my favorite half night stand // christina lauren

published: 2018

pages: 384

heard: 7/30/2019

book: 49 in 2019

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 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

MY THOUGHTS

i wouldn't necessarily say that im very interested in back tracking all of their books especially given that i was bit of a fan of their last book that happened to be my first CL read. ....its just that it was available for listen like RIGHT away through my library app and i was looking for something so i was like....why not?

* deep breath *

you wanna know what i loved about this book?

all of the dudes.

and how they were all friends.

i loved their friendships. i loved the idea of a group of guys just being as close as they were. i loved any scene that involved the 4 of them.

i however, did not care for Millie.

its not that i didn't care for her. its just that she proved to be a dick to me for all that she did that i don't care for her at all.

if actions speak louder than words, this bitch be yellin'.

it all started with the need of a date for idk what and it just ballooned into what it turned into.

i personally am a HUGE believer that if you start off with lies, YOU CANNOT get mad when a person opens up and causes you pain because YOU STARTED IT and well, can you guess what Millie did? lie, lie, L I E.

fuck it, ill say it. fuck Millie.

this isn't a one star read because it had its good parts but its definitely a never read again type of deal because i just couldn't handle how whiny she was.
its been 3 months and i still fell this way about it.

Millie doing what she did killed it for me.

eh, oh well.

it was a free listen so I'm not mad. it was a good way to pass the day at work quick.

READ this review to get a more in depth overlook of the book and to see why i didn't care for Mills. (no spoilers on my end cause its all on that link above. well not all but like the bigger parts).

thanks for reading!