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!
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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.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2021
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!
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!
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Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2019
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Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2019
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.
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2019
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