Emmy and Gabe's chemistry is EVERYTHING I'm looking for in a enemies-to-lovers trope (!!!). Their chemistry was so good when they hated each other, via their text exchanges, and then when they finally decided to get there was just enough of the enemy distrust to make it feel like an actual transition without sacrificing the relationship they were building. I could've done without the third act breakup, but alas.

Super cute and fun read!!!

Last night was fun is such a cute romantic comedy. I really enjoy when main characters exchange notes back and forth and the texting in this book scratched that itch! This was a fantastic book to set off Rom com summer right!

Thank you Avon for the review copy. The secret identity trope is one of my all time favorites, and two of my recent reads featured their own spin on the “You’ve Got Mail” style romance – workplace rivals but best friends online, with feelings developing strongly for each other in both personas. Emmy receives a random text from someone who thought they were texting a woman they met the night before… only to find out he received a fake number. They strike up conversations online and their chemistry is sizzling. I loved the incorporation of women + math + baseball, the vulnerability each character displayed, and how gone Gabe was for Emmy.

You know the "kicking your feet in the air while giggling" feeling you get when you watch a great rom-com? That is the ultimate feeling you get when you read this book. It was such a cute banter, slow burn, enemies to lovers, one bed, STEM in sports, trope filled delight.
No huge surprises - I can see myself reading this again as a comfort read, or recommending it to someone who might be in a reading slump.
Immediately adding the author's backlist to my TBR - please go read this book!
And can we get a special edition please? I can imagine SO many fun customizations!

Thanks NetGalley and Avon!

4.5⭐️
2🔥

Quick Breakdown

Woman in STEM
Workplace Rivals
Baseball Adjacent
Anonymous Texting
He Falls First
Only One Bed
Single POV
Open Door - Mild to Moderate

Emmy gets a “last night was fun” text clearly meant for someone else. But what started out as a wrong number coincidence turns into textual banter & a connection neither anticipated. In desperate need of a wedding date to her sister’s destination wedding, Emmy invites her “axe murderer” mystery man as her plus one only to discover he is none other than Gabe Olsen - her arrogant & infuriating workplace rival. Both MLB analysts for their local team, they’re up for the same promotion. Emmy is forced to reevaluate what she thought she knew & if it’s worth it to follow her heart.

Last Night Was Fun snuck up on me & completely pulled me in.

The writing felt poetic, smooth & entirely addictive. It had been a while since I binged a book as quickly as this one. I couldn’t put it down. I loved the pacing. It’s slow & intentional. I felt like I was falling in love right along with our MCs. The plot - a female in a male dominated field mistakenly falling for her workplace rival who might be more than she originally thought had me 𝘴𝘸𝘰𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨.

That brings me to our MCs. I was fully invested. Emmy was entirely relatable in her struggles & as a baseball enthusiast myself, I envied her very cool job. Watching her & Gabe together while knowing the collision of worlds to come brought all the joy. And Gabe’s determination to win her over after the truth was uncovered was a “her falls first” lovers dream.

Then the 3rd act crisis happened. The build up for it was there from the beginning, so I could very much so see it coming. While I could have done without, I understood why Emmy acted the way she did & it lead to one epic grand gesture from her.

THIS BOOK WAS SO FUN! I devoured it in a day. It was a fantastic summer read: fast-paced, low-stakes, good banter, tropical location, one bed!!

Some of the plot was a bit predictable, but that was okay with me. I enjoyed the tension between Gabe and Emmy. The text flirtation was adorable, and when they finally realized it was each other, it was hilarious. I also thought the side characters were a solid addition to the plot.

Thank you, Avon, for the e-ARC!

A fun read. Gabe and Emmy work together and are up for the same promotion. Will finding that they have been calling for each other change things? I liked how it was told and included the text messages between them, and some great friends.

This was a fun rivals/enemies to lovers workplace romance. This is my favorite romance trope and this one reminds me of You've Got Mail meets The Hating Game. I loved the texting banter, there were lots of laugh out loud moments. Yes, some aspects are far fetched and you need to suspend reality a bit- but that didn’t detract from making this a highly enjoyable read.

You’ve Got Mail meets The Hating Game? You had me at hello! I love a good workplace romance rivalry mess. This has everything I want in a rom com novel and more. Emmy and Gabe were a delight to read about and I was giddy throughout reading this. Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for my ARC.

I am a HUGE fan of Holly James, having read all of her other novels.
The moment I saw that Holly Michelle is Holly James, I knew I had to read ‘Last Night Was Fun.’
And it didn’t surprise me one bit that this novel was another FIVE STAR read!

