My Favorite Half-Night Stand

Can men and women ever truly be ‘just friends’?  And what happens if you give in to one glorious night of temptation?  

That’s exactly what My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren tackles, along with the added twist of online dating thrown in.

My Favorite Half-Night Stand Summary

Mille and Reid are best friends and professors at the same school.  Even though they are social, they’ve never really thought of one another as a potential love interest.  They get along well and have chemistry, so why not?  

After an ill-advised alcohol-induced ‘half-night stand’, Millie and Reid have to navigate the pitfalls of best friends crossing the line into more and trying to maintain their relationship with each other as well as the guys within their circle.

Reid is an easy-going guy looking for more than just a superficial relationship and Millie is a closed book when it comes to anything personal.  When the group decides that they need to find dates for a university event, they turn to the world of online dating.  

Instead of giving their budding physical relationship a go, Reid and Millie agree to try to find a potential love interest through an app.  And herein lies the problem—Reid and Millie don’t necessarily want to date other people, but they can’t figure out if their relationship will work in the long run.

Smart Writing and Quirky Characters

While I enjoyed most of My Favorite Half-Night Stand, I have to be honest and say that it isn’t my favorite CLo book ever.  

After the utterly amazing Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating (read my review here), I feel like my expectations were set at an all-time high and it’s hard to say whether that influenced my overall feelings for Millie and Reid. 

I despise the idea of catfishing a friend and that’s essentially what Millie does to poor, unassuming Reid.  I totally understand that Millie is emotionally stunted, but that seemed low even for her.

In short, the writing is stellar as usual and the characters as quirky as ever, so I really wish I could have overlooked the problems I had with the lying (and then continuing to lie) to your so-called best friend(s). 

I know that I’m in the minority with this opinion, so I highly recommend checking out Half-Night Stand and deciding for yourself.