23, 2024

Page Count:  395

My rating: 5 stars

About the book:

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

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?

Funny Story by Emily Henry is a contemporary romance novel. The story in Funny Story is one of starting over with a few tropes at the heart of the novel in forced proximity turning into fake dating then onto friends to lovers.

Daphne had packed up and moved to Waning Bay, Michigan with her fiance Peter beginning to plan their life together. That is until weeks before the wedding Peter decides that he’s really in love with his bestie turned new romance Petra and he wants to start a life with her instead.

With no where to go in an unfamiliar town Daphne turns to the one person who can probably understand her dilemma, Miles. Miles was also recently dumped by non other than Petra so of course he has a spare room for Daphne but when they both get invited to the Peter and Petra wedding party they both refuse to show their shared misery and what better way to prove this than pretend to date one another.

Funny Story is the first book I’ve read from author Emily Henry but after hearing such good things I was very hopeful going into this one. Thankfully this is one of those times I was glad to take the leap into a new author since I enjoyed every minute of reading. I’m not the biggest fan of characters jumping right into something new but on the other hand I love a little fake dating and the author sold me on Daphne and Miles quickly and I couldn’t help but root for their happy ending.

I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

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About the author:

Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Happy Place, Book Lovers, People We Meet on Vacation, and Beach Read. She studied creative writing at Hope College, and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Find her on Instagram @EmilyHenryWrites.