Book Review: Funny Story

Have you read the newest Emily Henry novel yet? I always love her books and I finished her latest, Funny Story, over the weekend.

The novel follows Daphne and Miles. Daphne is a librarian, focused, and has lived in lots of different places due to moving around a lot with her mom when she was growing up. When her fiancé, Peter, wants to move back to his hometown near Lake Michigan, Daphne leaves behind her life to start fresh in their new forever home. Everything is going perfectly until Peter comes home from his bachelor party and announces he’s leaving her for his lifelong best friend, Petra, and she needs to move out.

Miles works at a winery, seems to know everyone, and is a little more free spirited. What could he have in common with Daphne? His girlfriend, Petra, randomly broke up with him via note, moved out of their apartment, and got together wit her lifelong best friend whom she is apparently in love with.

With nowhere to live, Daphne asks Miles, whom she’s met a few times if she can move in to his apartment since now Petra and Peter are living together. The two become roommates, friends, and begin fake dating when they receive wedding invitations to Peter and Petra’s wedding!

I loved this book so much. I adored Daphne and Miles individually and together. They brought out the best in one another. In some ways I found Daphne really relatable and saw little bits of myself in her character. I loved the journey Daphne and Miles went on together and how they helped each other during a tough time in their lives. I mean, the audacity of their exes and then to invite Daphne and Miles to their wedding?!

I found the book really hopeful in the sense that both Daphne and Miles thought that what they had with their exes was the best thing to ever happen to them and that their exes were the loves of their lives. And when those relationships imploded, they felt a little lost, but they learned more about themselves and found each other so what they got in the end was way better than what they thought they wanted. It’s that idea that you think your world is over, but there’s something even better you’re meant to have.

Anyway, I loved this book. It had great banter, was funny, but also emotional. It had romance and friendship and was just so good. It may be my favorite of the month, but we’ll see because we’re only halfway through!

Read this if you want a spicy romcom with the friends to lovers, roomance (roommate), fake dating, and forced proximity tropes.

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