Sorry, but I loved this book. Nick is definitely an asshole but it didn't really bother me and he changed by the end so. They aren't perfect but Nick and Noah are so good together. They just light such a fire in each other. I loved watching them slowly open up to each other.

I received an arc through netgalley.

This book was quite disappointing and not what I expected at all. This book was a step-sibling which should have been my first sign that I just wouldn't like it but I feel like there was quite a few problems with the book. Firstly, the MMC was just not it - mood swings, problematic possessiveness. I feel like the pacing and the writing style of the book seemed quite immature - after reading I learnt it was a wattpad book so that kind of makes sense. All in all I feel like the author tried to be like the after series which I believe didn't quite work -just made the book slightly problematic. I would like to highlight that this book is translated from Spanish so some of its elements could have been lost in translation. Additionally, after reading and researching the author I have heard that the author has made some controversial comments in the past that I do not agree/believe in. Thank you to Netgalley and bloom books for an ARC in exchange for an honest review

This book was an amazing, fast pace, forbidden romance. This was my friend step siblings romance...and I am in love! The fact that there was street racing involved just made everything better. I love this book and will be recommending it to people. However check triggers due to the domestic violence involved and almost rape. But over all LOVED!

This book was fantastic! It had so many of my favorite tropes... enemies to lovers, forbidden romance & who did this to you. And who am I kidding I always have a thing for the grumpy bad boys and boy did Noah fit that bill.

I'm not really sure how I feel about this book. There were points that I really enjoyed, but some parts of the storyline seemed gross. I didn't LOVE the male main character. I also wish the main characters were slightly older. I think overall I'm just not the audience for this book.

Thank you Netgalley and Bloom for providing me with this ARC.

I really wanted to shed tears about how bad that book is.

The boy Nick has some big mummy issues. His mother left him and his father and now he is „scarred“ and cannot have real relationships with women besides, of course, having sex with them.
I quote: „Women were only good for one thing. If you let it go past that, you’d have problems. I knew what I was talking about from experience.“ - Alrighty, then.
The 21 year old man child, who thinks it’s funny to set his dog on the FMC but gets angry when she tries to defend herself, still lives at home in spite of his bad relationship with his father. Nick is extremely misogynistic and acts like he has a say about how women should behave in his presence and towards him.
He’s some gang leader or whatever and acts super violent towards other people, punching them just to set an example or whatever. Ah yes, and he races cars were people randomly pull guns on each other, not forgetting the illegal boxing fights he participated in, too.
Every typical bad boy behavior one can think of - Nick‘s your guy.

The girl, Noah, acts extremely immature and impulsively. Their is no reasoning behind a lot of her actions but to spite either her mother, her stepdad or er new stepbrother.
One time she gets roofied by one of Nicks friends and instead of taking her to the hospital immediately, Nick is only concerned with his dad not finding out. He even made her call her mother to tell her everything is fine and she’ll be home late. Absolutely incredible - in the worst way.

All of a sudden, Nick realizes that he’s not hating Noah anymore but instead needs to protect her. He rescues her from some precarious situations (Noah gets a stalker btw) and then they declare their love to each other. There is no real built up, just getting frisky here and there, but then they always remember that they don’t actually like each other and, oh, are STEPSIBLINGS!

Unfortunately, if I could, I would rate this book zero stars and I cannot wait to not watch that movie.

I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Was not a bad read overall. Really liked the story line and found it was interesting and easy read! Would recommend to other readers.

2.25 stars

My Fault is a book that will definitely find its audience… I just don’t think I am said audience. I think this is due in part to the fact that some of the phraseology and punctuation is, quite literally, lost in translation. In my opinion, the translation to English needed to be much tighter, as did the editing.

This book was written a few years ago, at the height of the stepbrother trope, so now it feels kind of dated and formulaic instead of fresh. I also did not love the fact that the female protagonist is 17 and the hero is 22. Perhaps if she were 18 and/or he was a few years younger, the story would be more palatable. But you kind of forget how old Nick is because he acts younger than his age, and so does Noah. I also did not enjoy how much OW/OM stuff is kind of thrown in there. It kind of felt… juvenile in a way. Like this is what a teenager would write to try to depict a dramatic relationship, but it doesn’t quite land.

There’s also the mention of “gangs,” but kind of a strange stereotyped/romanticized version of them. They’re kind of just dropped in there in a weird way to serve the plot for a minute. I think this might be another element of the story that was lost in translation.

