I read this after watching the movie which I absolutely loved. The book was much more detailed and also set in the US. My Fault is perfect for fans of a bad-boy romance and those who enjoyed the Royals series by Erin Watt because Nick reminded me of Reed Royal as he could be romantic at times but was also quite toxic to their love interests. Their relationship also reminded me of the After series (I've only watched the movies) and this was definitely filled with drama. I loved the angst and enemies-to-lovers vibe from Nick and Noah and I definitely wished they weren't stepsiblings because that just makes me slightly uncomfortable. I loved that the book was fast-paced but I did start to lose interest as Noah complained a lot in the book - hence the 3 stars. Overall it was enjoyable and I'm definitely looking forward to the next books in the series.

My Fault by Mercedes Ron was exactly what I was looking for. This book gave me all the feels. Not only was it a steamy, and forbidden relationship but the level of growth, and learning that took place was truly amazing to read about. You tie in some comical moments, as well as "on the edge of your seat" and you have a winner. I can't wait to read the next book in the series.

I unknowingly watched the movie on Amazon prime prior to reading this book. But this story did not disappoint! Noah isn’t your average girl, Nicks your average billionaires son. She’s got a secret and he’s got secrets she’s going to find out.
The car racing was my favorite and introducing Noah to his friends was a close second. It’s obvious from the beginning the tension between Noah and Nick. How their parents don’t realize it sooner, blows my mind! So what happens now that their parents know they’re inlove and the parents are married?!

I’m already waiting for book #2! CANT WAIT!

Noah’s mom marries a billionaire from the United States. Now Noah must leave her friends, boyfriend, and life behind in Canada. What she did not suspect was how hot her older stepbrother Nick would be. But Nick is a bad boy who does not do commitment and only wants to have a good time. Also, he beyond a jerk. Nick resents Noah and her mom for entering his life and Nick will let Noah know even though he finds her attractive. The only things holding them back is that she is 17 and he is 22 as well as them being stepsiblings. Will these two fight their attraction for one another and will their pasts haunt them?

My Fault is marketed as “After meets The Kissing Booth” and I say that is pretty accurate. I personally have not read the After series by Anna Todd, but I’ve seen some of the movies. I did however read The Kissing Booth books and watched the movies which I absolutely love (I freaking love Noah from The Kissing Booth). Another book that I kept thinking that reminded me of My Fault is The Royals Series by Erin Watt (Book one is Paper Princess and one of the writers from the Erin Watt duo is Elle Kennedy) which I read back in 2017 and absolutely loved. I know I said the marketing is perfect and it works but I think Paper Princess meets The Kissing Booth is probably way more accurate.

Nick is a toxic male which I am not afraid to admit and there were times I just wanted to be the one who slapped him instead of him slapping other characters around. He’s just like Noah from The Kissing Booth if you want a comparison and he reminds me of Reed Royal from The Royals Series too. With him being toxic it could be annoying, but it really did not take away my enjoyment of this book and did not really bother me.

I really liked Noah and sympathized with her with her traumatic past which we do not know much about until the end of the book.

There were a lot of moments where I wanted to shout at them to just admit your feelings to one another, kiss, and get together. But I think the angst and the enemies to lover trope was well played.

This book is pretty fast paced, and I did find the ending to be a bit rushed. I still really enjoyed it and would read the other books in this series. Also, I heard there is a movie so I probably will watch that soon.

Hot & HEAVY!! I can’t believe this is a YA romance!! This was just as fun as the movie l: I look forward to the next two in the series to come out! If you love the After series, you should check this series out! Thank you to the publisher and to NetGalley for the opportunity to read in exchange for a review !!

I will be honest. I only wanted to read this because I saw the movie. Loved the movie. Book, not so much. Noah is way more annoying in the book than she was in the movie. She whines way too much for me.

I got this book as an eARC in exchange for an honest review from Net Galley! So thank you to the team for providing me with the ARC!

