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?

Funny Story

Daniel Lindquist

"I know i's a cliché he says afer a minute, "but being on the water always does feel like what I imagine church is for some people" "I get that"I say. "Out here youie small and theres no one else around, but you're not lonely ls le youre connected to every- one and everything "Exactly" be says. "And you remember to marvel. Is so easy to forget how incredible the planet is 

Celina Irena Kuhn

I feel Like... Like there's so much space between who I am and who I want to be, and there's no one to show me how to get there. 

And it doesn't really make sense but I thought...maybe If i could get through to your dad, if i could help fix that, than it would prove I'm capable. Of giving you everything you want.

Fatiema 

Life’s short enough without us talking ourselves out of hope and trying to dodge every bad feeling. Sometimes you have to push through the discomfort, instead of running.

kari <33

He loves me. Present tense. And I love him. He knows me, and I see him. 

The same universe that dispassionately takes things away can bring you things you weren't imaginative enough to dream up.

A surprise, as it turns out, is different when it comes from someone who knows and loves you. 

All those moments throughout the days, weeks, months that don't get marked on calendars with hand-drawn stars or little stickers. Those are the moments that make a life. Not grand gestures, but mundane details that, over time, accumulate until you have a home, instead of a house. The things that matter. The things I can't stop longing for.

He tips his face up to look at me. “Are you hungry?”

“Since I met you,” I say, “constantly.”

I see him laugh but can’t hear it, and I feel robbed of the sound.

Life isn’t a competition, and neither is love, but I’m still the loser. 

But it also takes a kind of fearlessness, to invite someone into your space and ask to be invited into theirs. 

This moment, though fleeting, belongs to me too. 

“I know it's a cliché," he says after a minute, "but being on the water always does feel like what I imagine church is for some people.” 

" I get that," I say. "Out here, you're small and there's no one else around but you’re not lonely. It's like youre connected to every- one and everything." 

"Exactly," he says. "And you remember to marvel. It's so easy to forget how incredible this planet is."

“It’s your face, Miles. All that matters is how you feel about it.”

"It's a library, Daphne. If you can't be a human here, where can you?"

There was no point clinging to something that wasn't really yours.

Lisa Weidacher

I didn’t need an I love you or a box of fudge or whatever big plan you had to make it up to me. I don’t even like surprises! None of that stuff matters when you don’t show up for the little things, and if you loved me, you’d know that.”

All those moments throughout the days, weeks, months that don’t get marked on calendars with hand-drawn stars or little stickers. Those are the moments that make a life. Not grand gestures, but mundane details that, over time, accumulate until you have a home, instead of a house. The things that matter

Lindy

But keeping every glimmer of hope out has isolated me too, and I want to be seen. I want to be loved. I want to live with the hope that things can get better, even if, in the end, they don’t. 

But as an adult, I find kids so much easier to understand.

They say how they feel, and they show it too. There are fewer ulterior motives and unwritten rules. Silences aren't unbearably awkward, and abrupt segues to different subjects are the norm. If you want to be friends with someone, you just ask, and if they don't want to, they'll probably just tell you.

"It's not cynical. If you don't give other people responsibility for your feelings, you can have a decent relationship with most of them."

Mara Jane

Y me siento afortunado cada vez que me miras. No porque crea merecerte, sino porque tengo la sensación de que no necesitas que lo haga. Como si… te gustara tal como soy.

Y resulta que una sorpresa es distinta cuando procede de alguien que te conoce y te quiere.

No es cinismo. Si no responsabilizas a los demás de tus sentimientos, puedes tener una relación decente con casi todo el mundo.

Emily Henry, my love, she did it again. She makes me laugh and cry and feel so deeply. No one does love stories like she does, it's just so wonderfully real, but with a bit of magic. 

Valentina

esme villanueva

Claire Mortensen

Paige Paul

Emily Henry has a way with words. Adored this book to bits!

madreadz⟢

I think miles and me share a few brain cells 

Levi-Mae 

Emily Henry is always so successful at writing immensely intimate characters that are so human and real that I can’t help but feel her heart being poured into this.

Daphne and Miles are two broken people that aren’t quite broken but are picking up the pieces along the way, helping each other find them. And they do find themselves. By themselves, for themselves, with each other, and for each other. 

Let’s ignore the fact that I couldn’t stop crying for the last few chapters (I love feeling emotions deeply 🤩)

sophie <3

Emily Henry is always so successful at writing immensely intimate characters that are so human and real that I can’t help but feel her heart being poured into this.

Daphne and Miles are two broken people that aren’t quite broken but are picking up the pieces along the way, helping each other find them. And they do find themselves. By themselves, for themselves, with each other, and for each other. 

Let’s ignore the fact that I couldn’t stop crying for the last few chapters (I love feeling emotions deeply 🤩)

Loved it! Absent father figure hitted a bit too close to home but otherwise it was very good! The characters reminded me a bit of Nick and Jess from New Girl :) 

Marie

I dunno I’m not sold on EH - this was my first by her and honestly it might be my last. 

It’s just soooooo predicable? I dunno it just was overall okay 

Brittany Peterson

I dunno I’m not sold on EH - this was my first by her and honestly it might be my last. 

It’s just soooooo predicable? I dunno it just was overall okay 

I’ve heard that people rave about Emily Henry’s writing but have never read anything by her before. I went into this book with no expectations or preconceptions, I didn’t even read the blurb, and to say I was blown away is an understatement. 

The feeling I got reading this book is EXACTLY the feeling you want to have when reading a romanic comedy. This felt like summer. The flow of the book just left me wanting more after even the first few pages. 

