2.5⭐️ rounded up.

This isn't my favorite by this author. Age gaps are commonly done but I don't feel like this one was handled correctly or appropriately. I couldn't get passed it to enjoy the book as it was intended. I thought the MC was at least 25. Didn't realize this was a 20 year age gap with an undeveloped frontal lobe. Not my cup of tea. This was literally like an independent film where the mom falls in love with her youngest daughters best friend. Freshly going to college. Again, not for me. I've read and loved many age gap romances but they feature MCs in their later 20s and early 30s with a bit more development.

One night stand with your besties mom? Check.
Yea this fun storyline was totally fine til they I guess were trying for a relationship after the fact and it was cringe cringe cringe. Would’ve preferred this as a one shot novella of just the one night stand.

I couldn't finish this book. The premise is a taboo one -- you hook up with your bestie's mom. That can be titillating for sure! But despite the really well-written sex scenes, the way the two main characters behave when they decide to continue their relationship beyond the one-night-stand made this book unreadable for me. There's positive things to be said about a relationship in a book that involves secrecy and sneaking around, but when you're leaving your friend/daughter's important performance to hook up in the bathroom, you're just bad people. So I stopped reading.

Maybe that and similar things won't bother other readers, but I'm not one of them.

I really loved this book. I think it had a great mix of angst, romance and friendship. I like the way the sneaking around and felt that even as unrealistic the scenario was it also felt like it played out somewhat realistic. I especially loved Cassie’s character. She was cool yet complex.

Thank you to NetGalley for giving me a digital ARC of Mistakes Were Made.

Let’s set the scene for you: a one-night stand goes wrong when you find out the girl you slept with happens to be your daughter’s best friend. This is an age-gap romance, but everyone is legal and the younger of the two is 21.

I’d be lying if I said that this book was perfect and while I’m normally pretty strict about giving books five stars I’m giving it to this book for the nostalgia of it all. I originally read this book as a fan-fiction, so I was thrilled (and surprised) to find out that it had become a book!

If you like lesbian age gap romances then definitely pick this book up and give it a read!

I tried getting into this one but I was not really into it. I preferred cleat cute. i might try again because i loved cleat cute. thank you for the arc!

Sexy, emotional, beautiful.

I liked this a lot more than the author's first book!

Sorry I took so long to read this gem!

I think I've finally realized that Meryl Wilsner is not an author for me - the way she writes her steamy scenes give me the ick (this is nothing to do with F/F, as I love lots of F/F romance) but she is just not for me, and this once again proves it.

Meryl Wilsner can do no wrong! Sexy and funny and so heartfelt. I wasn't sure I'd be into this one initially because sometimes May-December romances give me the ick, but honestly they handled it so well. Can't wait for their next one!

I’m not sure how I feel about this one still. I liked it while I was reading it but I found it very forgettable. I did really like the characters and the story line.

Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner is the story of Cassie who goes to a bar to escape her college’s family weekend and ends up hooking up with a hot older woman. The hookup has unforeseen consequences when the woman shows up the next morning at breakfast when Cassie is helping her friend buffer a meal with her mother, Erin. Record scratch. Cassie hooked up with her friend’s mom. Cue an awkward breakfast followed by an extended stay at Erin’s house. Erin and Cassie try to deny their feelings as their sneaking around reveals there might be some real feelings going on but is it possible to find a happy ending where no one gets hurt? This book is full of flirtations, twists and turns, and a sweet love story underneath it all.


Thank you @Netgalley and @MerylWilsner for the ARC.

one of the hottest books ive ever read holy shit. and on top of that a sweet story about learning to love again <3

Sapphic perfection with sass and the perfect amount of awkwardness to make things even more interesting. Worth reading and rereading.

I'd seen good things about Wilsner's previous novel, but hadn't yet picked it up - but it was enough for me to add "Mistakes Were Made" to my TBR and I'm really glad I did. This was a steamy read and our main characters had great chemistry. I loved the friendship element to the story as well, and particularly liked that Cassie and Erin both had great individual journeys as well. Overall, I loved the story, although I did feel like it was a *tad* long.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for an eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I gave this my full faith and effort, but I just could not finish it. I've seen many other people enjoy this book, so this is a me problem. I will say that the first sex scene sticks in my mind, so the spice is great, I just didn't believe in the romantic chemistry between these characters.

Sexy, funny, and ultimately hopeful; a great new sapphic romance that will go down as one of the classics.

3.5 stars. I actually found the writing of this novel to be really well done and the spicy scenes a good amount of spice. I would definitely be interested in other romances by this author. However, throughout this entire book the premise of banging her best friend's mom just icked me out and I could not help but think about if this had been an older male love interest it would be getting a lot more criticism.

What happens when the best hookup of your life happens to be with your best friend's mom? And, better yet, your best friend asks you to breakfast the next day with said mom and you have to pretend everything is fine??

Cassie, senior in college on her way to study aerospace engineering, hooks up with a bombshell older woman at the bar. The day after the best sex of her life, she goes to brunch to act as a buffer between her best friend Parker and Parker's mom. Turns out Parker's mom to be the woman Cassie slept with the night before!! Chaos! Cassie and Parker's mom, Erin, must decide if they can keep their hands off each other for Parker's sake or if the chemistry is too strong.

I really wish I liked this book more. I really liked the introductory "oh no i had a one night stand with my bestie's mom before knowing she was her mom" aspect, but otherwise it was very meh. With how gripping the first 50-100 pages were, I was expecting to like this book so much. I think what mainly took me away from it was the fact that 1. they couldn't stop seeing each other even though they knew it was wrong and 2. they broke the rules that they made for their relationship IMMEDIATELY.

It skeeved me out so much when they decided to hook up while Erin's daughter was in the house. That was one of their top rules and they broke it as soon as they had the opportunity. I hated how much they had to hide, how they brought Cassie's friend Acacia into it, and how Erin didn't even tell her best friend or her therapist about it.

Also, this book is marketed as a forbidden romance but to me, I don't see how anything in this context is forbidden? I get it, you are sleeping with your best friend's mom in secret, but Cassie and Erin are both consenting adults. That to me just does not feel very "forbidden".

I did have fun reading it and I did for the most part enjoy the beginning, but towards the end I was just fighting to get it done. The spice was good but other than that, I really wouldn't recommend this. Yeah, we love MILFs, but this just wasn't worth it in my opinion. 2.5 stars rounded up to 3 because we love bi4bi age gap romance here.

A queer cougar story? Count me in! I loved this book, a college student and her best friends mom, not knowing this connection, hook up one late night after drinks at a bar. Once they discover this connection, they have to decide-do they continue pursuing each other, or stop for the sake of their relationships. Great book!

The spice level was excellent and I appreciated that while there was a conflict that needed to be resolved between the two main characters it occurred without a massive 3rd act breakup.