I don’t think this book by any means - I think a lot of people are basing their feelings off the movie and that’s just not fair lol.

This was an emotional rollercoaster that my tummy doing flips and flops and I could feel the tension in the pages.

I am excited for another Merceds book in my future!

3⭐️

Reminds me of Beautiful disaster Jamie McGuire. With the tension and enemies energy Noah and Nick give off. Also has some suspense and lots of drama which I enjoyed reading.

“ʜɪꜱ ʟɪᴘꜱ ᴋɪꜱꜱᴇᴅ ᴍɪɴᴇ, ɢᴇɴᴛʟʏ ʙᴜᴛ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴜʟʟ ꜰᴏʀᴄᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜᴀᴅ ɢʀᴏᴡɴ ʙᴇᴛᴡᴇᴇɴ ᴜꜱ. ᴛʜᴇ ᴋɪɴᴅ ᴏꜰ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʜᴀᴘᴘᴇɴᴇᴅ ᴏɴʟʏ ᴏɴᴄᴇ ɪɴ ᴀ ʟɪꜰᴇᴛɪᴍᴇ, ᴛʜᴇ ᴋɪᴅ ᴏꜰ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴇʟꜱᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴀʀᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ, ᴀ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴡᴇ ꜱᴏᴜɢʜᴛ, ᴀ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴡᴇ ᴍᴀʏ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʜᴀᴛᴇᴅ, ʙᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ᴜꜱ ᴀʟɪᴠᴇ, ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴀᴅᴇ ᴜꜱ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴇᴀᴄʜ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ, ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴛᴜʀɴᴇᴅ ᴜꜱ ɪɴᴛᴏ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴ ᴄᴏᴜʟᴅɴ’ᴛ ʟɪᴠᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜᴏᴜᴛ… ᴛʜᴇ ʟᴏᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ɪ ʜᴀᴅ ᴊᴜꜱᴛ ꜰᴏᴜɴᴅ.”

This book had me captivated right from the very beginning, I absolutely flew through this book.

This book follows Nick and Noah, both individuals have gone through some sort of trauma during their childhood and now have found themselves step brother and sister due to their parents getting married. Nicks father is rich, and Noah and her mother Rafaela have come from a less privileged background. Noah has to learn how to adapt to her new life and deal with everything she knows being practically burnt to the ground, whilst also fighting new feelings that are bubbling under the surface for her angsty, moody step brother Nick.

I absolutely adored this book, the characters were so loveable and funny! The tension between these two was EVERYTHING. Nicks character development was honourable! He really grew, in the little space of two months, to be someone Noah truly needed and deserved. I love the both of them. I personally don’t feel like this book should be YA but it is according to Google lol.

Genre: YA Fiction, Romance
Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Spice: 🌶️ (it is pretty fade to black being it’s a ya, apart from one instance)

Tropes:
🩷Enemies to lovers
🩷Forced proximity
🩷Forbidden Romance
🩷Stepbrother

Trigger Warnings:
Date r drugs, alcoholism, domestic abuse, violence, attempted r, stalking, kidnapping, gun violence, death, trauma

“All I know is when I see you, the only thing I can think about is touching you and kissing you all over.”
My Fault is a story of forbidden love between new step siblings, Nick and Noah. From their first meet, sparks start to fly in a showdown of enemies to lovers. Heavy on the enemies at first.
Their attraction grows throughout the story and what starts as stolen kisses eventually turns into an unbreakable love for one another.
Through the story you get dual points of view, between Nick and Noah. Personally my favorite person to read about was from Nick’s point of view, and getting to watch him mature through the story experience. Noah’s younger perspective sometimes showed a little too much for my liking when reading from her point of view.
Overall I really enjoyed the story, the only hang up I had was that I wish Noah was 18 instead of 17 in the book. I felt it was, at times inappropriate given that Nick was 22 talking about his attraction to a 17 year old. Regardless of Noah’s age, I still really loved her romance with Nick and I can’t wait to see what else the author has in store for the two characters. Thank you Netgalley and Bloom Books Publishing for a copy of this ARC on exchange for my honest review.

