Book profile
Funny Story
- Subgenre
- romance
- Edition year
- 2024-04-23
- Rating
- ★ 4.2 · 932 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
- Spice
- Heat not verified
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Why these tropes fit
After her fiancé Peter leaves her for his childhood best friend Petra, Daphne ends up stranded in the small lakeside town of Waning Bay, Michigan, where she takes a low-paying children's librarian job and proposes becoming roommates with Petra's ex, the scruffy and chaotic Miles Nowak. Though the two initially avoid each other, they bond over their shared heartbreak, eventually hatching a plan to post deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together to create the appearance of a relationship. As the fake-dating scheme unfolds, Daphne and Miles's carefully maintained distance begins to dissolve, and she questions whether her new chapter might unexpectedly include falling for her ex-fiancé's new fiancée's ex.
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- Fake Dating: “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?” source
- Forced Proximity: “proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra's ex, Miles Nowak” source
- Small Town Romance: “Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan” source
- Grumpy x Sunshine: “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” source
- Slow Burn: “The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan” source
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Content notes
- infidelity
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infidelity: “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” Source
