Funny Story book review

Emily Henry is an author whose new releases I pretty much always read within a month of its release and Funny Story was no exception. I loved it and had a great time reading and annotating it.

Funny Story follows Daphne who was dumped by her fiance for his childhood best friend and has now moved in with the childhood best friend’s ex-boyfriend, Miles.

Emily Henry’s characters are always one of my favourite things about her books and this was no exception. Daphne and Miles were really interesting to follow and I was continually interested in learning more about them and seeing where the story was going to take them. I liked seeing Daphne grow and face more realisations about her life and what she wanted. Miles is probably also within my top 3 Emily Henry book boyfriends even if Funny Story doesn’t quite make the top 3. Once you understood Miles’s past that made his actions make sense it was amazing to see just how much he did for Daphne and how much she meant to him. We also had some great side characters in Miles’s sister, Julia and Daphne’s friend from the library, Ashleigh. The support they gave our key characters was great and they were also really fun to read about as characters in their own right.

I really liked Daphne’s job as a librarian and all the book focus that we had, as a reader it was great to see. And all the different references to Emily Henry’s other books were great and I just love seeing them and making the connections.

While this is by no means my new favourite Emily Henry book it had all of the key things I love from Emily Henry and was a fun summer read that I couldn’t out down and stayed up late to finish. I don’t think I can rate an Emily Henry romance anything but 5 stars upon first read now and I highly recommend it. I can’t wait to see what her next romance book will be, that hopefully will come out next year.

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