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Funny Story by Emily Henry

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headinthepages's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

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dianaschmidty's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is Emily Henry’s funniest book to date! I feel like it’s the first of her books that has a title that really fits the story. I could not stop laughing! Practically everything out of Miles’ mouth either had me cackling or swooning. With the exception of Alex Nilsen (because no one will ever top Alex Nilsen in any book ever ever), Miles is my favorite Emily Henry MMC. Besides being really funny, he’s also so thoughtful and romantic. His only flaw is having feelings for Petra in the first place, but I guess Daphne has a similar flaw in her feelings for Peter.

This book was also deeply romantic. It’s one of the best strangers to lovers stories I’ve ever read, with me truly believing their trajectory from two separate heartbroken people to a unit that seemed destined to end up together. I love how despite seeming like complete opposites, they had so much in common and they complemented each other. They also had great chemistry and their slow burn was perfect! I also love how them taking their time to seemingly find their other half in their own apartment felt so realistic.

I loved Daphne! With the exception of Poppy Wright (sensing a pattern?), Daphne is my favorite Emily Henry FMC. Her journey to realizing that she hadn’t been living a life for herself is so relatable and it was genuinely inspiring to watch her practically start her life over in her 30s, not only with Miles, but also in forming her friendship with Ashleigh.

Speaking of Ashleigh, this is one of the best portrayals of friendship that I’ve ever read. To be honest, despite that being the whole theme with Happy Place, I kind of hated the friendships in that book. This book, however, portrayed realistic friendships that weren’t toxic and it was amazing! Even the mention of Daphne’s relationship with Sadie felt so incredibly relatable.

Everyone has had that friend that they thought they were close to until an SO became the center of their friend’s world. It sucks, but it’s realistic and I loved that portrayal. I also thought that her friendship with Ashleigh felt both realistic and was a lesson in what it means to have a healthy friendship. You can screw up, but as long as you can admit that and still be there for one another, you can still be friends.

Also, can I rant about Petra and Peter for a second? I kind of loved their existence because in many books, and other types of media, the “nice people” that the main characters want to hate but really can’t are usually nice. They’re not secretly backstabbing traitors who pretend to be the “nice people” to keep their status. The entire novel, Daphne and Miles are very authentic people, while Petra and Peter are little conniving weasels who like to remind Daphne and Miles how “happy they are for them” in their fake relationship. And it was honestly amazing to watch.

The moral of the story is that Petra and Peter suck and the two of them dumping Miles and Daphne, respectively, is the best thing to ever happen to Miles, Daphne, Julia, Ashleigh, Harvey, or Elda!

Thank you to Edelweiss, Berkley, and Emily Henry for providing me access to this book.

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mylynn's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Thank you to Berkley Romance for this ARC!!!

Emily Henry is magic. I'm not sure how she manages to pack so much tension and clever banter into each and every book she writes but I'm so in love with her books👏 every 👏 single👏 time. In a surprise to no one, I absolutely adored this book. I always tell myself that I'm gonna take my time with each new Emily Henry release but I am physically unable to and devour it in a day (and then I'm sad because it's over, but there's always a reread).

As always, her characters are so well-written and fleshed out. Daphne is so relatable; her thought processes and struggles were so real to me and she might be my favorite Emily Henry MC yet. Daphne's relationship with the library feels especially relatable to me, as someone who spent a lot of time there (one might say *too* much time there) in my youth to be out of my parents' hair. Libraries truly are amazing places and I love the passion and love that Daphne has for them.

Miles might be my favorite Emily Henry boyfriend, but let's be real: "men written by Emily Henry" is my actual type. The things I would do for a Miles POV chapter...

I loved this book so much, on top of the top tier banter + tension + shenanigans we also have parts that made me cry and characters working through issues that left me feeling a little raw (in a good way). I can't wait for pub day so I can reread in the form of Julia Whelan reading to me.

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