4.25 stars

Phew, okay: the main couple in the story has a lot of on-page sex (and you know, good for them). I wasn’t totally sure how I’d feel about the concept of this story, but the early reviews sounded so promising that I decided to check it out anyway, and I’m really glad that I did. I enjoyed the diverse representation of queer relationships, the plot was fun(ny), and some of the major characters grew/developed noticeably from the beginning to the end. While it sometimes felt like it would end up being too predictable or artificially perfect, the ending was ultimately happy and fairly satisfying, and I did appreciate the writer’s style, perspective, and humour. I may pick up a physical copy of this one as well in the future, and I can’t wait to see what else the writer comes out with next.

Following her divorce, Erin Bennett feels like she and her ex-husband are in a competition for their daughter, Parker's, attention. So, when Family Weekend rolls around at Parker's college, Erin and her ex decide to split the nights. On a night when Parker is having dinner with her Dad, Erin heads to an off-campus bar by herself. She's looking for nothing more than a cold drink.

For Cassie Klein, Family Weekend is the perfect time to avoid campus like the plague. All those happy families, gross. Thus, she decides to hit up an off-campus bar as a means of escape. She's not looking for anything, but when she spots a beautiful woman sitting alone at the bar, she offers to buy her a drink.

Little did Cassie know that harmless gesture was going to lead to the most enticing one night stand of her life. The next morning, Cassie's friend Parker convinces her to go to breakfast with her to meet her Mom. She's not super pumped about it, but Cassie tags along anyway. Imagine her surprise when she walks into the restaurant and discovers Parker's Mom is her steamy hook-up from the night before.

Erin is equally taken aback when her daughter walks in with the sexy girl from the night before. Erin had no idea Cassie was a college student, let alone a friend of her daughters. 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.

Cassie and Erin cannot stay apart. It's like it's against the laws of physics. They are drawn together like opposite poles of a magnet. Having no choice, they begin sneaking around. It's risky as heck, but it's more than just great sex. Although neither wants to admit it at first, it's complicated, they grow to really care for each other, but how the heck are they going to make this work? Is it even possible?

Meryl Wilsner's debut novel, Something to Talk About was the first F/F Romance published by Berkley. I was so stoked about it for months, but at the end, it left me underwhelmed. I enjoyed the writing and the characters, but the pace was quite slow and it was lacking the steam I was looking for.

Y'all, at 5% into Mistakes Were Made we had steam; a lot of it. In fact, 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 characters were still fantastic, there were some serious issues being explored, but the forbidden romance trope brought the fun. There were moments that I was a little uncomfortable for Parker, but at the end of the day, they are all adults and I liked how Wilsner wrapped it up.

Overall, I found this one to be highly entertaining. A huge success of a sophomore novel. I am definitely looking forward to more from Wilsner in the future. Thank you so much to the publisher, St. Martin's Griffin and Macmillan Audio, for providing me with copies to read and review. This is a perfect example of why I never give up on an author after only one book.

This is such a fun, sexy read!
Thank you to the publisher for providing an audio review copy of this book.
Pick this up if you love relatable main characters and lots of spicy scenes. I had such fun with this one. I loved the will they won't they tension - though that question was answered very quickly most of the time. This is a dual perspective story of two women, Erin and Cassie, who just happen to find each other in the most casual way, that leads to big consequences.
This is smart and funny. The characters are real and relatable. I laughed out loud at the character's dialog and loved the sweet romantic moments so much. I will definitely pick up other works by this author.

Cassie, a college senior, wants to escape her school's Family Weekend and decides to go to a bar. She has some fun and has a one night stand with an attractive older woman. It isn't until the next morning when Cassie's friend convinces her to come to breakfast with her mom that Cassie realizes she slept with her friend's mother, Erin. What was supposed to be a one night hook up evolves into more as Cassie and Erin realize how well they get along. They're sneaking around, trying not to hurt Erin's daughter's feelings, but they must decide if what they have is real and worth the difficulty of coming clean.

I loved this book! It's a great age gap romance. Erin and Cassie's connection felt real and believable to me. It was also easy to understand the sneaking around in this story because the characters are in a very awkward situation with Erin's daughter being Cassie's friend even though there's nothing wrong happening. I can get why they wouldn't want to open up about the relationship until they're sure. I also loved that this book takes place over a more extended period of time and isn't just insta-love. I'd highly recommend this one to fans of sapphic romance! I'll definitely be rereading this one at some point and keeping an eye out for future books from Meryl Wilsner!

Thank you so much for an ALC! I really enjoyed the authors writing, and while I found parts of the story hot, I think I'm just not a fan of age gaps or MILFs. I can see people who are loving this, though!

The idea of the story was good. Good pace and humour. Unfortunately, in the end I did not enjoy this book as a whole. There was so much repetition from the characters regarding what was happening. I felt like with each Cassie and Erin encounter I had to listen about it until the next encounter. And their encounters and their feelings about each encounter were exactly the same. Also, I almost gave up reading just because the phrase "we're best friends" felt like it was said every five minutes. I get it, Cassie was a bestie to Parker and Erin is Parker's mom, we get where this is going.

