Rowena’s review of My Favorite Mistake (My Favorite Mistake #1) by Chelsea M. Cameron.
Hero: Hunter Zeccadelli
Heroine: Taylor Caldwell
Two secrets. One bet. Who will break first?
Taylor Caldwell can’t decide if she wants to kiss her new college roommate or punch him.
On the one hand, Hunter Zaccadelli is a handsome blue-eyed bundle of charm. On the other, he’s a tattooed, guitar-playing bad boy. Maybe that’s why Taylor’s afraid of falling in love with him, or anyone else. She doesn’t want to get burned, so she needs him gone before it’s too late.
Hunter himself has been burned before, but Taylor’s sexy laugh and refusal to let him get away with anything make her irresistible. Determined not to be kicked out of her life without a fight, Hunter proposes a bet: if she can convince him she either truly loves or hates him, he’ll leave the apartment;and leave her alone.
But when the man behind Taylor’s fear of giving up her heart resurfaces, she has to decide: trust Hunter with her greatest secret, or do everything in her power to win that bet and drive him away forever.
Taylor Caldwell is starting her sophomore year in college and when she gets a new roommate, she’s not happy about it at all. She was expecting another girl roommate but when the hot and sexy Hunter Zeccadelli comes walking through the door, claiming to be her new roommate, she’s pissed. But the housing department is closed and she can’t get someone to explain this madness so she’s got to deal with this cocky son of a bitch who gets on her nerves. It doesn’t help that Taylor is hard to get along with. She’s got a prickly personality from a past that she can’t get away from and having this arrogant asshole in her face, ever single day makes her even more crabby. To make matters worse, she’s sharing a room with him because it was in her room that the extra bed was in. So she sees him all the time. She sees him before she goes to bed. She sees him first thing in the morning and she’s slowly going out of her mind.
Hunter has a past that is giving him issues as well. The difference between Hunter and Taylor is that Hunter doesn’t let his past dictate his future (and get in the way of his present) the way that Taylor does. Throughout the book, we don’t know what their pasts are. We just know that those secrets that they’re keeping close is what shaped them into the people that they are today.
Hunter flirts with Taylor every chance that he can and even though Taylor wants nothing to do with him….she can’t deny that she is attracted to him. But she’s got a lot of issues and she can’t deal with the things that Hunter makes her feel. She’s running away from something that happened years ago and it’s getting in the way of something that could be pretty spectacular, if she’d let it happen.
It was really hard to connect with Taylor. She has issues that made her the way that she was but it was really hard to like her because she was such a hypocrite. She had this secret that she would not talk about. She wouldn’t talk about it with Hunter and Hunter let her keep her secrets but did she give him the same courtesy? Oh, no. She kept prodding and prying and getting pissed off when Hunter refused to talk about it. She pressed so much that when things blew up in her face, I wanted to punch her. To be honest, I didn’t see what there was to like about Taylor. Her attitude and the way that everyone had to tip toe around her and her issues in their own house made me mad. And I hated that she was so violent with Hunter. And I hated it even more that Hunter just let it happen. The things that she did to him when she was angry was not okay. Her secret was a violent one and that she dealt with her anger so aggressively and so violently made me ashamed of her. I will say that she came a long way in the end but even after all was said and done, I don’t think she deserved Hunter.
Overall, this book was a solid story but the characters and their actions throughout the story pissed me off for a good portion of the book. I liked getting to know Hunter and Taylor’s roommates and I really liked meeting Hunter and Mase’s family. I would have liked to see more page time devoted to explaining why Taylor hated her father so much. I mean, we get the jist but it would have been nice to see that fleshed out more and resolved nicely.
While there were things about this book that I didn’t like and characters that got on my nerves, I am curious to read the next book in this series. I wonder who’s story it’ll be.
Grade: 2.75 out of 5
This book is available from HQN. You can purchase it here or here in e-format. This book was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
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