Characters' careers? 10/10. Originality? 4/10? I liked the progression in general, but I hate when a book is literally just a romcom reprinted. It isn't inspired by You've Got Mail, it is that, just with a couple more plots at the end. The tragic backstories didn't do much for the plot or characters, but I'm not enough of a hater to say I just didn't like it. I did like this one, but it just wasn't anything new or different besides the data analyst angle.

Emmy and Gabe are rivals at work and up for the same promotion. Emmy is the Only Girl on her team and feels like Gabe keeps beating her out because he's part of the boys' club. So she's determined to win this competition. She also needs to fulfill her MOH duties for her sister's upcoming destination wedding in Mexico. And find a date. Which is made more difficult by the fact that she's given up dating after her last boyfriend told her she needed to chose between him or her job and she easily chose her job. But then she receives a text from an unknown number that says “Last night was fun.” She replies and they find out that the texter was given a phony number that turned out to be Emmy's. They continue talking and Emmy shares more of herself than she ever has before. When they meet after Emmy invites him to her sister's wedding, it turns out to be Gabe - turning both of their worlds upside down.

I'm a sucker for books that claim to be like others that I love. While I end up being disappointed more times than I'm not, this is one of those books that fulfills the hype and has me continuing to fall for it. Aside from the fact that the synopsis tells us the mystery texter is Gabe, it is really obvious to the reader (and should have been to them!) that they are both texting giddily at the same time. Their in person interactions do have the same feel as those in The Hating Game but are different enough that it's fresh. I especially loved Emmy's backstory and the reason she chose a profession in baseball. This was my first book by this author and I'll definitely be adding some of her other books to my to-read list.

Excuse me while I stop giggling and kicking my feet. This was the sweetest most heartfelt rom com I've read in awhile. I love Emmy and Gabe! The fact that the book also revolves around baseball analytics made it super fun. "Last Night Was Fun" starts off with Emmy receiving a text from a stranger who was given a fake number by someone else. Emmy and this guy start a conversation and being to fall for each other. The book was cute and sweet and definitely tackled some heavier topics too. I would highly recommend this if you love rom coms. I can't wait to read other books that Holly Michelle writes. Thanks to NetGalley and Avon Harper Voyager for this eARC.

Thank you Holly Michelle and the publisher, Avon and Harper Voyager, for allowing me to read an ARC of this book.

Genre: Romantic Comedy
Vibes: ⚾📱🔥😂💼✈️💘🏖️👠
Rating: 4.25⭐
Tropes: workplace romance / enemies-to-lovers / baseball / forced proximity

Okay, the first THIRD of the book was pretty much things we already knew from reading the description of the book. Of course, I didn't read the description before reading and so I was solving the mystery of who the anonymous texter was ... and I was right.

I absolutely love the relationship between Emmy and Gabe. From the beginning, as competing coworkers, to the end, where they are doing grand gestures to show how much they love each other. I related a lot to Emmy, from being a hard worker and loving her job, but especially in during the drama in the third act where she misunderstood a situation and blew things way out of proportion. Definitely sounds like something I would do. I am happy they made up in the end.

The reason I'm not rating higher is because I think proposals in the epilogue are overdone. But overall, it was a really cute and funny read.

Last night was fun is a light and fun romance that will leave you with warm, fuzzy feelings.

Emmy works as a data analyst for a professional baseball team. She is up for a promotion for the senior analyst position, but so is her coworker and office nemesis Gabe.
She receives a random text from an unknown number. The text is from a man, her age, who was given a false number by another woman he met. The mystery man and Emmy start to correspond and form a deep connection via text message. Emmy falls for the mystery man and invites him to her sister's wedding.
The chacater developement is solid and the characters are likeable. I loved the witty banter throughout the book!
If you are a fan of baseball you can totally geek out with this. However, I am not a big baseball fan and I loved this story.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for this eARC in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

I loved this book! Enemies to Loves with a twist. Emmy and Gabe can’t stand each other. Right? One day Emmy gets a text from an unknown number, telling her last night was fun. She could ignore it, or based on how her life is going, she could answer and end up with a pen pal. I loved the slow burn romance sorry. It’ has witty banter in and out of text. I loved reading this book. It’s so much fun. I was laughing out loud.

