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Funny Story Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Emily Henry (Author), Julia Whelan (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)
Amazon Charts #14 this week
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AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

Named a Most Anticipated book of 2024 by TIME ∙ The New York Times ∙ Goodreads ∙ Entertainment Weekly ∙ Today ∙ Paste ∙ SheReads ∙ BookPage ∙ Woman's World ∙ The Nerd Daily and more!

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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  1. Listening Length
    11 hours and 23 minutes
  2. Author
    Emily Henry
  3. Narrator
    Julia Whelan
  4. Audible release date
    April 23 2024
  5. Language
    English
  6. Publisher
    Penguin Audio
  7. ASIN
    B0CCPR492B
  8. Version
    Unabridged
  9. Program Type
    Audiobook
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This is the first book that I’ve read by this author and it was soo good! I honestly couldn’t put it down. I get bored easily with books, but this was definitely a page turner.
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5.0 out of 5 stars this is for the girlies with divorced parents and a complex relationship with their father
Reviewed in Canada on June 20, 2024
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I loved this book. I didn’t expect to love it as much as I did. Very charming, sweet, and funny with just enough drama to keep you going. Parts felt cheesy and there’s a plot point literally from a Gilmore Girls episode but honestly it’s a quick read that felt very comforting.
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mstlove
4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great
Reviewed in Canada on May 17, 2024
Funny Story by Emily Henry was a good book but just didn’t grab me the way I had hoped it would. It was very very hyped up. So many people in the book community waiting for the release, and while it was good.. cute.. I don’t think I’ll really think about it again. I’d recommend it if you’re trying to read her backlist but otherwise it was .. good.
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mstlove
4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not great
Reviewed in Canada on May 17, 2024
Funny Story by Emily Henry was a good book but just didn’t grab me the way I had hoped it would. It was very very hyped up. So many people in the book community waiting for the release, and while it was good.. cute.. I don’t think I’ll really think about it again. I’d recommend it if you’re trying to read her backlist but otherwise it was .. good.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Easy and fun read!
Reviewed in Canada on June 27, 2024
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I haven’t read a book in forever and this was the perfect book to get me back into it! It was a real page turner!
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Christine Desjardins
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Summer Read
Reviewed in Canada on June 19, 2024
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It’s funny, witty and full of that romance we yearn from an Emily Henry book. Book came promptly on release day and was no bent or searched. Pristine condition
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CPmytown
5.0 out of 5 stars fun read
Reviewed in Canada on May 21, 2024
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I looked forward to flipping each page, to keep on reading . Every page read I thought, “please, let this work out for her”.
Just a fun and enjoyable read.
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HJ
3.0 out of 5 stars still good but not my favourite EmHem;
Reviewed in Canada on April 26, 2024
At this stage in the game I don’t think any fans of this author actually need to know what tropes are going to show up in the next/latest release however if you’re looking for a summary, here you go : fake dating, for revenge (ish), opposites attract, they are also roommates.

Honestly, beyond the fact that it’s an EmHem — so of course I was desperate for this — I was drawn in with the “love interest is Nick Miller coded” pitch and while I wouldn’t say that’s wrong, Miles is definitely not as Nick Miller-y is I would’ve expected. Which, sorry to say, was kind of a bummer. But I got over it as things went on because Miles seemed to be a literal darling. Pure sunshine (though not without a little stormcloud tagging along for some depth). You could almost be fooled into thinking this was also a grumpy x sunshine trope except Daphne wasn’t actually grumpy, just reserved, practical, a little closed off under her armour, and took time to warm up. And not without cause, either. And it was their earlier interactions that had me thinking that, despite how things started off, this would be all rom and com and no angst at all and would, actually, be a funny story. Because there I was laughing and kicking my feet and loving the ride.

Until maybe the magic started to wear off a bit and I realized there was a little less substance, a few less layers, no real plot beyond some vibes (normally not a problem for me in a romance if I can get behind the characters, except..), and, worst of all, I found myself actually a little confused about who these characters really were when I wasn’t being told, over and over again, who they should be.

In abstract, in concept, it all works so well. And in some moments, if you treated it like a vignette, it was perfect because this author’s writing, her setting, it’s all so good. Great, even. As is usually the case with her characters, too. But in this case, for FUNNY STORY on a whole, with all things combined? It doesn’t fully track.

And also there was the fact that riiight around the 75% mark — and sure you might (rightly) assume that’s around the third act break-up and so that’s usually where things fall apart — I just found there was more than usual happening which sort’ve made sense considering the mess everything was, but then (t h e n) something happened that I absolutely did not love. I think your mileage will vary with this one but I was pretty annoyed that the author had some side characters make a certain choice and wish it had been left alone. Also, whereas normally I love a good EmHem confessional love monologue, these ones felt a touch too extra.. though maybe it was just because I was trying to settle back into the characterization I had lost beforehand. Or maybe it was just a little too rushed and pacey near the end. Maybe all of the above.

But everything outside of these things? The early fun? The (noticing a trend) early tension? The small town vibes? So good. Even this, my lowest rated EmHem ever, is still a really good read because this woman can w r i t e. I just wish the end had been as good as the start.
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Toni
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2024
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This is the first book that I’ve read by this author and it was soo good! I honestly couldn’t put it down. I get bored easily with books, but this was definitely a page turner.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in Canada on May 11, 2024
This is the first book that I’ve read by this author and it was soo good! I honestly couldn’t put it down. I get bored easily with books, but this was definitely a page turner.
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Elizabeth
2.0 out of 5 stars Reçu avec la couverture déchirée
Reviewed in Canada on May 2, 2024
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Déçue de la qualité de la livraison.
Toutefois, j’ai hâte de me plonger dans la lecture du roman.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Reçu avec la couverture déchirée
Reviewed in Canada on May 2, 2024
Déçue de la qualité de la livraison.
Toutefois, j’ai hâte de me plonger dans la lecture du roman.
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Aaron
1.0 out of 5 stars .
Reviewed in Mexico on May 25, 2024
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el libro me llegó con la portada rota
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1.0 out of 5 stars .
Reviewed in Mexico on May 25, 2024
el libro me llegó con la portada rota
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Kirsten Schlichting
5.0 out of 5 stars Mal wieder ein Hit!
Reviewed in Germany on July 7, 2024
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Emily Henry can do no wrong (außer happy place lol)
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A. W. Skinner
5.0 out of 5 stars Unexpectedly well-written, humorous and uplifting.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 4, 2024
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I am a 74 year-old man, who was looking for a change of literary genre, after a series of really disappointing books by big name authors. I googled something like "best upcoming books for 2024" and found this, along with several other names with which I was unfamiliar. When I started reading it, I groaned and thought "this sounds like one of those cheesy Canadian films that somehow make it to Netflix". However, I persevered and found myself completely drawn into the book, by the quality of the writing, the gentle humour, the well-drawn characters, and a general sense of optimism. In the desperately depressing world in which we are currently living, I strongly recommend this to uplift the soul.
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Toñin
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy buena compra
Reviewed in Spain on July 4, 2024
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Llego a tiempo y era lo que quería
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S.
2.0 out of 5 stars Missed opportunities
Reviewed in Belgium on June 27, 2024
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I seem to have a love-hate relationship with Emily Henry's books. This one falls more on the negative side of that spectrum. It's marketed as fake dating, yet the fake dating basically stops at aprox. chapter 5. So I felt bamboozled. I also don't buy these two MCs loving each other and there was no gratification for the main plot. I just read a few hundred pages of trauma dumping with a watered down romance that could've been hilarious with a revenge plot, but alas, the author didn't go that way.
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