Funny Story by Emily Henry

Traveling With T purchased this audio for her walking while listening time.

Funny Story

Summary: A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common.

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?

Traveling With T’s Thoughts:

Oh my. I absolutely adore Emily Henry books and this one is SO good.

First, Emily Henry’s characters, specifically her female main characters, are so damn funny. I’m sure it comes across in a print book, but in the audiobook narrated by the divine Julia Whelan? It’s PERFECTION.

Second, her covers are great. Eye-catching and perfect for summer reading!

What I liked:

That blue cover is something else!

Daphne and Miles. They had the magic, the chemistry, EVERYTHING.

Ashley. That girl was something else. No BS and I just loved how she was going to tell you how it was going to be.

Bottom line: Funny Story checked all my boxes and should be in your beach bag.

*This book was purchased by Traveling With T for listening while walking time. All thoughts and opinions are mine alone.*