Synopsis

By the New York Times bestselling author who “hilariously depicts modern dating” (Us Weekly), My Favorite Half-Night Standis a laugh-out-loud romp through online dating and its many, many fails.

Millie Morris has always been one of the guys. A UC Santa Barbara professor, she’s a female-serial-killer expert who’s quick with a deflection joke and terrible at getting personal. And she, just like her four best guy friends and fellow professors, is perma-single.

So when a routine university function turns into a black tie gala, Mille and her circle make a pact that they’ll join an online dating service to find plus-ones for the event. There’s only one hitch: after making the pact, Millie and one of the guys, Reid Campbell, secretly spend the sexiest half-night of their lives together, but mutually decide the friendship would be better off strictly platonic.

But online dating isn’t for the faint of heart. While the guys are inundated with quality matches and potential dates, Millie’s first profile attempt garners nothing but dick pics and creepers. Enter “Catherine”—Millie’s fictional profile persona, in whose make-believe shoes she can be more vulnerable than she’s ever been in person. Soon “Catherine” and Reid strike up a digital pen-pal-ship…but Millie can’t resist temptation in real life, either. Soon, Millie will have to face her worst fear—intimacy—or risk losing her best friend, forever.

Perfect for fans of Roxanne and She’s the Man, Christina Lauren’s latest romantic comedy is full of mistaken identities, hijinks, and a classic love story with a modern twist. Funny and fresh, you’ll want to swipe right on My Favorite Half-Night Stand.

Review

If you are looking for a book that will make you laugh, then this is one you might want to read. I don’t think I have laughed so hard in quite some time.

Millie and Reid are best friends but are attracted to each other, or at least in an inebriated stated Millie realizes how hot Reid is and starts looking at him in a new light. Reid has always had a thing for Millie but has never acted on those feelings. But this isn’t where the fun really starts…no it starts when they decide they need to find dates to a university function and try their hand at online dating. I should back up and give you some insight into this small group of 5 – Reid, Millie, Chris, Alex, and Ed. They all teach at a CA university and have a close-knit friendship. None of them have a steady so they all sign up for a dating website called IRL. Millie decides that the guy’s profiles say nothing and writes a new one for each of them. However, her profile doesn’t say much and she gets all the weirdos responding to her profile. Unbeknownst to the guys, she creates a new profile for herself using her middle name as her online name and surprisingly (or maybe not) she matches 98% to Reid. At first she thinks that her first reply to him will clue him in that it is her with various references (because the profile picture isn’t going to do it) but of course he doesn’t pick up that it is here…hello, he’s a guy and while smart and intuitive, he is still a guy.

While most of the book is light and funny, it does get somewhat serious when Reid discovers that Millie is who he has been chatting with on IRL. I am sure you can imagine the fallout from that conversation. But is Millie willing to take the risk? Is she willing to open up to Reid about who she is and her background? You’ll have to read the book to find out those details.

I loved the format of the book as it flipped between Millie and Reid’s point of view. Millie has an obsession with serial killers and can be snarky when it comes to her circle of friends. There are group chats within the book which add their own element of humor. As I said before I laughed a LOT in this book and will have to seek out more of her books (once I read more of my TBR pile)

We give it 5 paws up

About the Author(s)

Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners/besties/soulmates/brain-twins Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction and together has produced fourteen New York Times bestselling novels. Their books have been translated into 30+ languages. (Some of these books have kissing. Some of these books have A LOT of kissing.)

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