Funny Story
Emily Henry
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
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· 843 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 68
- contemporary 66
- m-f romance 62
- friends to lovers 61
- small town 58
- forced proximity 57
- sweet/gentle hero 51
- funny 50
- found family 47
- competent heroine 40
- hurt/comfort 39
- slow burn 35
- working class hero 34
- sweet/gentle heroine 33
- angst 30
- sunny/happy hero 29
- independent heroine 24
- tortured hero 17
- shy heroine 11
- working class heroine 10
- other man/woman 8
- tortured heroine 6
- betrayal 6
- white collar heroine 5
- childfree 4
- in her 30s 3
- in his 30s 3
- new adult 1
- older/mature 1
- grumpy & sunshine 1
- good grovel 1
- plain heroine 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- past child abuse 29
- mental trauma 17
- past child neglect 8
- geography
- michigan 42
- usa 34
- north america 12
- Format
- audiobook
- first person pov 48
- standalone 5
