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A review by abibliophilicaffair
Funny Story by Emily Henry
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
∞/5 ⭐️
Emily Henry has never missed for me. When I began reading this one, I felt a little sceptical because I wasn’t able to get over the fear that maybe this one just might not be for me. I saw so many people loving it, but I also saw a lot of people giving out reviews that were not to my liking and they kept saying how this seemed less of an Em Hen book somehow? Another reason being that I loved Happy Place so much last year when I read it, there hasn’t been a day where I haven’t thought about Wyn and Harriet. I have loved them so dearly for the last year or so, in a way that I haven’t loved any other character. I have thought about them nonstop for the better part of the year and that just got me in my biggest reading slump yet. To think that anyone or anything could even come close to how Happy Place made me feel, was a difficult for me to understand/accept. And that made me so scared to read this one.
The fear got to me for the first 15-20% of the book because I kept connecting and disconnecting to parts of it and it was becoming very difficult for me to continue reading because of this and the fact that I was travelling while I was reading this book (my mistake). However, as soon as I got over my funk I started to really connect with Daphne and her issues. The way Emily humanises her characters, I can always see bits and pieces of me in every character of her. The chemistry between Daphne and Miles was wild and the way that Miles just always stood up for Daphne and was there and showed up no matter what, warmed my heart in a way nothing could have. Emily Henry will always write about men who can heal me in a way that nothing else can.
After reading Funny Story, I do know that even though Wyn and Harriet will have the number 1 spot for me no matter what, Daphne and Miles are special and close to me in a way nothing else can be as well. And I have loved this book just as dearly and as deeply as I have always loved Emily Henry books. She just always does it for me. She will get me out of my reading slumps only to put me in one. She will make me feel things that I don’t want to or don’t know I can feel.
She will always surprise me with how much more I can love her writing every single year and she has never, once disappointed me.
This one definitely gets the one of the top spots for me thsi year.❤️
Emily Henry has never missed for me. When I began reading this one, I felt a little sceptical because I wasn’t able to get over the fear that maybe this one just might not be for me. I saw so many people loving it, but I also saw a lot of people giving out reviews that were not to my liking and they kept saying how this seemed less of an Em Hen book somehow? Another reason being that I loved Happy Place so much last year when I read it, there hasn’t been a day where I haven’t thought about Wyn and Harriet. I have loved them so dearly for the last year or so, in a way that I haven’t loved any other character. I have thought about them nonstop for the better part of the year and that just got me in my biggest reading slump yet. To think that anyone or anything could even come close to how Happy Place made me feel, was a difficult for me to understand/accept. And that made me so scared to read this one.
The fear got to me for the first 15-20% of the book because I kept connecting and disconnecting to parts of it and it was becoming very difficult for me to continue reading because of this and the fact that I was travelling while I was reading this book (my mistake). However, as soon as I got over my funk I started to really connect with Daphne and her issues. The way Emily humanises her characters, I can always see bits and pieces of me in every character of her. The chemistry between Daphne and Miles was wild and the way that Miles just always stood up for Daphne and was there and showed up no matter what, warmed my heart in a way nothing could have. Emily Henry will always write about men who can heal me in a way that nothing else can.
After reading Funny Story, I do know that even though Wyn and Harriet will have the number 1 spot for me no matter what, Daphne and Miles are special and close to me in a way nothing else can be as well. And I have loved this book just as dearly and as deeply as I have always loved Emily Henry books. She just always does it for me. She will get me out of my reading slumps only to put me in one. She will make me feel things that I don’t want to or don’t know I can feel.
She will always surprise me with how much more I can love her writing every single year and she has never, once disappointed me.
This one definitely gets the one of the top spots for me thsi year.❤️