Dating isn’t easy. Online dating really sucks. What’s a girl to do when she’s matched with her best guy friend? Millie’s about to find out! Here’s Christina Lauren’s newest romance, My Favorite Half-Night Stand!
My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren
Rating: 4 out of 5 STARS
{Adult Content; Some Spoilers}
I can always depend on Christina Lauren to provide me with an incredibly swoony romance, and that’s what they did again with My Favorite Half-Night Stand!
Millie and Reid are perfect for each other, but crossing that line would really screw up their friendship. After a half-night stand, they both agree that it won’t happen again and no one in their friend group should ever know. When all of them decide to create dating profiles to find their “plus one” for an event months away, Millie goes a step farther and makes up a different profile for herself.
Of course, she’s matched with Reid.
Instead of following her brain, she follows her heart and starts a conversation with him online. This crosses over with real life because that half-night stand turns into another one, and feelings are starting to grow…
I love the humor and honesty in this novel. Millie’s so relatable to me. She’s very good at closing herself off and keeping everyone at a distance. It’s so much easier being herself when she’s hiding a little, and that’s how she uses the dating app with Reid. Everything she tells him is the truth but behind a veil.
Being Cat was almost fun than being Millie, because I got to have something with Reid that I’ve never had with anyone else before, and I fell in love with him.
I understand Reid’s reaction, too. There’s betrayal and hurt that’s totally understandable.
“I’m just…I’m not good at it.”
“Maybe you’re just not good at being honest.”
Christina Lauren have managed to write a story that’s extremely topical, but it doesn’t look at the situation with rose colored glasses. It explores the issues and allows the characters to come together with communication and without the instant fix.
One of the things I admire so much about this writing duo is their ability to tell a real story, and My Favorite Half-Night Stand is a real story.
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.
Thank you so much to the publisher for an advance copy of this novel!