My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren | REVIEW!!!

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Synopsis:

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, Millie and her circle make a pact that they'll join and 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 first 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.

 About CL:

Christina Lauren is the combined penname of longtime writing partners/best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, the New York Time, USA TODAY, and #1 International Bestselling authors of The Beautiful and Wild Seasons series, Dating You/Hating You, Roomies, Love and Other Words, Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating, and the critically acclaimed Autoboyography. 

My Review:

This has been a good year for Christina Lauren. I am grateful to have received advanced copies of every Christina Lauren this year. I have really enjoyed all of them… but this one I have to say didn’t fall into my favorite.

When two friends decide to take their friendship to the next level after a night of drinking, feelings that they have been baring for a long time comes to the surface. But then when they decide to join a dating website, knowing what happened to them can’t happen again, they make dating profiles and start talking to new people. But when one of them aren’t completely telling the truth, all shit goes down. One thing I really wish we got to see is the big work party. That is kind of completely forgotten... given that is the reason they decide to sign up for the online dating, to find a date to this big deal work party. I was a little disappointed. 

It was enjoyable, I really liked the main male character. But the female, Millie, she was a wishy washy character. She lied and when she had time after time to bring the truth to the light, she didn’t. I feel like I had liked her at times, but when she continued to lie, I got a bit annoyed. Millie is nothing like Hazel from Josh and Hazel’s Guide to not Dating, the last release from Christina Lauren.

Side note, I am not a fan of the synopsis for this book because I feel it gives way too much away, hence why I don't ever read the synopsis, I love the element of surprise, going into a book blind and being completely shocked and surprised. Sometimes I go by the author, if I have read something by that author and have liked their work in the past, then I just assume I will like it. 

I really enjoyed the ending, I liked how everything wrapped up. There was drama, as always. But because of how I didn’t love Millie, I had to knock off a star. It was a strong, at times funny story and I look forward to see what Christina Lauren has to come in the new year. When you need something funny, fast but has that kick of drama to spice it up, then a Christina Lauren book is for you.

4 Owls.