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    Mistakes Were Made: A Novel
    Mistakes Were Made: A Novel
    Mistakes Were Made: A Novel
    Audiobook12 hours

    Mistakes Were Made: A Novel

    Written by Meryl Wilsner

    Narrated by Quinn Riley and Stephanie Németh-Parker

    4.5/5

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    • Friendship

    • Relationships

    • Self-Discovery

    • Family

    • Communication

    • Friends to Lovers

    • Secret Relationship

    • Forbidden Love

    • Age Gap

    • Coming of Age

    • Love Triangle

    • Age Gap Romance

    • Coming Out

    • May-December Romance

    • Opposites Attract

    • Personal Growth

    • Love

    • College Life

    • Trust

    • Divorce

    About this audiobook

    "Listeners will have a devilishly grand time with this rambunctiously robust performance by stellar narrators Quinn Riley and Stephanie Németh-Parker." - AudioFile Magazine (Earphones Award Winner)

    From the critically acclaimed author of Something to Talk About comes Meryl Wilsner's Mistakes Were Made, 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?

    A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateOct 11, 2022
    ISBN9781250868848
    Mistakes Were Made: A Novel
    Author

    Meryl Wilsner

    MERYL WILSNER writes happily ever afters for queer folks who love women. They are the USA Today bestselling author of Something to Talk About and Mistakes Were Made. Born in Michigan, Meryl lived in Portland, Oregon and Jackson, Mississippi before returning to the Mitten State. Some of Meryl's favorite things include: all four seasons, button down shirts, the way giraffes run, and their wife.

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    4.5/5

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    Readers find this title to be a perfect, engaging, and heartwarming novel. The story is great, the characters are lovable, and the connection between them is irresistible. The plot is compelling and the intimate scenes are steamy. Although some readers found it a little drawn out, they still loved the ending. Overall, it is a beautiful queer love story that grabs the reader right away.

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    • 5/5
      What a great story. No huge drama, always entertaining. This book needs to be adapted into a Hallmark movie
    • 5/5
      I can’t describe the emotional roller coaster this story gave me one minute I’m giggling by the sex parts and next I’m shocked and now I’m crying because it ended and they are happy together I love this book I need more of this now
    • 3/5
      3.5 Overall, I enjoyed listening to this book though at times the characters were a little bit cringy and the plot kind of drag that times. I would have preferred the age gap if cassie was not best friends with Erin's daughter and if they did not spend the entire book sneaking around.
    • 5/5
      really cute and beautiful written. Dynatic, smart and authentic characters
    • 5/5
      I loved it... Made me cry, laugh and a lot of different emotions. Impossible not to fall in love with the characters
    • 5/5
      I felt like I was reading oneof those crazy reddit stories about an unorthodox love story, but in the best way. This book was spicy, sweet, and tense all at the same time. I LOVED it.
    • 4/5
      I had a very good time! It was very sweet (and spicy too)
    • 5/5
      Super hot, awesome story line and a heartwarming plot twist. I’ll most definitely revisit this novel

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This was seriously perfect <3 I never wanted it to end! The story was great and both narrators just gave us EVERYTHING!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      I loved this book! The spice, the plot, and the characters were great! It was a little drawn out, but I loved the ending! Beautiful queer love story!

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    • 5/5
      Denial can be such a powerful emotion… When she meets her daughter Parker for breakfast on Family Weekend, Erin doesn’t expect her to show up with the woman she had sex with last night while Parker was having dinner with Erin’s ex-husband. As it turns out, Cassie is Parker’s best friend and the fact that she and Erin can’t stay away from each other doesn’t have to mean anything, right?

      The thing about mainstream is you hear about books for months before you get to read them, other authors tweet and post about them, there’s a lot of buzz for a really long time and because all that buzz is so positive since it’s marketing mostly, then you have high expectations about these books and more often than not, they don’t live up to these expectations. Once in a while, however, one of them does. Mistakes Were Made is that book.

      It’s been called the MILF book for months and while the nickname is accurate, it’s also extremely reductive. The plot is pretty basic but what Wilsner did with it is not. It’s complex and subtle, scorching hot and achingly sweet at the same time. Wilsner writes Cassie in a way that makes her being both Parker and Erin’s equal completely plausible. The age gap works perfectly, the age difference (Cassie is 21 at the beginning of the story, Erin is 38, Parker is 18) is real, never glossed over, never ignored, and yet never in the way. Erin and Cassie aren’t in the same place in life and sure, age is a factor but it’s not the only one and I loved that Cassie’s youth isn’t the reason for Erin’s attraction. I also loved that the one time Erin mentions being too old for whatever has more to do with being the mother of a college student (believe me, I can relate) than anything else. Also, for the record, 38 isn’t too old for anything.

      The real hang-up is Erin being Parker’s mom and Wilsner conveys the discomfort, the ambivalence, the reticence beautifully. I had no trouble believing the MCs’ inability to accept feelings were involved because the author made it make sense to them even if other characters obviously rolled their eyes at their blatant cluelessness.

      This book isn’t perfect, there are inconsistencies and the pacing is uneven, but I enjoyed it tremendously anyway. The narration played a big part in that. I’m not usually a fan of dual narration, I find characters having different voices in different chapters unsettling. In this case though, Quinn Riley (Cassie’s chapters) and Stephanie Németh-Parker (Erin’s chapters) have narrating styles and voices that are close enough to make the changes seamless. They’re both very good and I’m glad I went directly to the audiobook. The Earphones Award is one hundred per cent deserved. 4.5⭐️

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    • 5/5
      A college senior unknowingly hooks up with her best friend’s mom.

      I loved, loved, loved this book! I’m not usually engaged by novels that open with a hookup, but this one grabbed me right away. Cassie and Erin feel like living, breathing people, and the connection between them is irresistible. Neither want to hurt Erin’s daughter but they can’t help being drawn together. The mistakes they make come from love, and it’s easy to see why they don’t make better choices. The plot is compelling and the intimate scenes super steamy. The dual narration of the audiobook worked well and made the story easy to understand.

      Thanks, NetGalley, for the ARC I received. This is my honest and voluntary review.

      1 person found this helpful