The Mistake (Off-Campus, #2)

by Elle Kennedy

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Johnny 4 Grace 4 Ever...

This review is a little spoilerish, so proceed with caution.

The Mistake was everything I was hoping for and it left me with a big smile on my face. John Logan is a hockey playing, smooth talking manwhore who has no problems getting women...well that was my first impression. As the story progresses we come to realise this is a very small part of the man. He has a heavy burden to carry that he doesn't share with his friends. His family life sucked. His father is an alcoholic incapable of looking after himself and the family mechanic business. His brother Jeff steps up to run things while John studies and plays hockey on the proviso that when he finishes college, he takes over and gives Jeff a break. As John comes to the end of college he sees the miserable future set out for him.

Grace is an intelligent and funny woman who doesn't have a lot of friends in her first year of college. Her longtime best friend and roommate Romona, had always been the wild one who helped Grace step out of her comfort zone. Grace's part in the friendship is to reign in some of Romona's wild antics. Unfortunately as time goes on, Grace realises they have grown apart. At the end of their freshman year Romana does something that fractures their friendship which leads Grace towards making some changes in her life.

Grace meets Logan after he has just been with a puck bunny, but Logan doesn't remember that encounter because he was drunk. They meet again the next night and Logan thinks he's meeting her for the first time. At this stage there is an attraction between the two, but Logan messes it up and doesn't realise his mistake until too late. This story has one of the best grovel storylines ever. I absolutely loved seeing the cocky man work towards getting his girl and adored Grace's determination to not be taken advantage of.

The true talent of this author is her ability to make me struggle to remember what the mistake was that put the hero in the bad books. By the end of this book I loved this couple together. I forgot Logan's manwhore ways and Grace's willingness to blindly follow in her friends footsteps. We see the couple grow strong together, but also confidence in themselves.

I started this book with high expectations and was luckily rewarded with another New Adult romance that left me satisfied. Elle Kennedy has once again proven her skills with the second book in this series and leaves me waiting in anticipation for Dean's story.

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