Mistakes Were Made

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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) Cassie’s eyes raked the woman’s body: sensible peep-toe heels, strong calves, a dress that fell a bit lower on her thighs than Cassie was hoping. It hugged the woman’s curves just right, though—hips Cassie wanted to hold on to and tits she wouldn’t mind getting her hands on either. Then there was shoulder-length brown hair with a hint of blond highlights, like it was summer at the beach and not autumn in the New River Valley, a strong jawline, and bright eyes—staring right at Cassie. The older woman leaned against a wall, a barely there smirk on her face. Second, Erin was described as “two years out from forty” which made me think she was forty-two. Later reading clarifies that she’s thirty-eight, though, so I think the phrase should have been “two years away from forty.” In another book this would be a minor copy error and nothing more but here it really makes a difference. Cassie is, I’m guessing, twenty-one, and a difference of seventeen years in age isn’t as bad as a difference of twenty-one (double Cassie's age!). Plus, once I had a visual image of Erin as forty-two, it was hard to think of her as thirty-eight. Cassie shrugged. Why play games? There were no stakes here. Erin was a hot stranger; she didn’t have the power to hurt Cassie. There was no reason to pretend she wanted to go slow. Plus: “It’s working, isn’t it?”

Cassie fled from her friends at the pool. She found Erin in the kitchen. Before Erin could say hello, Cassie wrapped her arms around her middle and dropped her forehead onto Erin's shoulder. "Caleb knows we're dating." I enjoyed this so much and highly recommend it. Not only is it well written it’s just a lot of fun to read. Both undeniably sexy and incredibly sweet. The story overflows with warmth, friendship and humour ' Olivia DadeThis book was…Honestly, words are still eluding me - I think I need a minute to recover from Erin, the sexy MILF who is also a doctor 😳( !!!!!!!!!!). I mean, this is what sapphic dreams are made of! (And I guess there’s also Cassie, the hot, blonde, motorcycle-riding engineer/mechanic…if you’re into that sort of thing 🔥) Ooh this book is spiiiicy, sexy, sapphic and fun!! A very good time, indeed. It starts out with Cassie meeting a hot older woman (Erin)at a bar and hooking up in her car. However, they find out the next day at breakfast that Cassie is good friends with Erin’s daughter, Parker. Things progress with Erin and Cassie from there. Also, especially towards the end of the novel, I felt the intimacy and emotional development was nicely done. As I'd previously mentioned, it was nice to see Cassie nervous and blushing when it came to Erin, just as it was lovely to see Erin's affection for Cassie as well. I'm not even going to lie, I was tearing up a little in this moment:

Two talented chess players challenge each other on and off the board in bestselling author Hazelwood’s YA debut. 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. I absolutely loved this audiobook! I went into it with skepticism because I was lukewarm about Something to Talk About. But friends and reviewers said they loved this one and so I decided to give it a go. And yep - I have to say it's in my Top 10 of 2022.Solid character dev - there's a good amount of self-discovery and individual character development that really gives this story the depth it needs to hit the 5 ⭐ mark (the sex scenes are so much better for all that substance!) It was, however, a huge issue for me where Erin was concerned, because Erin was in control of the situation, to a large degree. For Erin not to think about it was somewhere between thoughtless and clueless (and not in a good way). I don’t care how caught up she is in her attraction for Cassie and her fears that Parker will find out (understandable since there was tension between Parker and Erin over Erin’s split from Parker’s father, and Erin felt insecure in her daughter’s love), Erin should still care enough about Cassie to think about what she’s doing to her, how the power dynamics might be affecting Cassie. And instead it was a constant mantra of “What if Parker found out?” and guilt for being a bad mother to Parker, and no thought to the fact that she was mistreating Cassie by putting her in this position. And this despite the fact that she was the adult in the situation. When college senior, Cassie, spends her Friday evening at an off-campus bar, she isn’t looking for a hook-up – 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 mum . . . who turns out to be the hot, older woman Cassie just slept with.