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My Favourite Half-Night Stand

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'Stop what you are doing and go get Christina Lauren's My Favourite Half-Night Stand!' That's Normal

The perfect friends to lovers romcom from the bestselling queen of romcoms, Christina Lauren!

Millie has always been one of the guys. A professor at a respected university, she's great at witty backchat but terrible at getting personal. Like her four best male friends, she's perma-single. So when a routine university function turns into a black tie gala, they all make a pact to join an online dating service and find plus-ones.

There's just one hitch: after making the pact, Millie and her best friend Reid secretly spend the sexiest half-night of their lives together, before deciding the friendship is better off strictly platonic.

But online dating isn't for the faint of heart. While the guys are inundated with dream dates, Millie's profile attracts nothing but creeps. So she invents an alter ego in whose make-believe shoes she can be more vulnerable than she's ever been in person. But when Reid and her alter ego hit it off, Millie finds herself struggling to resist temptation - both online and off. Soon, Millie will have to face her worst fear - intimacy - or risk losing her best friend for ever.

Find out why readers LOVE Christina Lauren:

'Pure, irresistible magic from start to finish' Emily Henry

'Witty and downright hilarious . . . perfect feel-good romantic comedy' Helen Hoang

'Pure joy' Sally Thorne

'What a joyful, warm, touching book! This is the book to read if you want to smile so hard your face hurts' Jasmine Guillory

'A sexy, hilarious rom-com . . . Perfect for fans of Jasmine Guillory and Sally Thorne' Booklist

'Christina Lauren hilariously depicts modern dating' Us Weekly

Critics Review

Yet again, Christina Lauren offer up a delectable, moving take on modern dating with My Favourite Half-Night Stand, reminding us all that when it comes to intoxicating, sexy, playful romance that has its finger on the pulse of contemporary love this duo always swipes right
Entertainment Weekly
Lauren's delicious newest standalone rom-com... is a messy and sexy look at digital dating that feels fresh and exciting
Publishers Weekly
A hilarious and heartfelt portrayal of modern dating, My Favourite Half-Night Stand will sweep rom-com fans off their feet
Bustle
What happens if you catfish your best guy friend? Christina Lauren's My Favourite Half-Night Stand imagines the results
Cosmopolitan
[It's] worth pulling an all-nighter to see if Reid and Millie will graduate from friends to lovers. A funny, sexy page-turner that warns: Keep your friends close and their avatars closer
Kirkus Reviews
Christina Lauren is back with the perfect book to binge-read over the holiday break. My Favourite Half-Night Stand is the writing duo's best romantic comedy of a read yet
HelloGiggles
If you want to feel happy for a bit, you should read Christina Lauren (aka Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings, aka the queens of romance). Their latest, My Favourite Half-Night Stand, reads like a classic rom-com . . . It's so charming, so funny, and so fun - what better way to spend the holidays?
BuzzFeed
Expect plenty of [witty] back-and-forth in Christina Lauren's My Favourite Half-Night Stand, when a professor makes a pact to find a date via an online matchmaking service
Library Journal
A funny, irreverent romp, My Favourite Half-Night Stand is a witty look at the perils of online dating . . . a new book by Christina Lauren on the nightstand is sure to make any romance reader happy
Shelfawareness.com
My Favourite Half-Night Stand is a fun, sexy, emotional, thought-provoking look at male-female friendships and how hard it can be to allow yourself to be totally vulnerable with someone you care about. I was totally invested in this story from start to finish
It’s Either Sadness or Euphoria
My Favourite Half-Night Stand is a fun, contemporary romance that pulls out all the stops to keep you turning those steamy pages filled with humour that will have you laughing along the way. Another winner, I loved it!
Fresh Fiction
Anyone who's suffered through the ups and downs of online dating will appreciate this fun, frothy rom-com about a couple of professors trying to find love
Smarter Travel
Lauren explores the ups and downs of online dating in a story packed with memorable characters and a relatable heroine who is learning that it's okay to be vulnerable. CLo's done it again, readers
Bookish
Very rarely do we read about such genuine friendships forming within the scope of adulthood, and My Favourite Half-Night Stand is a celebration of finding friends who may not have been part of your formative years and bound by your shared history, but they like the person you've evolved into
Book Riot
Stop what you are doing and go get Christina Lauren's My Favourite Half-Night Stand!
That's Normal
Author Christina Lauren
Narrator Deacon Lee, Shayna Thibodeaux
Duration 7 hours and 9 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781405556873
Format x-book®
Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
Genre Contemporary romance
Availability AU, GB, IE

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