Usually when I read an Emily Henry story, it starts with me feeling ‘meh’ in the beginning but slowly it builds up and I fall in love with the characters and their journey. In ‘Funny Story’ the opposite happened. I liked Daphne and Miles right from the start. But gradually all that fizzled out and I could see them only as the ‘issues’ they have with their parents being major baboons. And I get it, that sometimes all we are is what have not managed to get in life. And I felt somehow that was what Daphne’s personality was - being left out. Abandonment is not an uncommon theme in romance genre. Still I will say that I liked how Emily Henry built the story around it. There are parts of the book I loved a lot. The friendships, the side characters, the whole thing of not getting absorbed into a relationship and trying to be ‘I’ amidst a ‘We’ thing. Emily Henry always has something new to offer. I just don’t know why I couldn’t connect to these characters this time. And no one feels more sad about it than me.