Breakaway Books

Authored by Holly Michelle; Published June 2025; Romance

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You know what rom com still gives me happy tingles every time I watch it? You’ve Got Mail. And Last Night Was Fun has a lot of those same vibes.

In Last Night Was Fun, Emmy is dedicated to breaking into the boys club running her local Major League Baseball team. As a junior sports statistician, she is unsurprisingly the only girl on her team, and she has been nominated for promotion to sole senior analyst. She wants to focus in on getting the promotion, but distractions abound: a wrong number who turns out to be flirty and fun, her arrogant rival Gabe who has been nominated for the same promotion, and her sister, begging her to get a date to her quickly approaching wedding. Emmy’s definitely starting to fall for her texting pen pal, but she is loathe to slow down her career for any guy. Only she can decide if she can truly have it all.

Falling in love virtually is hardly a new concept nowadays, but that doesn’t lessen this romance’s charm. Emmy and her pen pal, somewhat obviously revealed to be Gabe, flirt with the best of them, and I loved to watch it. I also appreciated the self-awareness they displayed—once their identities are revealed, they laugh at how clear it was in retrospect. Yes, of course, it is highly improbable that two people who already know each other would be connected by a random wrong number given to a bad date at a bar. The two are statisticians and poke fun at how bad the odds are. I like that the novel can make fun of itself in this way. I did think it was slightly ridiculously that a hot jock/nerd like Gabe would still be single because apparently, a smart jock is not what the ladies want. (On what planet??)

Add to this that the majority of Emmy and Gabe’s romance takes place in a plush resort in Mexico, and this is excellent escapist fare. I wanted to move to the villa where they fell in love, with its beach access and roomy bed. Added bonus: The dramatic scene that every rom com has—where the two lovers reunite after a horrible disaster rips them apart—is epic. I will reveal no more. On a more serious note, their romance forces both Gabe and Emmy to reconcile with parts of their past and their families that had robbed them of their peace, and you know I love a rom com where the heroes remember to love themselves first. Their relationships with their parents are even intact by the end of the novel, which feels rare for most modern novels.

Last Night Was Fun is, in summary, the perfect beach read, especially if you love baseball. If not, no worries—it’s enough to love rom coms.