Last Night Was Fun: A Novel
Vying for a promotion against a bitter rival as the only female data analyst for a professional baseball team, Emmy finds solace in the text-flirting relationship that started as a wrong number exchange—unaware that the man she’s texting is the one she’s fighting for the promotion.
Emmy Jameson lives by three no dating, no sharing personal news at work, and baseball above everything. As the only female data analyst for a professional baseball team, Emmy is constantly trying to prove herself.
Especially when she’s put up for a senior analyst position against her arrogant, infuriating coworker Gabe Olson. Sure, he’s gorgeous and smart and he was a baseball star in college who knows the sport inside and out, but so does Emmy. She is not going to lose to him again. There will be no distractions this summer. Not even her sister’s pending destination wedding in Mexico for which she needs to find a plus one.
But then she receives a text from an unknown number with a simple “Last night was fun.” When she strikes up a conversation with the mystery texter, they realize that he was given a fake phone number after a bad date that just so happened to be Emmy’s. Despite her rules, Emmy can’t deny the instant connection she feels and soon finds herself falling for the stranger on the other side of the screen…and inviting him to her sister’s wedding.
Emmy’s world turns upside down when her mystery man turns out to be none other than Gabe Olson. They are left having to travel to the wedding together while trying to sort out which version of their relationship is their in-person rivalry or the deep connection they found in their messages.
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Gabe and Emmy work for the same baseball team in the same data analyst department. They hate each other with passion and always compete. When a chance of promotion appears, they both try to one-up one another.
At the same time, Emmy receives a text from an unknown number, and she and the stranger start texting every day. And when she realizes she needs a date for her sister's wedding, Emmy leaps at the chance.
But things grow complicated when the stranger she falls for turns out to be Gabe.
I have mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, it was well-written, emotional, with mostly well-rounded characters and a compelling story; on the other, Emmy irritated me in the first half, and I almost didn't finish the book. And the grand gesture at the end had me cringe.
Her "woe is me, it's so hard being a woman" complains and constant use of the phrase "Boys Town" was really irritating, the fact that she hides her femininity by choice and she constantly whines about how she can't werar hills or dresses to work - even though her female boss proves to ehr every day that she does and she can, had been irritating and annoying. Emmy sounded more like a whiny child most of the time, as if her "I work in the men's field" was her entire personality.
She got better, thankfully. We got to see her being an amazing sister and friend, and someone with ambitions and drive to make her reality come true. She finally believed in herself, and guess what? Turns out she was always part of the team. She just had to open her eyes.
Gabe has been a fantastic character since the beginning. Infuriating and handsome, I loved how much he loved Emmy from the beginning. I also loved how accepting and open he was to their connection. And I loved how they kept meeting each other.
I enjoyed the book for the most part, and I cried at a few scenes as well. But the ending wasn't for me - the grand gesture felt really out of character, and the third act breakup seemed to be there only for drama's sake, while it didn't really bring anything to the story.