Review | My Favorite Mistake by Chelsea M. Cameron

My Thoughts: My Favorite Mistake begins as female college student Taylor finds out that there has been a room assignment error and she is to be paired with a male roommate for the year in her campus housing. Within a few minutes of meeting Hunter, Taylor finds herself unimpressed and with [what she considers] reason to punch and kick him, so of course the two begin with a rocky start. What begins as a tense school year progresses to toleration and then to a relationship by the end of the story. 

Because Hunter really needs a place to stay for school (and he is certainly entitled to the place he is assigned), he makes Taylor a deal: if and when she either loves him or hates him, he will leave. That simple. 

The things I liked:

1. The deal makes for great tension and banter between Hunter and Taylor, particularly at the end of the night before they go to sleep. 
2. I love Hunter. 
3. I love how Hunter is honest about his attraction to Taylor, and I love that as his feelings progress and change, he continues to be honest with her. 

The things that weren’t my favorite: 

1. Taylor: I had a tough time with her. 

I think that Hunter is a great character. He is a little on the cocky side, but sometimes a little bit of cockiness is crushworthy and sexy. Hunter cooks and sings and plays his guitar to impress Taylor , and this is also swoony. He loves his family and is loyal to his friends. He is more sweet and swoon than cocky jerk, and I’m glad about that. 

As much as I like Hunter: THAT is how much I dislike Taylor. She is so tough to love. I could never find a way to connect with her, at any part of the story. I felt like she began the story with a chip on her shoulder, she got away with a poor attitude and with throwing tantrums, and she treated Hunter far worse than she should have been allowed to. YES, she has character growth by the end of the story, but it felt like it took forever to come to fruition. I get that she has had some things happen to her and that I should have grace for her past, but this doesn’t give her a free pass to be impolite and rude although unfortunately that is the impression I am left with after everything is done. Even the romantic tension she had with Hunter, even the witty banter, even the comedic relief – none of these things were quite enough to make me really love her as a character, which made me sad. 

Still, I liked this story. The secondary cast was great. The ending was happy with good resolution to the plot. I had this one sitting on my Kindle for a while so it felt good to pick it up and read it.