When I discovered that this story originated on Wattpad, I wasn’t surprised. By that I mean that it is written in a way that is longer form and more serialized. There’s a lot of repetition of scenes that happen in one POV and then again in the other POV. I know that a lot of readers enjoy this form of storytelling, but it doesn’t work for me once the work becomes a published novel. I want editing and some of the more superfluous/repetitious bits to be trimmed down. Not all Wattpad works are like this, but this one would have definitely benefited from some content culling.

The setting, too, feels kind of peripheral, and the story never feels rooted in a place or time. Which I think hurts the overall story.

In the end, it wasn’t my cup of tea, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be yours. And there is a film adaptation in the works that piqued my interest. Because there are some good ideas here.

Thanks to Bloom Books and NetGalley for providing me with an ARC. All opinions are my own.

Rebellious. Intense. Gut-wrenching..
Noah its been through a lot and now she has to endure her mother decision to remarry and to move in on the new husband's mansion and share the space with the new stepbrother living together in a new city. This story is full of twists and turns .. with a lot and I mean a lot of drama and adrenaline moments. A perfect enemies to lovers with steamy moments.. secrets doesn't keep hidden for so long
Neather true love ..

My Fault by M. Ron, published by Sourcebooks Bloom Books, is the first book in the Culpable Trilogy.

A n angsty enemies-to-lovers romance that will give the reader all the feels.

Noah Morgan lives a quiet life with her mother. Then the mother marries a wealthy lawyer from California.

Noah finds herself moving to LA, leaving her old life behind. Upon arriving in her new life she meets her new step brother, Nicholas. Nick is a college student and seems the typical jock.
Noah doesn't want to know about him, doesn't want to have to do anything with him, but there's still the attraction between these two and when she discovers Nick's big secret, all bets are off.

An intriguing read that had me in suspense from start til the last page. I read the book, cover to cover, in one sitting. A great read, 4,5 stars.

🌷My Fault - Mercedes Ron🌷

Thank you to SOURCEBOOKS Bloom Book and NetGalley for the ARC.

⭐️⭐️⭐️ stars
🌶️🌶️.5 spice

This book was a great quick read! It was fast paced, straight into the story and provided plenty of chaos.

I would have preferred if both main characters were adults, not one tipping the age of 18.
Noah’s life is uprooted when her mum marries a wealthy man. Leaving her boyfriend, friends and hopes for a senior year to remember, Noah is forced to move in with her step father William …. And new step brother Nick. It’s not doubt their chemistry is explosive.

🌷Enemies to lovers
🌷Forbidden love
🌷Trauma
🌷Adult step siblings romance
🌷Grumpy sunshine
🌷Bad boy
🌷Who hurt you

*This book is step brother/sister taboo romance. Please ensure you read the trigger warnings before reading*

Um this is a kinda creepy age gap (she's 17, he's 21 or 22), plus their first interaction was extremely red-flaggy? He ditches her at some random place at 11 in the night, and then when she somehow hitches a ride to wherever he is, his friend slips her a date rape drug and he's more concerned about his dad finding out, than her actually getting drugged? I skimmed through the book after that, I just couldn't read it.

-- ty to the author, the publisher and Netgalley for an advanced copy.

Absolutely loved this book. This is a new author to me. I can't wait until I can read more by her! Thanks Netgalley

Book Name: My Fault
Author: Mercedes Ron

ARC
Thank you to SOURCEBOOKS Bloom Books and NetGalley for an ARC of My Fault by Mercedes Ron

Stars: 3.5
Spice : 3

Book One of the Newly Translated Cuplable Series
Fast Paced
Dual POV:
Contemporary Forbidden Romance
Similar to the “After Series”

- Topics
- Family
- Greif Guilt Shame
- “Growing Up”
- Tropes
- Grumpy Sunshine
- Adult “Step-Siblings”
- Who Hurt You
- Bad Boy (Complete with Illegal Car Racing)
- Thoughts.
- Wattpad (need I say more)
- Entertaining but Shallow
- FMC was VERY Immature
- Angsty

As an adult I was a little uncomfortable with this storyline. The stepbrother/stepsister thing was okay, or would have been okay if they were both adults, you know, that #forbiddenlove trope.

But Noah was only 17, a minor. I have to admit, this made me a little uneasy. Her mother met and married a millionaire with a 21 year old son. The attraction between the two of them was immediate, and all-consuming. The author created a story of two people falling in love almost against their will, and her descriptions of the conflicts they dealt with were so vividly written that as a reader, I was hooked right away. As a parent/grandparent, I was a bit perturbed; it would have been easier for me had the heroine turned 18 mid-book...

