The Mistake by Elle Kennedy

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

He’s a player in more ways than one…

College junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hook-ups, but behind his killer grins and easygoing charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he’ll be forced to walk after graduation. A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final year proving to her that he’s worth a second chance.

Now he’s going to need to up his game…

After a less than stellar freshman year, Grace is back at Briar University, older, wiser, and so over the arrogant hockey player she nearly handed her V-card to. She’s not a charity case, and she’s not the quiet butterfly she was when they first hooked up. If Logan expects her to roll over and beg like all his other puck bunnies, he can think again. He wants her back? He’ll have to work for it. This time around, she’ll be the one in the driver’s seat…and she plans on driving him wild.

The Mistake

Terrible female narrator!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: ❤️💙💚💜💖
Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📘📙
World building: 🌏🌍🌏🌎
Character development: 🤓😉🤨😊
Narration: 🎙
Narration Type: Dual Narration

The Hero: John Logan – he has been is lusting after his best friends girlfriend. He lives with his best friend, so can hear every time Garrett and Hannah moan in the room next door. He sees they are perfect for each other, and Garrett is one of the best people he’d ever known, which just makes it harder for Logan. He is on the Briar U Hockey team and has been reaping the rewards for being three time national champions.

The Story: it is the off season and Logan has been partying, when summer hits, he works 10 hour days as a grease monkey in his father’s garage because of a promise he made to his younger brother. He doesn’t have it as easy as some of the other guys he plays hockey with. He has been hooking up with a ton of girls to compensate for the fact he has been lusting after Hannah.

The heroine: Grace Ivers – she started her Freshman year of college as a virgin and thought she would probably end it as one as well. She has flirted with guys at parties, but none caught her attention so far. Tonight she is at a party and is actually interested in the guy she is talking to. His name is Matt and he is cute, which makes her nervous.

The first time Grace sees John Logan is when he comes out of a bathroom at a party with a sorority girl after a hookup. The next day he needs to get out of the house so goes to the dorm for a party and forgets the room number, he ends up at Grace’s room. They watch an action movie together. Grace is a total geek who is amazed when the hottest guy in the school wants to kiss and touch her. Though if the rumors are true, he has already hooked up with half the females at Briar.

Logan has things going on at home. His parents are divorced and his mom is remarried to an accountant. Logan and his brother promised each other not to mention their fathers issues to their mother who got away from all that. He also hasn’t entered the draft the last two years and his friends think he was passed over. In reality he knows he will never play pro hockey so he doesn’t bother. I liked his struggle in this book.

This book is told in dual points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Lorelei Avalon and Lee Samuals. I don’t know if I have heard either of these two before but Lee Samuals has a nice voice, it is deep and gravelly and just how I like a Hero’s voice to be and he is a good narrator to boot. Lorelei Avalon has a slightly nasal voice which sounds a bit pouty. I didn’t really like her style much at all. It was so bad, I checked my kindle for the book because I was going to switch to reading it instead of listening to the audiobook. I didn’t have it and didn’t feel like forking over the $4.99, so I struggled through the audio.

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