My Favorite Half-Night Stand

Synopsis: Millie Morris, a criminology professor, is an emotional concrete block. While she tends to keep everyone at a comfortable distance from her personal life, she’s a pretty solid friend. Her best friends, Reid, Chris, Ed & Alex, who all work at the same university as Millie, are used to her emotional distance. Besides, they all share one solid trait: they’re all single af.Enter a fancy gala the university is throwing; Millie & her best guy friends can’t show up alone. So they all make a pact: sign up for the same dating app & find their potential gala date. Simple, right? Theoretically yes, but things become complicated when Millie & Reid spend an ultra steamy night together. Worse yet, after some disappointing initial matches, Millie decides to create a fictional persona - Cat- who just happens to match with Reid. Millie finds it easy to be emotionally open with Reid as Cat, but real world feelings start to complicate everything. Will Millie be able to overcome her intimacy issues before she loses her best friend?Review: I’m fully convinced Christina Lauren can do no wrong. After binging five of their books, I am beyond hooked. My Favorite Half-Night Stand alternates between Millie & Reid’s perspectives, giving the reader a deep look into how each feels as they navigate through steamy hookups & dating app experiences. Each character was developed well; their unique personalities shone off the pages.Although there were times I wanted to just reach in the book & shake some sense into Millie, I did feel for her sense of loneliness. What really stuck with me was this line from Millie: “I’m lonely because I don’t tell people what I need or what I want, and then get hurt when they don’t figure it out on their own” (pg. 236-237). Wow, I’m more like Millie than I’d like to admit.In all, the storyline was solid. You’ll either love Millie or be highly annoyed by her. My advice: give her a chance. I highly recommend this read!

I'll admit I was kind of hesitant to read this book based on the idea of "catfishing" alone. That's never sexy and I couldn't imagine how that would come on across. That being said Christina Lauren is my favorite writing duo, and I do believe that they can't write a bad book, so I dove right in and was so glad for it. I really enjoyed this book. In fact it might be my favorite book of the year of 2019 (starting 2019 off right). It's funny how this is the first time that I can honestly say I loved the male character more than the female character. Reid was my everything. He was sensitive, smart, handsome, genuine and I know that any man or woman wants that in a partner. I couldn't get enough of him. And the group dynamic was such a breath of fresh air. I craved reading about the group and when they finally came around I still couldn't get enough of them. While I'm talking about the group can I just make a request to Christina Lauren to write separate books on Ed, Alex and Chris.? They just felt like such genuine characters who I immediately became enamored with. And I think they deserve their own books so that their stories can be further told. When I got closer to the end of the book I was scared that everything was going to be wrapped up quickly and Reid was going to immediately forgive Millie (which wouldnt have been realistic at all). So I'm so glad that didn't happen. I'm glad Millie had to work for it. While I'm talking about Millie I honestly have to admit that the whole reason why I couldn't decide if this was a four star book or a five star book was because of her. She honestly wasn't my favorite heroine and which I think is because I liked reading from Reid's perspective way more. But I came to like how imperfect she was. She was kind of flawed and couldn't express her feelings and I loved how relatable that is. But then she pulled Reid in and then pushed him out constantly throughout the book which pissed me off and made me hate her again. I really liked that she couldn't express her feelings because of her childhood. I liked that we explored thearpy with her and got to see her express her feelings to Reid overtime and become the person I wanted her to be the whole time. That's why I was so conflicted, I loved her and also kind of hated her alittle. But I don't know overall this book was just so much fun. Can't wait to see what our girls come up with next.

Really happy to add this edition to my collection! I adore Christina Lauren's novels! I wanted to make sure that the edition that I received is the new illustrated cover... and it is! I adore it!

... I like the book. Have read it before and wanted to own it. Kinda bummed it didn't have the new, green cover but just glad it came.

Divertido, interessante, envolvente! A estória se desenvolve com muita engenhosidade, de maneira que o leitor não consegue parar de lê-la. Adorei e recomendo.

I loved the dynamic of the friend group, i loved how the authors tackled the subject of loneliness and finding it hard to open up to others, even to people who care about you.The catfishing part didn't bother me too much because it was called out. I don't give it 5 stars because I could have connected to the main characters more. Sometimes they were a bit frustrating. And there were no real big surprise, it's a classic romance plot. Very enjoyable and quick read though, perfect to relax and escape for a while :)

This the story of a group of friends, four men and a woman in their late twenties/early thirties. They all work at the same university, they are all single, quirky, funny and all of them are nerds in their own kind of way.A few months later there is a big celebration at their University, and they decide that they all need a plus one for that party, so they decide to join a dating app to find their partner. Millie is the one to create everyone's dating profiles, including hers. While all the guys are receiving messages, Millie basically receives dick pics and requests for boobie pics, so she creates a second, secret profile, only known by her. But then, the dating app matches her with Reid, her best friend in the group, just a few days after they had a "half-night stand".Millie is a peculiar person, in the sense that she is smart, funny, and sarcastic, but she doesn't talk about her or her life. Whenever she feels a deep conversation is coming, she deflects and turns to jokes or changes the subject, and all the guys know it. But them, her dating alter ego, Cat, starts having conversations with Reid, the kind she's never had with him in real life, and he starts liking her (Cat).Things get more complicated when Reid is talking to two women in the dating app, Cat and Daisy while having casual sex with Millie and, when he, predictably, notices that Cat is Millie. He gives her the opportunity to confess, but she doesn't. And that's when the best part of the book starts.The first half is funny, and we get to know the five friends quite well. I love their friendship, their interactions and their jokes. And then, the drama unveils, and we see Reid trying to choose which of the three women he should choose: the beautiful one (Daisy), the smart and thoughtful one (Cat), or his best friend (Millie). We follow his thought process, and why he struggles to choose Millie, thinking she can't give him that extra depth he craves in a relationship and that he found in Cat.We get angry with him when Millie doesn't confess to Reid what has happened, and we mourn their break-up, as friends and as casual sex partners.But we also get to see Millie's grovelling, how she grows emotionally with the help of a therapist, until she's able to communicate her feelings and eventually fix the relationship with her family and her friends, including Reid. It's refreshing to find a romance when the one in the wrong is the heroine, and she's the one that has to win the guy back. The angst in the last third of the book made my angst-loving heart happy.I love how every character in this story has a role in it, and it's not just a diverse group of friends that are there because there is a quota that must be filled.