Last Night Was Fun

A Novel

De: Holly Michelle

Narrado por: Patti Murin

You’ve Got Mail meets The Hating Game! 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 rules: 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 message: “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 real: their in-person rivalry or the deep connection they found in their messages.

©2025 Holly Michelle (P)2025 HarperCollins Publishers

All the Best Tropes, Perfectly Wrapped

If you love all the best tropes perfectly tied together — rivals-to-lovers, anonymous texting, forced proximity — with clever movie callbacks and a satisfying, feel-good resolution, this is the book for you. It has big Hating Game and You’ve Got Mail energy, but with its own fresh, witty charm.

A fun hidden identity romance!

Emmy Jameson loves her job as a baseball data analyst, even if it is something of a boys club. A boys club led by Gabe Olson, the infuriating smart and handsome former college player who is her rival for a key promotion. She won’t let Gabe distract her from her goal of getting that promotion. She also won’t let her sister’s destination wedding, for which she still needs a date, to distract her. But then she gets a random wrong number text from a stranger who was clearly given a fake number by a woman, a fake number that just happened to be Emmy’s. And she gets a little distracted…in the best way. This stranger quickly becomes the bright spot in her days, someone she’s vulnerable and honest with. Then she takes the leap to invite him to her sister’s wedding only to discover that the funny, kind, thoughtful stranger is none other than Gabe Olsen - and he’s just as shocked as she is. Now she has to reconcile her biggest rival is also her closest confidant. And all those pesky feelings.

What an incredibly fun book! This one reads really quickly, with lots of text messages between the main characters. The banter, nicknames, and pure fun of the book is deftly balanced with discussions of inequality in the workplace, how equality is an effort that must be shared by all. This is also the primary theme of Holly’s book Nothing But the Truth, which was very smart. The other books by this author that I’ve read have been closed door. This one is definitely a departure with more open door scenes.

🎧 Audiobook Notes 🎧 With all of the texts and back and forth banter, this one really lends itself to audio. Patti Murin, who has voiced some of my other favorite audiobooks (Soulmate Equation, The Paradise Problem, The Bodyguard, Sounds Like Love), does a really fantastic job with this one. (11h, 50m)

Romantic

It is a Well written, enjoyable romantic novel, and it was A pleasure to read.