Thank you NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the AudioARC.

Mistakes Were Made, but listening to this was not one of them. Wilsner is already known for her sapphic romcoms, but Mistakes Were Made is her best installment yet. A classic romcom trope combined with queerness makes for an excellent and fun read, with realistic and hot sex scenes at that.

EDIT: I changed my rating to 5 stars. I reread it and I really loved every part of it.

I'm sure this book is amazing to read physically but the AUDIO BOOK??? PERFECTION!! The two narrators did such an incredible job with their respective characters. The two narrators put so much emotion into the character's I could hear "Cassie's" cocky grins and "Erin's" love for her daughter. I thoughts their voices just matched the characters perfectly! The spicy scenes!??!!? DID NOT DISAPPOINT!

This book follows Cassie a 21 year old college student and a divorced mother of one Erin. Cassie and Erin randomly meet one night at a bar and end up having a very steamy night together. After their night they part without a thought of seeing the other ever again; until the next morning Cassie and her friend Parker go to breakfast together to meet up with Parker's mom who happens to be the woman Cassie slept with the night before!

I really loved the characters in this book they both had emotional depth and I connected with them. I usually don't like age gap romances often because the younger counterpart will sometimes come off annoying or stupid but Cassie was neither. I really wish we got a better sense of her background. It was talked about but not enough or in depth. We also hear about Erin's mother and how Erin growing up with her and her expectations was difficult. Both of their relationships with their parents should have been discussed more since that is pivotal to how they approached/handled their own relationship together.

Overall this book was great and I will absolutely be recommending it to everyone!
Thank you to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for this audiobook!

Cassie Klein heads off campus to a bar and hooks up with a random woman one night. The next morning, she heads to brunch with her best friend, Parker, only to find that the woman she hooked up with the night before was Parkers mom, Erin. This age-gap and one night stand troupes were fun to read. This was an entertaining read that I could totally see being made into a movie. I wasn’t a fan of either Cassie or Erin most of the time but that didn’t stop me from reading or enjoying what I was reading. This was steamy right from page 1. At some points a little too steamy and I would have preferred a little more plot at those times, but, overall, I did enjoy it.

This book is amazing and the audiobook made it even better. For sure going to be buying/re-reading this one over and over again.

Wilsner’s first novel blew me away, so I was excited to read their sophomore novel, despite not being a big fan of age gap romances. However, Wilsner converted me. They handled the story with such care and love, that it was impossible to find something wrong with the relationship between the two main characters. This was a fun and steamy read that I could not put down!

This was an audiobook for me that was SPICY. There is age gap, MILF (best friends mom), college/new adult, LGBTQ+, very spicy scenes.

When I realized there were college aged characters I worried it was going to be a whiny, angsts book…. But it WASN’T. I was only annoyed by Cassie’s whining twice in the whole book. Overall a good story and I loved that the sh!t never hit the fan. It was all maturely handled.

This book has so much drama and love that I don't even know where to begin with this book.

Cassie is in her final year of college when she meets Erin at a bar. Somehow their one-night stand turns out to be a little awkward the next day at brunch. It turns out they have an extraordinary person in their life in common. The rest of the story becomes a little complicated from here as they try to figure out what and who they are together.

Tropes in this book:
Age Gap
Best Friends Mother
Sapphic Love Story

Thank you Macmillan Audio and Netgalley for the opportunity to listen to this book.

I really enjoyed this one. I found the story to be interesting, funny, and well-paced. I also really enjoyed the characters. I would definitely recommend this one to friends.

This book caught my attention from the minute I heard about it coming out. Number one a MILF book, number two, dual povs- truly what more does one need.
In all seriousness though I really enjoyed this book! It held my interest the entire time, I felt like I understood for the characters and genuinely wanted to see them happy.
I thought the mini “plot twists” (I guess you could call them) we’re perfect for the story. Each one fit in the story and although it was very like “oh of course this is happening” it wasn’t because it was unrealistic, it was more of just ironic, which I enjoyed.
I really liked both our main characters I definitely liked Erin a little more, I just feel like I related to her more, even though I’m literally Cassie’s age lol. I just felt like Erin’s hesitances she had about putting herself first were real conversations I’ve had with myself in my head. With that being said I did like Cassie, I just found her a bit immature at times. Somethings she said or did just made my cringe, I know the age gap was a major trope in this book, one that I don’t mind in books (including this one), I just found it kinda of odd Erin never said or internally thought anything about it.
Our side characters played a big role in this book but honestly were not in as nearly as many scenes as I aspected. Considering Parker was the main foil in Cassie & Erin’s relationship, she was oddly absent from a lot of the book. However, I really did like how things tied together in the end. I loved her roommate and Cassie’s best friend Acacia, she was undeniably an amazing friend to Cassie and equally tried to do the right thing by Parker and cared about her.
The romance I thought was good, there was definitely times I didn’t love them together, I just didn’t always see the attraction but overall I did like them together.
Also this book was verrryyyyyy spicey, like every chapter things heated up more, so if you’re not a fan of that- you’ve been warned.
Overall I really enjoyed this book! A super cute, funny, spicy, well written, MILFy, romcom that I would definitely recommend! I’ll definitely be looking for more by this author!