Daphne and Miles’ relationship in my opinion had the perfect level of suspense and tension that made you want more without feeling frustrated, making their romance feel fresh and exciting. I was honestly rooting for them both the whole way through. I also felt the side characters were well fleshed out and added so much dimension to the story. 

This book was tense, feel good, hot and emotional all at once. Emily Henry… 👏 and I will be picking up everything you have written. 

Eimear O'Connor 

TLDR - I absolutely adored this. 

I’ve heard that people rave about Emily Henry’s writing but have never read anything by her before. I went into this book with no expectations or preconceptions, I didn’t even read the blurb, and to say I was blown away is an understatement. 

The feeling I got reading this book is EXACTLY the feeling you want to have when reading a romanic comedy. This felt like summer. The flow of the book just left me wanting more after even the first few pages. 

Daphne and Miles’ relationship in my opinion had the perfect level of suspense and tension that made you want more without feeling frustrated, making their romance feel fresh and exciting. I was honestly rooting for them both the whole way through. I also felt the side characters were well fleshed out and added so much dimension to the story. 

This book was tense, feel good, hot and emotional all at once. Emily Henry… 👏 and I will be picking up everything you have written. 

I struggled to read this but that’s because I was thinking too shallow of the book. As I read towards the end, as the remaining pages get thinner, I slowly realise the depth and the beauty of it– not that all the good stuff is at the end, but I definitely enjoyed reading through the pages. 

It truly is a “funny story”, and everything else makes sense. I’ve fallen in love, and I am touched. 

Emily Henry did good on this one! Plus one for the chai loving fmc! 

❕3.75 stars, only because I struggled… but please give this book a chance!

I struggled to read this but that’s because I was thinking too shallow of the book. As I read towards the end, as the remaining pages get thinner, I slowly realise the depth and the beauty of it– not that all the good stuff is at the end, but I definitely enjoyed reading through the pages. 

It truly is a “funny story”, and everything else makes sense. I’ve fallen in love, and I am touched. 

Emily Henry did good on this one! Plus one for the chai loving fmc! 

❕3.75 stars, only because I struggled… but please give this book a chance!

Daphne always loved the way Peter told their story.

That is until it became the prologue to his actual love story with his childhood bestie, Petra.

Which is how Daphne ends up rooming with her total opposite and the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra's ex, Miles.

As expected, it’s not a match made in heaven – that is until one night, while tossing back tequilas, they form a plan.

And if it involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their 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?

easy peasy read with not much soul or substance. Uncanny that I started this book whilst on my own hen’s holiday considering the start of the book. 

Samantha Waterson

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?

she did it again. emily henry managed to break my heart and put it back together again with this book. i loved it so much.

Keira

Talvez eu tenha terminado esse livro num momento que to estressada demais, irritada, literalmente um dia complicado e ele tenha ficado pior do que deveria ser. Mas, no geral, achei enrolado demais e cansativo de tanta coisa desnecessária. Talvez dê um bom filme mas não necessariamente foi um livro proveitoso e a encheção de linguiça me tirou a paciência (considerando que eu já tava sem nenhuma)

Larissa Campos

I needed a cute quick read after the acotar series, and this was an amazing choice. It kept me entertained and I really enjoyed the characters. I loved seeing Daphne and Miles's relationship turn from roommates to friends to partners. I loved all the jokes in this book, and I found myself laughing multiple times. I felt like the third-act breakup wasn't totally unbelievable and I liked the parallel between that and Daphne's friendship with Ashleigh. I love all of Emily Henry's books and I would totally read this again!

Maggie Hotmer

The book is way too long for my liking. The plot got better in the end but it got dragged for longer than needed. Other than that it is a cute read.

Alisha

Good old fashioned chick lit with a happy ending!

Cherine Fok

Kassidy May Gaudet

i love u enough not to want to let you go 

I LOVED this book. At first, I was mad that it won the best romantic book over "Just for the summer", but it was really good. 

Peter was the kind of toxic person who doesn't appear so, he didn't love her to show her the town, to try new things with Daphne, on the other hand, Miles wanted her to love the town, made real effort for her, healed her with his love. He walked every extra mile, she didn't even ask him to walk. The book also talked about family issues, and how the lack of loving parent can affect how we receive love, how we expect people to let us down, how it could mess up our life, just because we have been for our parents to love us enough.

Monica Faez

I LOVED this book. At first, I was mad that it won the best romantic book over "Just for the summer", but it was really good. 

Peter was the kind of toxic person who doesn't appear so, he didn't love her to show her the town, to try new things with Daphne, on the other hand, Miles wanted her to love the town, made real effort for her, healed her with his love. He walked every extra mile, she didn't even ask him to walk. The book also talked about family issues, and how the lack of loving parent can affect how we receive love, how we expect people to let us down, how it could mess up our life, just because we have been for our parents to love us enough.



First ever "romance" book. This book was easy to read and I really loved the characters! Fella's if your wife wants you to read this swallow your toxic masculinity and read this! 

Rodney Crawford

Hätte nicht gedacht das die Story mir gefallen würde, auch die Charaktere wachsen einem anderen Herz und sind sehr realistisch und man kann sich mit ihnen identifizieren. Die liebes Geschichte war auch voll cute. 

Mariam Raji

Hab es als Hörbuch gehört. 

Hätte nicht gedacht das die Story mir gefallen würde, auch die Charaktere wachsen einem anderen Herz und sind sehr realistisch und man kann sich mit ihnen identifizieren. Die liebes Geschichte war auch voll cute. 

Will mehr von Emily Henry lesen xd 

My first book written by Emily Henry, whilst the storyline is somewhat predictable, a well written book that had me constantly wanting to read more. 

Tane B

One thing I like about Emily Henry books is the main character’s relationships with other people. I fear I have grown beyond her books, but thank you for getting me back into reading 

Funny Story

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