Mistakes Were Made

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Erin Bennett is at the family weekend at Campus to bond with her daughter, Parker. While her ex-husband is enjoying the evening with Parker, Erin decides to head to a bar for a drink. Cassie buys Erin a drink and Badda Bing, Badda Boom, they have a one-night stand! Neither expected to see the other, but the next morning, Parker brings her best friend, Cassie to breakfast to meet her mom and Cassie and Erin meet again! Oops!

This is one of those rare situations where I can honestly say, "it's not you, it's me." I'm a big proponent of going into books with a very open mind and one way I do that is to avoid looking too much into it beforehand. Perhaps I should have read this particular synopsis more closely. I knew this was going to be a best friend's mom/age-gap romance, which didn't bother me (then again, not much does). I was a little apprehensive when I learned that Cassie was a college senior who hooks up with Erin, her friend's 38-year-old mother, but I hoped maybe they would part ways after they discovered each other's identities and reconnect a few years later. I also stupidly assumed both characters would be more mature. She didn’t say more, too busy ogling the woman. She hadn’t gotten her fill from across the bar, apparently. It was even better up close, the woman’s pale skin somehow glowing even in the low light. Her eyes were strikingly blue—thin eyeliner making them stand out even more. Both women cover it up well, but their mutual attraction burns through every moment they are together. More unsettling than this though, is the fact that they can't stop thinking about one another when they're apart. Dual pov and a very sexy beginning. So far, off to a great start. This was genuinely very exciting from the start and was generally that way throughout the story. There were many sexy times which I usually don’t mind, I would just prefer it to be accompanied by more plot. Yes, there was a plot but it wasn’t incredibly interesting.Cassie (h) immediately came off to me as annoyingly arrogant, responding "I know" to compliments. She even called a woman twice her age 'good girl' which didn't quite work for me, but by the end, her bashful adoration for Erin (h) won me over. Erin was super sweet. I found her character greatly endearing and I felt her characterisation to have been done really well, actually. Probably because this is the author's actual demographic, but, for once, I actually felt like an older female character acted and had traits of other women her age. For instance, even Cassie mentions:

Cassie Klein went to an off-campus bar to escape family weekend at her college. She just wanted to unwind and enjoy a drink. She had no idea she would meet anyone, let alone have a one-night stand. I honestly loved this book so much! Which was awesome because it was one of my most anticipated releases this year. Two talented chess players challenge each other on and off the board in bestselling author Hazelwood’s YA debut. From Meryl Wilsner, the acclaimed author of Something to Talk About, comes Mistakes Were Made, a sharp and sexy rom-com about a college senior who accidentally hooks up with her best friend’s mom.Needing to escape her college’s Family Weekend, Cassie goes to a bar off-campus and meets an older woman, Erin. After a drink and some flirting, the stranger becomes a one-night stand Cassie expects never to see again. That is until the next morning when her best friend asks her to have breakfast with her mom, who happens to be the same woman from the bar. Will they be able to put their attraction and chemistry aside? What could go wrong if they decide to hookup some more? I also found Parker, who is the daughter/best friend, was weirdly underutilized in the story. For the fact that she’s the main foil to Cassie & Erin’s relationship, she just wasn’t super prominent which made the plot just *that* much more un-impactful. The pace of this one was night and day compared to that first book. I feel like Wilsner listened, because man oh man, did they deliver with this story. The next morning one of Cassie's best friend, a college freshman Parker, asks her if she wants to go to breakfast with her and her mom who is in town. As the two women arrive at the restaurant, Cassie looks up at the table to see Parker waving at her mom, her mom who happens to be the sexy older woman, Erin, she hooked up with at the bar last night. Well, I finally read the milf book! I had a really great time with this story, despite some initial hesitations that I’ll mention later. Both of our main characters, Cassie and Erin, were well developed and fun to read from and I adored the progression of their relationship from a hook up to an ‘oh shit!’ moment to something really tender and full of feeling. Their chemistry was, of course, brilliant and the sex scenes were well written with an obvious passion. It wasn’t just the steamy scenes that were well written — I was immediately hooked by Wilsner’s writing and flew through this book over just a couple of days.