A review by remyblodreina
Funny Story by Emily Henry

emotional lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

3.25

I want to start by saying. I’m a sucker for romance…but I’m also really picky. I’ve pretty much read all of Emily Henry’s books and even tho I enjoy them, not many of them *stay* with me. Happy Place and Book Lovers were probably my favorites (both 4stars). 

When I tell you I was sooo hopeful for this to be the Emily Henry book that got me (although, I have been got by her but in a YA/Magical realism book which I will have to make a post about…). The description sounded funny and I was really intrigued.  I know I try to do spoiler free reviews but I feel like I might have to switch that up. 

The book started off great. I listened to it on audio as I cleaned my house and chuckled a good amount buttt that quickly changed to just being kinda flat of a story. Daphne is fine and I can relate to a lot of her struggles but  I feel like Emily Henry tried to fit so much into the story, between Daphne’s self love journey, friendship journey, her daddy issues and mommy issues that I thought they were gonna addressed and a new love. I was expecting a romance not a finding oneself journey. Which I’m not mad about it but it threw me off when all of a sudden they are in love and what not. Like what. We’ve been in friendship land and daddy issue world and y’all have barely had ✨moments✨ but now I’m supposed to believe y’all are in love?? After you both got betrayed by your long term partners??? Just like that? 

I think this is where my personal problem lies. I need proper development, which is exactly why I’ll always pick a tv series over a movie. Now I’m learning that’s the case for books cause man you could not make me believe for a second that these two are genuinly in love. I feel like they definitely love and care for each other as friends butttt….I feel that between their parent issues and being left by their partners (and being the only ppl that truly gonna get what the other is going thru) they are only together cause they trauma bonded and 2 years down the line they’ll be over.  I think it’s even more frustrating cause after all this growth she’s literally repeating the same cycle. She made one new friend and then immediately took on Miles whole life….

I honestly think it would’ve been a 4-5 star if Miles (who is boring tbh, like not terrible guy and did charm me at times but….boring and also us learning about his issues at the very end??? Come on.) hadn’t been in the book I would’ve have cared. In fact I would preferred it to be a journey of self love story and even focused more on her friendship with Ashley (who I loved btw and she nailed it when she went off on her being a WE girl).

Okay im done. The actual funny story is how a book I love will get a sentence to a paragraph review but when im not a fan of something I go OFFFFF lmao.