Mistakes Were Made

A Novel

Paperback, 352 pages

Published Oct. 10, 2022 by St. Martin's Griffin.

ISBN:
978-1-250-84100-1
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When Cassie Klein goes to an off-campus bar to escape her school’s Family Weekend, she isn’t looking for a hookup―it just happens. Buying a drink for a stranger turns into what should be an uncomplicated, amazing one-night stand. But then the next morning rolls around and her friend drags her along to meet her mom―the hot, older woman Cassie slept with.

Erin Bennett came to Family Weekend to get closer to her daughter, not have a one-night stand with a college senior. In her defense, she hadn’t known Cassie was a student when they'd met. To make things worse, Erin’s daughter brings Cassie to breakfast the next morning. And despite Erin's better judgement―how could sleeping with your daughter’s friend be anything but bad?―she and Cassie get along in the day just as well as they did last night.

What should have been a one-time fling quickly proves impossible to ignore, …

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reviewed Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner

Wish Fulfillment with a Weird Penchant for Resolving Conflicts Off-page

Book was built around the sex scenes, which were successfully done. Very much a candy, wish fulfillment type of book.

It was odd that the central conflict of the second half of the novel was resolved more or less off-page.

Review of 'Mistakes Were Made' on 'Storygraph'

I'd go 3.5 stars for this one. I definitely enjoyed it and it was a nice introduction to Wislner's work. I read [b:Something to Talk About|52915426|Something to Talk About|Meryl Wilsner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1589963301l/52915426.SX50.jpg|70730596] and [b:Cleat Cute|65214313|Cleat Cute|Meryl Wilsner|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1673554566l/65214313.SY75.jpg|95348950] (both ebook and audio for CC thanks to NetGalley) and enjoyed each more than the previous one. All have good characters, smoking sex scenes, and interesting storylines. She's become one of my go-to authors when I need a nice romance to escape to.

WAT

The good part: This entire scenario is incredibly sick (yes, hahaha, YES). Fucking your best friend's mom? Fucking your daughter's best friend? Oh boy, this could be a riot.

The bad part: It's a very very slow burn. You'd expect a buildup, then drama when the daughter/friend finds out, then reconciliation. Instead, it's 300 pages of sex, secret dates and a good old relationship escalator (of course, marriage is just what this story needs 🥴). At some point it really got boring. If you really wanted this story, make it shorter. And scrap the epilogue.

None

So you made out with my brother because you were sexually frustrated about Parker’s mom?


Well. I expected to have mixed feelings about this book, and here I am now, with all the mixed feelings. :D

Good stuff first: I enjoyed how easily the story flowed and the overall fanfic feel of it (I know the book used to be a fanfic before the serial numbers got filed off, and honestly, it still reads like one, which I'm not complaining of, not even in the slightest). There were multiple really heartwarming and wholesome moments with family and friends taking care of each other. There were a few lines of dialogue here and there that had me laughing in earnest. Also, I appreciated that while there were no prominent trans or nonbinary characters here, somehow the story managed to feel extremely trans-inclusive, with all the characters explicitly acting like people like …

Review of 'Mistakes Were Made' on 'Goodreads'

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Ok, i give up on the romance genre. For good. After reading dozens of romance books, I can't help but find this boring and dull af. The writing is overdramatic and incredibly unoriginal. Not a single sentence that made me appreciate the English language, no humour, no interesting plot or characters, nothing. Just another formulaic romance book that makes it very hard to believe to me that the author put more than five minutes worth of effort in thinking it up and writing it. Not worth the time.

Review of 'Mistakes Were Made' on 'Goodreads'

  1. this is erotic fiction…heavy on the sex scenes and light/absent the romance until the very end (not a complaint! it’s hot)

    2. for the first 85% of the book, I was unsure how they’d move from forbidden sex at every opportunity to a requisite HEA “romance” ending, but they did it!

    (adding an extra 1/2 star for the narration of Erin’s POV)

    4 stars
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