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By Emily Henry
🎧 Narrated by: Julia Whelan
Book 58 of 2024
I was not prepared for how heavy the parental trauma was going to be in this one – definitely reach out or look up the content warnings if that’s an area of sensitivity.
As much as I tend towards fluffy romances than ones like this that make me feel my feelings, I absolutely adored Funny Story. Emily Henry is a master at balancing humor, romance, and deep feelings to create a story that sticks with you for a long time after reading it. In fact, I loved it so much that it took me weeks before I could read another contemporary romance book, because nothing held up to this masterpiece.
In the very beginning, I wasn’t sure if I was going to enjoy this one, because the premise includes my least favorite trope of “ooops I’m actually in love with my best friend” and our introduction to Miles gave me the ick. But I was quickly drawn into the story, and absolutely loved both Daphne and Miles.
🎧 Julia Whelan is simply a master storyteller. It is always a treat to listen to her work and completely lose yourself in the story.
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A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.
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?
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