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Funny Story by Emily Henry

319 reviews

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful lighthearted 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: Yes

As always, Emily Henry is adored in the book community, so when this book was finally released on Paperback, I instantly pre-ordered it. I have loved some of Emily’s book, I have struggled with Emily’s book, so I was a bit nervous going into this seeing how hype it was, and I enjoy it.

This book is based on Daphne, and she has always loved the way her fiancé, Peter, told their story. How they met, fell in love, and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He was good at telling it, right up until the moment he realised he was 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, and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak. Miles is 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?

I enjoyed the storyline, and it was an interesting way on a meet-cute, both of the exes dating. I liked the character development Daphne went through where she was putting herself in a box to have this perfect family and joining in their traditions and changing herself, to sticking up for herself and what she wanted and making her own traditions, even when Peter came back, she realized how much she has changed and that she doesn’t need or want him anymore. I love how she managed to stand up to her dad because hearing Daphne talking about her relationship with her dad and how fucked up it was, well, it hit a little too close to home and I'm glad that Daphne got the ending and how she managed to say stop doing this dad, you are hurting me and I'm done. Miles was funny and I loved his attitude to get Daphne to enjoy the town and to not hate the town and to hate Peter instead. Ashleigh, Miles’s sister and Harvey saved this book from being 3 stars. I loved them and how they were calling them both out on their bullshit but also going through it themselves and the found family that they built within the small town.

I felt like it took a good while for the relationship to feel like a relationship or proper feelings. I would have loved for this to be a dual POV, I think it would have made the book 1000% times better. I was getting sick of the repeated thoughts from Daphne being “he’s just my roommate, I'm leaving, he is still in love his Petra, he deserves better”. I thought Miles was just going along with it for Daphne and to help him move on, so I would have LOVED for Miles’s POV to see this man pinning over Daphne and seeing her in a different light. I think I was wanting as dual POV as well because Daphne was giving me a headache sometimes throughout the book, being in her brain hurt my head and I found myself skimming over her monologue and her “I’m unlovable” thoughts. The third act conflict wasn’t needed, miscommunication on both of their parts and it just took a conversation to resolve it all.

Overall, it was an enjoyable read, and I enjoyed the character development both went through. I think I was just expecting more with how hype it has been.

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hungry_wombat's review against another edition

4.25

funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

tallard's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny hopeful reflective 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: Yes

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6dan13la's review against another edition

4.5

lighthearted medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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raisingself's review against another edition

4.25

emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Content Warnings

candacehankins's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Another great read by Emily Henry! I love the way she writes banter between characters. There was strong character development for the female and male leads. It was great to see Daphne build multiple different kinds of relationships and not just a romantic one. I also enjoyed how we kept peeling back the layers of both of them through different adventures and conversations. The slow build was believable and real.

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christelh's review against another edition

4.0

funny lighthearted relaxing 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

Content Warnings

kaitlynnnng's review against another edition

4.0

funny hopeful lighthearted 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: Yes

A solid read. It’s much better than Happy Place was, thank goodness. I liked and related to Daphne, and I really liked Miles!

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creativekristi's review against another edition

4.75

emotional funny hopeful medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This is my second read by this author and it did not disappoint!
I laughed and cried at different times.
While I really enjoyed the story and the slow burn I didn’t like that the two exes

ended up together. I loved Miles and Daphne as a couple I just hated that their exes dumped them both and that’s how/why they ended up together.

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paulabekkerus's review against another edition

5.0

emotional lighthearted relaxing 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: Yes

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