My Favorite Half-Night Stand by Christina Lauren

Author: Christina Lauren
Title: My Favorite Half-Night Stand
Genre: Contemporary romance
Publisher: Gallery Books

Links: Bokus / Book Depository / Goodreads

Okay, so this book has one of my favorite tropes - friends-to-lovers. When done right, it's can be such a fun and sweet read. In this case, the friends are best friends and have such a great relationship, being comfortable with each other, bantering, caring about one another.
But, this book also has one of my least favorite things - lying. I just don't like it. Especially when there's no real good reason. Like in this case, the woman, Millie, is catfishing the man, Reid. This is not okay and I had trouble with it the entire book.
That said, if I had to read a book about lying and catfishing (and, apparently no one had to put a gun to my head), I'd pick this one. Even though the story is important, I find even more important that I love the characters. Millie had her issues (bad decisions, trust issues, workaholic) but I couldn't help but like her. I would have liked to gotten to know her a bit outside the circle of friends and Reid, though. Reid's a decent, lovely, genuine guy without said issues (except the workaholic part), and we get to know him a lot more than Millie, it feels like. The only secondary characters we get more than a glimpse of are the group of friends, which is okay and just a little boring.

What's up, then? The thing about Christina Lauren is that I'm starting to realize that I love their writing style. I adored Autoboyography. Their characters are funny and great and multifaceted, which gives me warm, fuzzy feelings while reading. I'm definitely reading more from them in the future.

About the audio book - loved the female narrator, had to get used to the male one, though. But eventually it worked out okay.

3.5 misspelled its

/ Denise