What I LOVED:
⚾️ A story about people who run stats for a baseball team
🧠 Emmy: a smart, strong woman working in an otherwise male oriented field and kicking ass along the way
💃🏼Emmy: woman who values her passion, her job, her happiness and has no intention of anyone (I’m talking about you Jacob!) making her feel bad about that
👯‍♀️ The relationship between Emmy and her younger sister Piper whose destination wedding is quickly approaching
5️⃣ That it’s a delightful FIVE STAR read with dynamic characters, relatable familial situations, and humorous conversations
💒 The adorable dynamic between Piper and her soon-to-be-husband Ben
📱Emmy meeting someone via text when that person was given a wrong number after a date (ouch!)
🗣️The quick, witty, easy, and flirty banter between Emmy and her mystery texter whom she saves in her phone as Axe Murderer (he saves her as Bird Girl)
🚫 The frustratingly handsome co-worker who always has to one-up Emmy
💍 A destination wedding
🛏️A one bed scenario
💕 A friends to lovers (while also being an enemies to lover trope)

As you can see, there are SO many things to love about this book that it makes for an easy and well deserved FIVE STARS!

Have I mentioned it’s a FIVE STAR read, yet?! 😉

My sincere gratitude to NetGalley, Holly Michell, and Avon and Harper Voyager for the opportunity to read this delectable five star romcom in exchange for a review! This one is available now!

4.25 ⭐️

this was cute! i also loved the mixed media with text message bubbles (my fav thing lol). it’s giving you’ve got mail vibes. i enjoyed the romance between the two main characters from both before and after meeting. this is the perfect summer romance!

emmy (data analysis for a baseball team) gets caught in a wrong-number text exchange with a stranger who happens to be her rival coworker gabe (and they continue to text but have no idea it’s each other). they both seem to find themselves falling for the other without knowing the true identity. they then decide to meet because emmy needs a date to her sisters wedding and they have to navigate their online and in person feelings while being up for the same promotion at work.

featured tropes: workplace rivals to lovers, one bed, forced proximity, funny nicknames, wrong number

This was a fun and fast paced story with wonderful characters and an interesting plot. I enjoyed the writing style as well.

4.5 stars Thanks to Netgalley and Avon and Haper Voyager for the E-ARC. This book was so much fun. Such a breeze and light read starting with the concept of the book. Even the hate between Emmy (FMC) and Gabe (MMC) was funny and cute. I was really rooting for them thru the whole story.

Last Night Was Fun is perfectly named — it really is fun! One of my most anticipated reads of the year and it totally lived up to the hype. Thank you Avon for sending me the gifted copy!

Last Night Was Fun is Mr. Wrong Number meets The Hating Game — it’s got the hidden identity epistolary element (a la You’ve Got Mail) combined with in-person workplace tension and slow-burn chemistry. These tropes can be tough to pull off — sometimes there’s a flimsy, easily avoidable miscommunication, or the chemistry doesn’t sell the enemies-to-lovers transformation. But no worries here — Holly Michelle absolutely nails it!

Read for:
You’ve Got Mail vibes
Workplace romance
Enemies to lovers
Baseball statisticians & data nerds
Only one bed

This book had me kicking my feet, grinning like a schoolgirl, and wishing it would never end. It’s pure joy from page one and I can’t recommend it enough!

Last Night Was Fun was such an enjoyable read. It had classic rom com vibes with all the best tropes, while feeling fresh. It was clever, witty—and quite hot. I loved watching Emmy and Gabe find their happy ending.

This novel follows Emmy, a data analyst for a pro baseball team, as she starts a texting relationship with a guy who gets "wrong-numbered" and texts her by mistake. Little does she know, it's her co-worker with whom she's in competition for the same job! Having read a few books with this premise, I really appreciated that they both had no clue. I don't enjoy the "how do I tell him/her" miscommunication, and enjoyed that we didn't have to go through that here. There was a good blend of talking about Emmy's life being the Only Girl at work in sports, her family relationships, and their romantic relationship. Plus Emmy and Gabe had great chemistry! I don't normally love reading texts in books, but their banter kept me hooked.

Thank you to NetGalley and Avon for the opportunity to read and review this ARC!

This book was such a cute, breath of fresh air, perfect summer read and I’m so glad I picked it up earlier than I’d planned. To say I called “it” from chapter 3 would be highly accurate but it made my anticipation increase to know what would happen in the future.

I loved the boss energy of our FMC, Emmy and the witty banter between her and her arch nemesis/work rival, Gabe. I can imagine living the life of a woman in a man dominated occupation is difficult, but Emmy sure was able to hold her own.

The HEA was the icing on the cake. Do yourself a favor and pick this one up.

A blast! Super super cute. I read this one very quickly! I love Holly’s books and will continue keeping an eye out for her new releases!

love love love. This was such a fun work place + you've got mail type rom com. I loved the baseball element and how things played out. An easy and fun read!

This book started out SO strong. It’s actually the second book about mysterious texting while employed by a baseball team (the Art of Catching Feelings) that I’ve read recently. And I remember thinking when I first started, that this book was better than the other. Once the two main characters realized they were falling for each other, i think i got a little lost. The plot got wayyy over complicated and it got ruined a bit by the end by a simple miscommunication. Overall, highly readable and cute - perfect for a beach read this summer. But a lot could have been improved!