As a lifelong baseball fan, I had so much fun with this romance. I loved the whole secret texting aspect to it and the enemies to lovers tension was perfection. I loved Holly's other books and was delighted that this one was steamy! This is the perfect summer beach read!

I absolutely loved this book! I should not be surprised as I also really enjoyed her last book, Name Your Price, which gets a shoutout in this book.

I loved the baseball backdrop, the modern day you’ve got mail text messaging and the two work obsessed young people who find out what’s been right in front of them all this time. I could not stop reading this book no matter how late it got. I loved both characters (Emmy & Gabe), their families and their drive seem to be misunderstood.

A huge thank you to NetGalley along with Avon & Harper Voyager for allowing me access to an advanced copy of this book.

This is very cute, flirty story that kept me engaged from the very start. The characters are so well developed. I really enjoyed reading this title.

Emmy's career is her life, something she's sacrificed relationships for, and the promotion of her dreams is on the table. The only thing in her way is cocky Gabe Olsen, who seems to effortlessly get everything he wants simply because he's a man. She's driven, focused, and determined at work, though somewhat distracted by her rival's physique. A wrong number texts her one night with four simple words, "Last night was fun". Those four words spiral into a deep connection with the man she's dubbed Axe Murderer who calls her Bird Girl. It takes several weeks before the two finally decide to meet when it's finally discovered that the blooming relationship is between none other than Emmy and Gabe.

This premise is nothing new when stripped down, but that doesn't mean it's not enjoyable. I was entertained by the banter between Bird Girl and Axe Murderer, especially when Emmy and Gabe were challenging each other in person at the same time. I enjoyed the way the characters navigated their unique situation and the way their relationship changed following the discovery.

This book is a fun, light read, that's quite predictable. This is the kind of book I call a 'palate cleanser' because it's much lighter than many of the books I typically read. It touches on heartache and painful situations, but it's not immersed in those themes. This book was exactly what I needed to lighten my mood. Holly Michelle is a new author to me, but I enjoyed her writing style and will look into other books of hers in the future. 4 stars.

Special thanks to NetGalley and Avon and Harper Voyager for the ARC of this book.

4.5 stars.

San Diego represent!! "Last Night Was Fun" by Holly James was, in fact, a ton of fun! I loved Emmy and Gabe's chemistry! This book is more than just the romance. It is about the slow unfolding of a relationship as these two open up to one another. When Gabe send a text to Emmy's number thinking she was a woman he just went on a date with, their textual relationship gets started as they begin talking to each other and become fast friends. As it turns out, Emmy and Gabe, real life workplace rivals vying for the same job at work, are texting each other under the aliases Bird Girl and Axe Murderer and don't realize it! The only problem is, they really dislike one another at work! And, Emmy needs a date for her sister's wedding so she can prove to her ex that she is not obsessed with her job! Ahhh, what to do, what to do?! This story is ALWAYS entertaining. The tension between Gabe and Emmy is SO good! I like how Holly James doesn't make us wait for "the big reveal" until the very end... the story just wouldn't have worked as well of she had waited! It would have caused a lot more pain and trust issues. I laughed out loud several times while reading this. I also loved seeing the San Diego elements incorporated in the story, too. There were some deep dives here, not just a surface-level commentary about America's Finest City! I found this book to be well-paced, a quick and zippy read that didn't ever leave me wanting. Such a good read, especially for summer. Bring this one to the pool or beach!

Thank you to NetGalley, Holly James, Avon, and Harper Voyager for the complimentary ARC of this book. All opinions are my own. I was not compensated for this review.

Loved everything about this book. A chance meeting because of a fake number being given, and to make it even more crazier that the chemistry is off the charts they are actually work nemesis in real life. Never did they have each other's phone number to realize who they were anonymously texting. Their banter is so much fun and the fact that their icy interactions turn steamy so quickly is delightful. Add in that this is set at a baseball field - swoon. Bring on the baseball romances, even if it's not a player. Actually, having the characters work in the offices of the ball field makes this even more dreamier for me.
Emmy is trying to make her way in a very male dominated field. She is incredibly smart and good at her job but keeps getting beat out by the former ball player/male coworker, Gabe. Nevermind that he is incredibly good looking and also good at his job, he just somehow always manages to one-up her at every turn. Emmy just wants to focus on getting the next promotion over him and not on a having a romantic life. She's pretty much married to her job. Until one day she gets a random text from a stranger that changes everything. She didn't have to respond, but she did. The random texter becomes the one thing that she looks forward to each day.
I couldn't help but smile my whole way through this book. I loved everything about it and would gladly read it again just to try to capture those same feelings again.

