this book was SO freaking cute. I absolutely loved it. The characters were MY friends and Reid and Millie's friendship was absolute perfection.

I was instantly drawn to this book because the main character is a criminologist and it's a romance, so what more could I want! The beginning was a little rocky for me, not because I didn't like it but because it was just so different than how most modern romance books start out, but I definitely enjoyed it once I got into it. I loved Millie as a character, for once the conflict between the two romantic leads felt incredibly realistic and not just something stupid to cause them to split up before the big finale. I loved getting a look inside both of the character's heads and thought the author did a great job of building a full, rich life around them. The ending was good, but of course it left me wanting to know more about their lives together, but it's that what a good book is suppose to do?

Reason I picked up the book: I'm a huge Christina Lauren fan, and it sounded super cute.
And what's this book about?
From the New York Times bestselling author that “hilariously depicts modern dating” (Us Weekly) comes a sexy romantic comedy about online dating, and its many, many fails.

With a world-famous speaker at their university, Millie Morris and her four woefully single male colleagues make a pact that they’ll all find dates. Unfortunately, Millie has more success helping them make matches online than she does navigating the onslaught of lewd pics in her own feed. But when she creates a fictional name for a new account, Millie finds herself vying for the online attention of a man she sees every day in the flesh.
Recommended for: Anyone who likes chick lit, or who has navigated online dating before.
Favorite paragraph: I'm the kind of tipsy where I should want to hug everyone, not pull my best friend's pants down.

GAH.

Strictly platonic best guy friend. Strictly platonic best guy friend.

Heat rushes to my face and I stand so quickly my chair teeters on its back legs. Four sets of curious eyes swing in my direction, and I turn, making a beeline for the bathroom.
Something to know: You'll probably figure out the HEA before you get to the end of the book, but it was still enjoyable to read.
What I would have changed: Nothing.
Overall rating: 4.5 stars out of 5.
Where can I find this book? Click here to purchase on Amazon - this book will be in stores and online on December 4, 2018.

CL had had an amazing year!!!! I have loved both of the books that I have read this year, CL is fast becoming on of my go to authors. My Favorite Half-Night Stand is no different. The dynamics between friend is AMAZING! The Dating App drama is LOL funny!

✨ ARC provided by @gallerybooks in exchange for an honest review ✨
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I LOVED the premise of My Favorite Half-Night Stand. Millie, a criminology professor at UC Santa Barbara, and her four platonic male best friends and colleagues, need to find dates for an upcoming event. After a drunken “half-night stand” with Reid, Millie starts to question how platonic her feelings really are and agrees to join the boys in signing up for an online dating app. Unfortunately for Millie, she’s better at writing the profiles for her best friends than she is at making her own. Her life gets more complicated when she makes a new profile under a different name and matches with one of her best friends.
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This is definitely a rom-com with some emotion, but I loved being along for the ride as Millie tries to work through her flaws and her feelings for one of her best friends. I’ll admit it, I definitely cried during parts of this one, vulnerable characters always make me emotional (and Christina Lauren are DAMN GOOD at writing flawed but lovable characters). But I honestly adored everything about this book! I loved the awkwardness of educated characters in their thirties trying to navigate the world of online dating, and in an academic setting? Yes please!
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This was an easy 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read for me (as most of their books are!) and I highly recommend grabbing this one when it comes out on December 4th!

Well, this was fun. Totally a reworking of Pride and Prejudice, like a more modern, flip flopped version of You've Got Mail. Nostalgia runs rampant even though it feels totally "modern".
Millie and Reid are part of a group of friends, professors at UC Santa Barbara. Each of them needs a date for commencement so they all sign up for a dating app. Hilarity as matchmaking snafus ensue.

Not my favorite Christina Lauren book, but it was a good read. A fun look at online dating with a few serious issues, but for the most part this book was a lighthearted read.

Christina and Lauren deliver once again! In their signature conversational style, this was a delightfully entertaining read. What happens when four friends decide to take to a dating site to find dates? They find that the world is smaller than they think! Sometimes you don't have to look far to find your perfect match. This book delivers all the feels.
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I did not love this book. I didn't hate it either, the love story was enough to keep me reading. Overall it just didn't wow me or make me heart go pitter patter. I will say dating in the digital age is so crazy!

The story cute and if you don't go in with your hopes too high you'll enjoy it!

I think this is my favorite Christina Lauren book yet! The characters were real, the situation, while a little overly complicated, was funny. And the resolution was believable; which always makes me happy in a romance!

I really love Christina Lauren's romances. They are fun, funny and very relatable. I loved that Millie really struggled with expressing her emotions and that Reid showed his emotions. . .

This was fun, quick, light read. Millie and her four best friends (all men) decide to join a dating app to find dates for commencement at the university they all work at. I liked the flip of traditional “male” and “female” characteristics. It was a little light on the romance (I categorize Christina Lauren as a romance author in my head), and in the moment that bugged me a little, but after finishing the book and sitting with it for a while I can see why the book is like and why it had to be like that for the characters development. It isn’t my favorite Christina Lauren book that has come out this year, but I still enjoyed it and it is very easy to read.

