Funny Story
Emily Henry
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· 737 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?
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Tagged as:
- fake relationship 63
- contemporary 61
- friends to lovers 57
- m-f romance 56
- small town 53
- forced proximity 50
- funny 47
- sweet/gentle hero 47
- found family 43
- hurt/comfort 38
- competent heroine 37
- slow burn 32
- sweet/gentle heroine 31
- working class hero 31
- angst 27
- sunny/happy hero 26
- independent heroine 21
- tortured hero 15
- working class heroine 7
- childfree 6
- shy heroine 6
- other man/woman 5
- tortured heroine 3
- betrayal 3
- white collar heroine 3
- new adult 1
- older/mature 1
- good grovel 1
- plain heroine 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- past child abuse 27
- mental trauma 14
- past child neglect 4
- geography
- michigan 40
- usa 32
- north america 10
- Format
- Audiobook
- first person pov 46
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