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A review by fleeno
Funny Story by Emily Henry
2.0
Daphne is devastated when her fiance Peter leaves her for his childhood best friend Petra. Having followed Peter to his home town, Daphne knows no one except Petra's gilted boyfriend Miles, so she moves into his spare room because misery loves company. When they both receive a pity invite to Peter and Petra's engagement party Daphne tells Peter she and Miles are dating and they agree to fake date to get back at their ex's.
After a few heavy books I needed something light and this certainly did not contain any depth. Daphne spends a lot of the book saying how boring she is and she's right, she is. The fake dating is so childish that I was shocked when they characters said they were in their 30s. Pretending to date their ex's new partners ex is immature and stupid. There is no tension between Miles and Daphne because it's clear they like each other from the begining. The only conflict is that they just got out of long term relationships but that's hardly an insurmountable reason to not be together. The whole basis for the title is that the story of how Daphne and Peter met was "a funny story" and that Miles and Daphne are also "a funny story", except they're not that funny. Maybe it's because I'm not well and my brain isn't fully functioning but I found this to be so low stakes there were literally no stakes. It was stakeless.
After a few heavy books I needed something light and this certainly did not contain any depth. Daphne spends a lot of the book saying how boring she is and she's right, she is. The fake dating is so childish that I was shocked when they characters said they were in their 30s. Pretending to date their ex's new partners ex is immature and stupid. There is no tension between Miles and Daphne because it's clear they like each other from the begining. The only conflict is that they just got out of long term relationships but that's hardly an insurmountable reason to not be together. The whole basis for the title is that the story of how Daphne and Peter met was "a funny story" and that Miles and Daphne are also "a funny story", except they're not that funny. Maybe it's because I'm not well and my brain isn't fully functioning but I found this to be so low stakes there were literally no stakes. It was stakeless.