Review: Funny Story

Funny Story by Emily Henry
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars.

Daphne was brought up by an effectively single mother because her father was absent more often than not. As a result, she has a desire for predictability, security, and someone who turns up when they say they will. She thought she had found that in her fiancé Peter, until on his stag night he realises he is actually in love with his platonic BFF Petra.

Now Daphne realises that she spent too much time trying to fit into Peter's life, Peter's house, Peter's city, with Peter's friends and Peter's hobbies. Now she's been forced to live with Petra's ex-boyfriend and housemate Miles, an easy-going guy who smokes a lot of weed and, according to Peter, has no real job. So she hatches a plan, she will find a new job, closer to her mother, just as soon as the readathon that she has been organising for the children she works with at the library has finished.

When Miles receives an invitation to Peter and Petra's wedding the two of them get really drunk and decide the best revenge would be to go to the wedding together and pretend to be dating (they were drunk and sad).

But soon these two heartbroken roommates find that they see each other more clearly than anyone else, will this be enough to make Daphne stay?

I enjoyed this, but for me it didn't have the spark of some of Emily Henry's other novels. TBH I think it also didn't help that I read another book with a similar MMC straight afterwards so they kind of merged together into a slightly too perfect man.

Anyhoo, an Emily Henry novel is still a great treat with likeable main characters, including a cast of secondary characters who are just as interesting.

I received an ARC from the publisher via NetGalley for an honest review.

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