Funny Story by Emily Henry

Reviewer: Brenna
Main Leads: Daphne Vincent, Miles Nowak
Setting: United States, Michigan, Waning Bay
Genres: Romance, Contemporary
Tags: Opposites Attract, Fake Dating, Roommates to Lovers, Small Town Romance, Friends to Lovers
Published On: April 23, 2024
Publisher: Berkley
Format: Audio
Source: Purchased
Pages: 395
Purchase It: Amazon | Barnes & Noble

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?

This book is one of my favorite reads of the year because we were able to see and feel all the feels with both Daphne and Miles. I haven’t read a lot of books from the main male lead’s perspective so I loved that we got to know Miles while Daphne was getting to know him. It added so much to my enjoyment of the book as a whole cause I felt like we got a fuller understganding of the romance between Miles and Daphne. The twists were twisting and I loved every second of reading this book.

Daphne was my girl. I connected with her story a lot because I saw a lot of my story in hers. She was raised by a single Mom and she was close with her Mom. I was raised by a single Mom and I’m close with my Mom so it was easy for me to connect with a lot of the things that Daphne took into consideration when making life decisions. I loved that she always made her Mom a priority and was considerate of her Mom in all of her major decisions. I also really loved how supportive her mother was. The most important thing to her Mom was Daphne’s happiness and I really love a supportive Queen.

Seeing the relationship between Miles and Daphne blossom was a good time. They balanced each other out so well and challenged each other to be the very best versions of themselves and I just really dug it. I really liked how they handled whatever was thrown their way like adults and they just made it so easy to root for them and their romance was steamy enough to keep things interesting so all in all, I was a happy camper.

This book was so good that I couldn’t put it down. I was excited to see how everything played out and I liked getting both of the main leads perspectives for the same situations, even if we got Miles through his interactions with Daphne. They were so different from each other but together, they made sense so seeing them both move on from their relationships and come together in to their own was a treat that I’m glad I stuck around for.

I’m very happy that I picked up this book. I loved how everything came together, and obviously, this was a funny story so I definitely recommend.

Final Rating

5 out of 5