Main Characters
- Daphne
- Peter
- Miles
- Ashleigh
- Julia
Publisher’s Summary
Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra.
Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak.
Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them?
But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex…right?
Recent Reviews
Funny Story by Emily Henry Book Review
Emily Henry has done it again! Her storytelling is effortless, drawing you in with a charm that few other rom-com authors can match. The plot might be predictable, but in the best possible way—it feels like a comforting journey you want to take. This time, she tells the story of Daphne and Myles, two wallflowers with a history of rejection and family abandonment. They team up to make their exes—who are now together—jealous. What starts as a fake relationship blossoms into something more as they discover their own self-worth and value through each other. The way Emily writes and captures emotions hits hard, making you feel every moment deeply. It’s a heartwarming and engaging read that keeps you hooked from start to finish.
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Book Quotes
The same universe that dispassionately takes things away can bring you things you weren’t imaginative enough to dream up
― Emily Henry, Funny Story
It’s easy to be loved by the ones who’ve never seen you fuck up. The ones you’ve never had to apologize to, and who still think all your ‘quirks’ are charming.
― Emily Henry, Funny Story
You make the people you care about feel like … He pauses. Like you want all of them. Not just the good parts. And that’s terrifying to someone who’s spent a lifetime avoiding those other pieces of themselves.
― Emily Henry, Funny Story
You can’t untell someone your secrets. You can’t unsay those delicate truths once you learn you can’t trust the person you handed them to.
― Emily Henry, Funny Story
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