With My Favorite Half-Night Stand, Christina Lauren has hit a sweet spot in their writing, coupling the sexy rom-com they're known for with more emotionally weighty topics. Wrapped into a look at the crazy, shady that is online dating, My Favorite Half-Night Stand ventures into themes like forgiveness, empathy and emotional intelligence. It's still sexy, but I'm loving the evolution of their work beyond the light side of romance and would love to see them do more in women's fiction.

In this friends-to-lovers romance, Millie and Reid are the most developed of the characters, but Lauren has also created the framework for what could be a pretty entertaining series. The university backdrop is ripe for exploration, and I was hoping for more online dating horror stories from their friends Ed and Alex.

Fingers crossed.

Christina Lauren takes on the friends-to-lovers trope in a new way. Combining current trends in online dating and a group of friends looking for dates we get <i>My Favorite Half-Night Stand</i> in a big and hilarious story. The camaraderie between this friends group was perfect and the tension between the two main characters who start feeling more was palpable. It made for a fun, relaxing romance.

The story started off really strong for me. In the middle thought it stalled out a bit though. Dialogue become a lot and the back and forth of what happened in the plot became a little cumbersome and a bit cheesy to a point. It held me back from really loving the story but not from truly enjoying it. The writing team of Christina Lauren always pulls readers to the connections of people through lasting friendship and the overwhelming love through those friendships. It's a favorite of mine to see two friends become more while navigating how to maintain that friendship within a new context. The tension and hilarity with which these authors connect those elements is always a satisfying and romantic read. Additionally, it's an easy read in which you feel eager to continue and finish.

A romantic comedy where friendship abounds and the writing keeps you attuned to the story as you feel a small part of this friends group - that's what you'll find in this newest release from Christina Lauren. <i>My Favorite Half-Night Stand</i> is as fun as it is important in showing the true meaning of understanding, friendship, forgiveness, and coming into one's true self.

This is my second Christina Lauren book and I continue to fall more and more in love with them. I have already added a couple more to my shelves and cannot wait to read them. These books always seem to be the perfect, sweet, romance novel that I need at the right time.

My Favorite Half-Night Stand focuses on Millie a professor of Criminology with a good group of guy friends. They have a faculty event coming up in which they all need dates and they propose the idea of using a dating app. When Millie makes her account under her middle name she ends up matching with one of her best friends. He has no idea that she is the person he has connected with online. Where will this lead their friendship and could it possible turn into a relationship?

In this fun and entertaining book you will end up rooting for all of the characters to end up with happiness. This is such a great fun and light read that is the perfect break from creepy Halloween reads or deeper fall fiction reads.

I was really looking forward to reading this book. I’m excited I got a chance to read it early. It’s a really cute and fun friends to lovers story. The friends are hilarious. There are some plot lines that make me second guess the characters but I reminded myself to buy into the mystery.
It’s a fun book.

This was a quick read for me, and was also my first Christina Lauren book. I thought the concept was interesting, and started off fine, but the execution fell a little flat for me. I think maybe the facade drug on a little too long, or maybe I just couldn't believe Millie was so strong in every facet of her life but could not really expose any deep part of herself to her friends? I get that she wouldn't have many (if any) female friends, but it seems like these guys would know more about her just inherently from seeing her so much over the years. That was really my issue here, the rest was fine.

Now the ending?? Ah-mazing. I am not ashamed to admit I was in tears, and just loved loved loved it. I figured I knew how it would go, and it pretty much did go that way, but in much more of an epic way than I thought. That alone was worth it. I don't have a problem recommending this one, as I think there are plenty of folks who will disagree with my thoughts above and love everything about this book, and that's okay. I will definitely be reading more of their books though, that is for sure!

Pub date is December 4, 2018. Thank you to NetGalley for an electronic ARC of this book to review. All opinions above are my own.

Last night I said I'll just finish this chapter and go to sleep... and we laugh and laugh. More than 2 hours later and I was still reading. I had to force myself to stop if I wanted at least some sleep before going to work. This book felt so easy to read. It's a big mess up were the little lie that opens the door for Millie to show more of her feelings, also snowballs into alter egos, and more lies, and secrets and many other things. But thank God Reid is a man full of patience and forgiveness. after all, he is her best friend. This book is full of fun easy going characters and good friends that really care for one another. A friend to friends with benefits to lovers kind of story. One were friends become family.

Funny and sexy. The authors handle the manic pixie dream girl trope in a very realistic and relatable way. There is a lot of depth to the characters and story without sacrificing the fun and humor. Depth doesn't need to mean angst and drama as the authors expertly show.

Millie and Reid will be all yours December 4th!

Whenever I need to find a reading pick-me-up I always head straight for anything written by Christina Lauren. Funny being my first thought and endearing being the latter.

My Favorite Half-Night Stand has firmly planted itself on my “perfect reads” shelf without even trying! Millie and her four uproariously funny male best friends bring down the house with their lovable antics. Each of these guys has a rye sense of humor, as different as they are alike, with a thread of sincerity that makes them instantly likable. Only… one of the four has a little something extra. Reid. One half drunken night changes things and when this group makes a pact to online date.... Well… things get complicated.

Laughter, tears and unwavering friendship makes My Favorite Half-Night Stand a perfect read! AND an even better stocking stuffer for the upcoming holidays.