The back stories were great - Mercedes Ron, the author, did a marvelous job of creating background for each character and the translation of this book from Spanish to English was well-done, if you can ignore the age issue. I'm sure the many young adults reading this book would think I'm and old f^rt but I was simply distracted by the May-December romance, although there weren't THAT many years between them...

I did like the character development and it feels as though the author has created a world where she can introduce other characters into their own stories. I stand by my hesitation regarding the 17/21 romance that eventually goes "all the way" but it was a gripping love story nonetheless. Had both main characters been 18 or older, I'd have given this 5 stars, even knowing that some of the plot devices wouldn't have worked if Noah was 18...

Thanks to Sourcebooks for the ARC. All opinions are my own.

I devoured this book in one day because I just couldn’t put it down. I’m officially obsessed and I need the rest of the series!

This is the kind of romance book that I can’t get enough of. This was truly my guilty pleasure and I’m not even ashamed to admit it. The forbidden love, enemies-to-lovers, heart-warming found family, AND with an equally developed, harrowing plot that kept me turning the pages. I loved every minute of it.

This is going to be the newest obsession in the BookTok community. I can’t wait for everyone to get their hands on this one and love it as much as I did. I can’t wait to hear everyone raving about this book and giving it the hype it truly deserves.

It is an emotional roller coaster. The characters’ grief and trauma bleeds off the pages. And their angsty banter is golden. As y’all know, the fierce, overprotective male is my aphrodisiac. Combine that with the equally independent and sassy female and I’m hooked. (When Noah lashes back at her bully … YAS girl!)

It's gritty, it's real, it's raw - and I still couldn’t get enough of it. I don’t even have the words to describe to you why and how much I loved this book - except to tell you that you absolutely have to read this one!

PSA: This book does have some dark/taboo themes and moments, so if that’s not your thing you may want to move along - just don’t hate on the rest of us who eat that sh*t up ;)

First off, I really thought I’d like this book. Usually I’m a fan of enemies to lovers trope but the age difference between the two main charters was just cringy. 17 and 22(by the end of the book) I really couldn’t get past that fact. And the main character Noah was literally someone that you wanted to smack cause she acted so dumb and Nick was just the typical I’m a a-hole but I have a light deep down inside. The side characters didn’t get any attention and were pretty two dimensional and very forgettable. And the book is very very repetitive, for example: let’s go get drunk and go to a party at sketchy as hell and then get hot and bothered over each other. And when you reach to the climax, it was very anti-climactic with how it was handled. Let’s just say there wasn’t really enough details to fill out the backstory. To be completely honest, I’ve seen that there’s a second book that’s coming out or has been released. And I have no interest in seeing what happens with these characters.
*Thanks NetGalley & Bloom Books for ARC*

Noah's life is upturned when her mother suddenly marries wealthy William Leister, and she is moved from Toronto to California. Not only does she have to leave her boyfriend, her friends, and her school in her senior year, but now she is living with William and her new step brother, Nicholas.

This book was an angst filled, darker enemies to lovers with a step brother/sister taboo romance, so make sure to read trigger warnings. Noah and Nick's chemistry is off the charts, and the double life that Nick leads between rich socialite and bad boy racer and fighter is incredibly enticing. Noah has a past that we don't get to fully learn about until the very end, but enough tidbits and clues were dropped throughout the book to keep me reading on the edge of my seat.

I've been thrilled to see the different authors added to Bloom's publishing, and Mercedes Ron seems like a great addition to their lineup of great and swoony authors.

Thank you to Bloom Publishing for providing me with an ARC of this book.

unfortunately this book was not for me. i didn’t click with the writing style or the characters as it felt very young. this book was all over the place and the characters were so hot and cold. he “hated” her and then was going on about how he thought he was in love in the next paragraph

it’s my fault for not reading the description before i started this book, but it is a step-sibling romance. she is 17 and he is in his 20s. just not my thing, and i found it quite off putting.

I read the whole book but I was not crazy about the characters. I realized this is more of a YA book and I don’t usually read that genre. I also felt that there was too much violence and was not into the car racing. I felt the main couple had some chemistry in the beginning but then it fell flat as the book went on. I gave this book two stars. Thanks to NetGalley and Bloom Books for the available free ARC.