This one is described as You’ve Got Mail meets The Hating Game and I honestly can’t think of a better description.

A case of wrong number brings Gabe and Emmy together. I always love a good text convo and this one has so many great ones. It was fun to watch these too together. Unbeknownst to each other the person they are texting with their work nemesis. I enjoyed how this one played out, and watching both main characters work through some past traumas, and watching them come together. It was such a fun romance.

I love women in male-dominated fields. 😏

Last Night Was Fun is the perfect summer read; it's quick, fun, just the right amount of depth, and there's a little somethin' for every romance reader. Normally, I listen to romcoms on audio and read fantasy on my Kindle, buttt this time around I had a fantasy ALC and I needed something totally different (like LNWF). I'm glad I did! The flirty text banter between Emmy and Gabe had me giggling. 🤭

However, I was over the author referring to the MMC as Gabe Olson very quickly, and I despise a third act breakup but what can ya do?

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher (Avon and Harper Voyager) for the eARC! 3.75 stars rounded up.

“A connection is a connection, regardless of when or how.”

As one of the only female data analysts working for a professional baseball team, Emmy lives by a few strict rules: no dating, no drama, and definitely no falling for her any of her coworkers. But when a wrong-number text turns into flirty late night convos with a mysterious stranger, Emmy can’t help but catch feelings—not realizing the man on the other end is the very person standing in her way for dream promotion…opps.

I loveddddd this book!! From the wrong number spark, to the slow burn workplace tension, and dreamy destination wedding it had everything I want in a rom-com. Emmy and Gabe (aka Bird Girl and Axe Murderer) had the BEST banter and the kind of chemistry that made me downright giddy!

I flew through this in a day and was literally smiling the entire time. Predictable in the best way, it’s one of those feel good reads that leave you swooning and a little sad it’s over. If you’re looking for a fun, flirty read to add to your summer stack, Last Night Was Fun is a must!!

Read if you like:
⚾️ Workplace rivals to lovers
📲 Wrong number
🏝️ Destination wedding
🔥 Slow burn
🛌 Only one bed

Kate’s rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Spice level: 🌶️

Thank you to NetGalley, Holly Michelle, and Avon and Harper Voyager for gifting me this eARC in exchange for an honest review.

One night Emmy receives a text saying "last night was fun", but since she doesn't date, she knows she was home last night. Turns out the guy was given a fake number, it just turned out to he hers. Now the two have a fun and flirty texting relationship and the best part of Emmy’s day. Emmy's up for a promotion working for a baseball team, but it's a boy's club and she's definitely on the outside - and she's up against Gabe, who is definitely in the club. In addition, her sister is getting married in Cancun and Emmy needs a date, especially since her ex will be there. Maybe text boy can be her plus one.

This was cute and I was into it from the very first chapter (which doesn't always happen for me). There was a lot of fun banter between all of the characters (love good banter) and while the "twist" was obvious, it was done slightly differently and well. I loved the stemmy nerdiness of the main characters but how it was simply integrated into the personalities and was not the focus (because they were multidimensional). This is a great fun and heartwarming rom com for the summer.

Thank you to Avon Books and NetGalley for the ARC to review

It can be challenging to make sure an enemies-to-lovers story doesn't seem too predictable or cheesy. I think Holly Michelle was able to make this story engaging and believable (for this genre). I enjoyed the characters and their relationship. I also appreciate that baseball didn't overpower this story; you didn't need to be a baseball fan or knowledgeable about the sport to enjoy this. Thank you, NetGalley!

This was a super fun debut sports romance that starts with a wrong number and has anonymous texting buddies and IRL work rivals falling for one another. There's great You've got mail vibes, a destination wedding, only one bed situation in Cancun and lots of laughs and emotional depth. Great on audio and highly recommended for fans of books like The art of catching feelings by Alicia Thompson or First base by Ally Wiegand. Many thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an early audio and digital copy in exchange for my honest review.

Such a fun read! Loved the unique topics here and was such a sweet summer read! Recommend to anyone looking for a lighthearted quick read.

This book was such a fun read! It was really predictable, following traditional rom com formula for the ending, but the connection between the two characters made it worth it.