I received an advanced copy of Mistakes were Made from St. Martin’s Griffin so I could share my review with you!
About Mistakes Were Made
Author: Meryl Wilsner
Narrator: Jeremy Carlisle Parker, Quinn Riley & Stephanie Németh-Parker
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin
Release Date: October 11th, 2022
Genres: Romance, LGBTQ+ Stories
Purchase Links: Bookshop.org, Libro.FM, Amazon, Goodreads, StoryGraph, Book Depository, Barnes & Noble
Synopsis of Mistakes Were Made
From the critically acclaimed author of Something To Talk Aboutcomes a sharp and sexy rom-com about a college senior who accidentally hooks up with her best friend’s mom.
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, and soon Cassie and Erin are sneaking around. Worst of all, they start to realize they have something real. But is being honest about the love between them worth the cost?
My Review of Mistakes Were Made
I personally love rom-coms and contemporaries more and more as the weather gets colder! Recently, I finished reading Mistakes Were Made, which I was so lucky to have received an advanced copy of from St. Martin’s Griffin! This book was such a great read for me, what with my love of romance in the chilly weather!
Mistakes Were Made has got to be the single steamiest book I have ever read! Despite the many (fantastically written) steamy scenes, I never lost sight of the characters and their personalities. This can occasionally be an issue for me with romance novels, that characters fail to stand on their own outside of their romantic pursuits and interests, but that was very much not the case with Mistakes Were Made! Cassie and Erin are both strong women and protagonists, who are interesting and exciting to read about! I could easily see myself reading about them again in a sequel, because their relationship and personalities has me absolutely hooked!
In addition to reading a physical copy, I also had the wonderful experience of listening along to an audiobook version from Macmillan Audio! The narration for the audiobook version of Mistakes Were Made was just perfect for the story! The narrator’s voices reflected how the characters sounded in my head, which is the number one thing I look for when listening to a book. Though the story was already so amazing, the audiobook version elevated it even further for me!
My Recommendation-
If you are looking for a super steamy read to keep you warm during the cold months, you need to snag a copy of Mistakes Were Made! If you love romantic sapphic stories, this is going to be a must-read for you!
About the Author
Meryl Wilsner writes happily ever afters for queer folks who love women. They are the author of SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT and the upcoming MISTAKES WERE MADE. Born in Michigan, Meryl lived in Portland, Oregon and Jackson, Mississippi before returning to settle in the Mitten State. Some of Meryl’s favorite things include: all four seasons, button down shirts, the way giraffes run, and their wife.
Meryl’s debut novel, SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT, received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal, as well as being one of Amazon, Kirkus, and NPR’s best books of 2020. Their next book, MISTAKES WERE MADE, will publish October 11, 2022. While in SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT, the characters take so long to kiss you want to fling yourself into the sun, MISTAKES WERE MADE opens with a sex scene. Meryl is large. They contain multitudes. In their dayjob, they’re being slowly crushed by capitalism.
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