Don't be fooled by the cover of this one. What I expected to be a light and airy read was much deeper - but still great. McFarlene is a great writer and managed to weave humor in some difficult topics. Don't expect a light and fun romance but something much deeper and this will be a great read!

I started reading this book in 2021 when it was released and ended up DNFing it. Since then, I’ve had zero desire to pick it up, so I’m calling it! I just didn’t care for the dynamic between the characters. The whole pining in the beginning just wasn’t working for me and it really bothered me that her supposed best friend betrayed her like she did. Since I didn’t finish the book, I will not be rating it or reviewing it on my platforms. Thank you for the opportunity to read and review though!

I appreciate the ability to send a rating and review for this title. It gave me Grease vibes and I love that.

I received this book complimentary from NetGalley but all opinions are my own.

I just am not a Mhairi Mcfarlane fan. I don’t know exactly what it is but I just don’t get pulled into her stories. I feel bored with them fairly quickly and they take me forever to read unless I force myself to just finish it. This is totally a personal issue though.

More in the fiction with romantic elements category, this high drama tale set across the pond focuses on a group of 30-somethings for whom trivia night is sacred. Eve has been in love with Ed for years, but upon a friend Susie's death, discovers the man she's in love with (who is engaged to someone else) slept with Susie. Feelings and relationships are complicated; when she needs help, Eve turns not to Ed, but to Susie's brother to help her find her missing father.
I was not a fan of the setting or characters and found myself plodding through; Josie Silver continues to be my go-to for heartstring tugging grief, complicated feelings, and finding new love.

I loved this book, and we enjoyed interviewing Mhairi McFarlane on the #AmWriting podcast, episode 261.
She was as charming as her characters!
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/episode-261-really-funny-real-funny-rom-coms-plotting/id1099630313?i=1000519519134

‘Just Last Night’ is a fun story of a group of friends figuring out their choices in their everyday lives. If you’re searching for a light, meaningful read, this story is for you!

This book was unfortunately not for me. I got about 30% in and I just could not get into it. I honestly don’t even remember what it was about. I know others absolutely loved this book, so I recommend checking out their reviews for it! It may have just been the timing, I may try and check it out again at a later date.

While this is technically listed as a romance, and it did have romance with a sort of happily ever after, it was more focused on grief and missed opportunities. It was gut-wrenching. I think McFarlane's books are marketed as light-hearted romances, but they are not. Totally worth your reading time, though.

Ugh so beautiful. The heartache and the grief was palpable. I felt all sorts of emotions that I did not expect. Thank you for the arc!

I wish that I had enjoyed this book more than I did, I was annoyed by Eva and Edwards and just wanted to scream at them, I also did not like the character development of the main character.

With each new read, I continue to become more and more impressed with Mhairi McFarlane. There’s just something about her somewhat dark sense of humor that just speaks to my soul. I wasn’t expecting it to still be present in a story that navigates the process of grief, but it managed to be a motivating factor in the healing process for these characters. This story had a most impressive range of emotions and discussed grief in such a tangible way. Heartbreaking and moving.

While this wasn't my favorite McFarlane Book, I find her to be a good read alike for Emily Henry when Henry's books are hefty hold lists

A delightful book full of adventure, action, and thrills. Fun to read, engrossing world building, and very descriptive imagery made it feel like it was cinematic. It's hard to resist the story as it drives forward. Would recommend.

This is my third Mhairi McFarlane book, and while the others I've read by her have been slow to get going but then were fascinating, this one was a bit more evenly paced but never got stellar. Eve, Justin, Susie, and Ed are a tight foursome of friends, even though Eve is secretly in love with Ed. A major tragedy happens to change everyone's lives, and lots of secrets are revealed. Unfortunately, I found the main character, Eve, to be not very likable and somewhat pathetic, which made it hard for me to root for her. I was expecting this to be a light read, and while it does have a happy ending, there are a lot of serious themes of grief and loss, so it wasn't quite what I thought based on the cover / genre.

First of wow! Second of all, where can I get more of this?!? This was truly a roller coaster for me, and I think I just want to take another ride. The character? Mwah <3. Plot? 8/10! Ending? Read to find out *wink*.

P.s. if you are planning on reading it….. READ IT!! I recommend it to my cousin and she too loved it. And she isn’t even much of a book reader!!

I did not click with this book at all. I thought it would be a contemporary romance novel but the authors sense of romance is different from mine.

The worst thing about this book is that it took me only three hours to read it. After waiting over a year to get my paws on a new Mhairi McFarlane treasure, you would think I would try to make this one last—savoring it, stretching it out over a few days, at the very least—knowing full well that I wouldn't be getting another one for at least another year. But nope. I'm just not wired that way. And trust me, you won't be able to put Just Last Night down either. This is Mhairi at her very best.

A quick aside: Do not read the Publishers Weekly review of this book (the one on the B&N website) unless you want to be semi-spoiled. Not only does it reveal who exactly is killed—something that is left intentionally vague in the official synopsis and isn't revealed until the ~20% mark—but it also makes it fairly obvious to anyone with half a brain what the "life-changing" secret is that Eve (the MC) learns upon said friend's death (which, again, the reader doesn't discover for him/herself until halfway through the book). I was actually so sure that a major review—let alone one advertised on a bookseller's website—wouldn't be so free with the spoilers that I had half-convinced myself that it was intentional misdirection on their part to throw the reader off the scent. As it turns out, that was not the case; they were just careless.

It was ok. I felt it dragged a bit in certain points and I didn't click with the character. Not for me :(

I kept waiting for the romance to start, and it never really did. I was confused by who was going to be the love interest and by the end, we never really got to see any relationships blossom. I loved the build up of her relationship with Fin, the destruction of her infatuation with Ed, and I thought that had the potential for a really electrifying love-triangle plot that never quite hit. And I felt what kept me hooked the most was the potential of what the story was building to that ultimately never came. No love triangle. The "romance" with Ed that lead to nothing. The adorable, flirty road trip with Fin that could have lead to a fiery hookup but was just platonic aside from some bubbly feelings. I wanted so much more.

That being said, I loved every single second of this story. I think the "more" that I am hoping for just shows how completely infatuated I am with each of these characters. I loved their story. I loved being with Eve as she experienced all these levels of grief and fought for her friend after her death. I just loved it.

While this isnt the fluffy romance I was hoping for, still got a lot out of this story, and I'm absolutely hooked on reading more from Mhairi.