Mistakes Were Made

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.

I read it and I enjoyed it but I also judged it hard. Power play can be a fun dynamic but actually fucking your daughter’s best friend while they’re in your house and without telling your kid is just wrong. But you might feel differently if you don’t have young adult kids.

Enjoyable, everything tied up a little too neat at the end. But still a sweet story.

I read it and I enjoyed it but I also judged it hard. Power play can be a fun dynamic but actually fucking your daughter’s best friend while they’re in your house and without telling your kid is just wrong. But you might feel differently if you don’t have young adult kids.

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.

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