As a high school teacher this book and the issues in it screamed red flags. I was not a fan of either character and didn’t like how Noah was portrayed here. Plus Nick was a jerk and was never redeemed for me.

Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

4 ★ I was hooked. This book was addicting - I totally picked it up because of the movie and I’m so happy I did. I was hooked. It’s definitely different but in a solid book way. All I can say is I need the next one ASAP.

Before reading My Fault, please check trigger warnings.

I had such high hopes for My Fault. The Amazon movie has been making its way around bookstagram and everyone has been hyping it up. I knew I shouldn’t base my expectations on that but I did anyway. I was completely let down by this one.

Nick and Noah are two of the most annoying main characters I’ve ever had the misfortune of reading about. Noah, in particular, was just bad. She was whiny, mean, and downright stupid at times. At one point, she accepts a drink from a stranger at a party and surprise, surprise, it’s drugged. That’s bad enough but she then has the nerve to blame Nick, her stepbrother, for her being drugged. He didn’t give her the drink, he didn’t tell her to drink it, he wasn’t even really interacting with her at the time of the situation. In fact, he steps in to help her. How exactly that adds up to it being his fault, I’m not sure.

This is only one of many examples of Noah making a terrible decision and then refusing to take any blame for it. Nick was an asshole and he treated Noah like shit but she needed to own up to her mistakes and stop blaming everything on him, her mother, or her mother’s decision to marry Nick’s father.

As for Nick, everyone keeps saying how badass and amazing he is but to me, he just came across as a spoiled rich boy playing at being a bad boy. He may have ruled his “gang” but that didn’t stop him from using his daddy’s money to fund his lifestyle.

I won’t go into detail about the rest of the characters but they were extremely one-dimensional and played almost no role in the story. It was pretty much just the Nick and Noah show.

The plot was pretty much non-existent. The whole story is about Nick and Noah wanting to get with each other, why they shouldn’t get with each other, and them getting with each other. That’s it. The sad part is that the spice didn’t even make up for the lack of any other redeeming factors. Nick and Noah didn’t have any chemistry and everything about their relationship was cringey.

Overall, I can’t recommend anyone waste their time with My Fault. It’s an extremely lackluster representation of the forbidden romance, stepbrother/stepsister trope. Mercedes Ron is an author I don’t think I’ll be reading in the future.

Thank you to Net Galley and the Publisher for this Advanced Readers Copy of My Fault by Mercedes Ron!!

This was a lot angstier than I thought it was going to be! I loved how our main characters actually start off hating each other and not just pretend they do because they are attracted to each other. I would have liked to see more of the "mystery" earlier in the book instead of just the last third of it. However, I liked that mystery as opposed to a third act breakup due to miscommunication.

Forbidden romance story, stepsister/stepbrother is not my go to trope, but this was an interesting read! Well written

This is definitely a book for readers on the younger side of the YA spectrum. Baring in mind that this is a translation to English, i found the language quite simple and the characters that way too.
It's simplicity will appeal to readers looking for an escape.
A good read.

This was a bad boy forbidden romance that I would say was good. After reading it I watched the movie and i liked that they didn't stray from the book. The story has a few twist that I enjoyed, I'll say it was a good book, I do like a bad boy falling in love.

I don’t know if this one is classified as adult or YA but it’s maybe a blend of both. At times it seemed a mature love story and at other times a naive YA. Maybe a perfect blend. Thanks to the publisher and netgalley for this copy for review

I just watched the movie of this, not knowing a book existed oops. I really enjoyed the movie and I won’t go back and read the book now so I’ll rate it based on that. Since I enjoyed the movie, I’m going to assume I would’ve liked the book even more. With this being said, some parts definitely are cringey and wattpad like but it all tied in well. Overall very enjoyable.