Funny Story
Emily Henry
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
4.31
· Steam/Spice level: 3 of 5
Open door [?]
· 477 ratings · 416 pages · Published: 23 Apr 2024

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 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 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?
Tagged as:
- fake relationship 51
- contemporary 50
- m-f romance 46
- friends to lovers 45
- small town 43
- funny 40
- forced proximity 40
- first person pov 39
- sweet/gentle hero 38
- found family 35
- hurt/comfort 30
- competent heroine 28
- slow burn 27
- sweet/gentle heroine 24
- angst 21
- sunny/happy hero 21
- working class hero 21
- independent heroine 16
- tortured hero 10
- working class heroine 3
- other man/woman 3
- new adult 1
- older/mature 1
- tortured heroine 1
- childfree 1
- good grovel 1
- plain heroine 1
- love triangle 1
- grumpy/ice queen 1
- shy heroine 1
- Add topics
- geography
- michigan 34
- usa 28
- north america 7
- content warnings
- past child abuse 22
- mental trauma 8
- past child neglect 1