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A review by dfwsusie
Funny Guy by Emma Barry
4.0
Bree has been in love with her best friend Sam since childhood. Sam can’t pull his head out of his keister long enough to realize he’s about to lose her. When Bree finally realizes that she’s choking on the fresh scene of pine-ing, Sam starts to realize there is one woman he’s never wanted to let go of. But can he resist the temptation to let his past wreck the only love he’s ever known?
Funny Guy is a friends to lovers celebrity romance about a successful comedian who is on an SNL type show and his best friend who has yearned for him unrequited. Both characters bonded over trauma as kids and that makes their fears about actually sealing the deal feel a lot more realistic than just “what if we mess up the friendship.”
Friends to lovers can often be hard to pull off, because at some point we all want to slap the characters upside the head and ask them to just get it over with. Here, that doesn’t happen, with Bree and Sam both being reticent about hurting the other to the point that they hurt each other. That factor made Funny Guy a much more emotional read than many other books that tackle this trope.
I’d recommend Funny Guy to fans of Vi Keeland/Penelope Ward, Lauren Blakely, and Kate Clayborn.
Spice Level: 2/5, open door
Tropes: Celebrity Romance, Friends to Lovers
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Thank you to NetGalley and Montake for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. Expected publication date May 16, 2023.
Funny Guy is a friends to lovers celebrity romance about a successful comedian who is on an SNL type show and his best friend who has yearned for him unrequited. Both characters bonded over trauma as kids and that makes their fears about actually sealing the deal feel a lot more realistic than just “what if we mess up the friendship.”
Friends to lovers can often be hard to pull off, because at some point we all want to slap the characters upside the head and ask them to just get it over with. Here, that doesn’t happen, with Bree and Sam both being reticent about hurting the other to the point that they hurt each other. That factor made Funny Guy a much more emotional read than many other books that tackle this trope.
I’d recommend Funny Guy to fans of Vi Keeland/Penelope Ward, Lauren Blakely, and Kate Clayborn.
Spice Level: 2/5, open door
Tropes: Celebrity Romance, Friends to Lovers
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Thank you to NetGalley and Montake for the ARC in exchange for an honest review. Expected publication date May 16, 2023.