4.5 stars rounded up!

Ooh baby was this spicy! I love me a forbidden romance and this hit all of the taboo romance tropes. Somehow, even though I saw all the marketing on twitter about this, I still managed to not know what this book was about so it was a wonderful surprise going in!

I think beyond the smut and the spice though, the characters grow so much. I went into this wondering how it could end well, where everyone was happy, and I think it was done really delicately and it was just so smart. These characters are relatable and it feels very real. Love and feelings are messy and I think this story portrayed it really well!

Incredibly fun, lighthearted, and steamy sapphic romance! This book is so funny and incredibly well-written. The characters are totally loveable (even when they're being absolutely clueless) and are completely three-dimensional. I would highly recommend this book for anyone who wants passion and spice in a book that'll definitely make you laugh out loud.

I really wanted to love this book. I haven't yet ventured into alphabet army romance novels, mostly because everything that I have seen recommended have been M/M and I wanted to find something that mirrored my own sexuality. I honestly didn't even remember this being a F/F romance until the start of the plot unfolded and I was really excited to get into it.

My problem is that this book felt more like I was listening to porn than I was listening to a romance unfold. It isn't that I'm a prude or don't expect explicit sex in a romance, but everything in the book that wasn't sex was figuring out how to get together to have sex. There wasn't much else going on until the last 5% or so of the book. As a result, we don't get to REALLY see how the characters fall in love, just how much they lust after each other. I wanted this book to be so much more than it ended up being and that expectation once I realized this was a F/F romance is the likeliest reason to have knocked the book rating down for me. The opportunity to actually write the characters falling in love with each other was missed. Instead, the writing left me feeling like the main characters were together for solely superficial reasons, so I didn't buy the ending. If we're going to experience so much of their sexual exploits, then surely we should be afforded a front row seat to what really connects them to each other on a deeper level.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for early access to this book.

'Miskates Were Made' is the kind of spicy-sweet that great romcoms are made of. In the face of an age gap trope and a Stacy's mom trope, Meryl Wilsner still manages to keep up the chemistry— both physical and emotional— between Cassie and Erin exceptionally. The little moments of drama between the two POV characters are maturely resolved, and every conflict from tiny to glaringly huge is addressed and moved past. I always love an external factor as the reason for a secret romance or neat breakup, and Wilsner presents both the challenge and resolution of Parker (Erin's daughter, Cassie's best friend, the reason the couple "shouldn't") so so well. On top of which, the fact that all characters actually communicate about and apologise for wrongdoings is such a breath of fresh air in the genre. I could gush forever over how cute Cassie and Erin are together, but honestly everyone should just read for themselves and find out!

Thank you so much to Meryl Wilsner, MacMillan Audio and NetGalley for an advance copy of this book!

""You tired?" Parker asked. No just thinking about fucking your mom."

This was an absolutely FABULOUS book! I had been reading a string of holiday books or books with heavy topics and this is exactly what I needed.

What do you do when your accidentally hook up with your best friend's mom?!

That is exactly what happened to Cassie Klein. She meets an older woman, Erin Bennett, at a bar that she is instantly attracted to and things get hot and heavy in the backseat of the car. Both thinking that this is just a quick fling and not to be repeated, they go their separate way. Until the following morning one of her best friends in college asks her to join her for breakfast with her mom and low and behold it is the woman from the night before.

"I want to go scuba diving with you."

This year I definitely read more sapphic books than I have in any prior years and I have to say this one takes the cake. I have never read a book with this topic and I think that is why I was so intrigued and kept me wanting more. The complexity of the relationship not only between Cassie and Erin but also Erin and Parker, Cassie and Parker, and then Cassier and Acacia.

I was not sure how I was going to like having an old woman with a younger woman and then lets throw in her being friends with her love interests daughter?! It has disaster written all over it. But for some reason it worked. The sneaking around, the texting, the sexting! I really wish we could have had a chapter on just Parker's POV to see her freak out instead of hearing about it after the fact (maybe a bonus chapter?!).

THE SPICE IN THIS!!!! The affection and passion Cassie and Erin have for one another was *chef's kiss*. You could tell just how happy both of them were in their interaction and then in how they treated each other in their intimate moments. I knew as soon as Parker invited Cassie to her house over winter break that it was game over.

I paired this also with the audio and the dual narration was so great! Both female voices were perfect for each character. Cassie's had a younger more youthful tone while Erin's was older more serious tone. Both did a great job with the different inflexions when needed. I had even read at a faster speed and it was not lost in it.

I did not read Meryl's prior book so I wasn't sure how their writing style would be but if it is similar to this, then I am all in. I love the way the story flowed and the dual POV is also a bonus.

I absolutely will be recommending this book to all my friends and hope they get all flushed like I did while reading.