Reviews - My Favourite Mistake

572 reviews for:

My Favourite Mistake

Marian Keyes

3.8 AVERAGE

anna_papp's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

the_danz's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

heloisemw99's review

4.75

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

lolsballz's review against another edition

4.5

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

2.0

challenging medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I wanted to read this book as I was gifted the second book which is Rachel’s Holiday and the sixth book which is Again, Rachel by Michael Joseph Penguin Publishing. So, me being me, had to read the whole series. I was hoping this series would be done after Rachel’s holiday, but then this book got announced. I really need to learn to give up on a series if I'm not enjoying it because this was a drag.

This book is based on Anna Walsh, who we met in book 4 which is called Anybody Out There? And she has lost her taste for the big apple. Anna had a life to envy. An apartment in New York, a well-meaning partner, and a high-flying job in beauty PR. Who wouldn’t want all that? Anna – apparently. Turning a minor mid-life crisis into a major life event she packs up, heads back to Ireland, and get a PRO job for a super-high-end coastal retreat. The job is tougher than it sounds, the locals hate the idea of this retreat. So much so, there have been threats and violence. Anna, however, worked in the beauty industry. There's no ugliness she hasn’t seen. No wrinkle she can’t smooth over. Anna's got this. Until she discovers that leaving New York doesn’t mean escaping her mistakes. Once upon a time she’d had a best friend. Once upon a time she’d loved a man. Now she has neither. And now she must face them. We all make mistakes.

As always with this series, I will start with what I liked during this long ass book. Anna wasn’t actually too bad during this book. She had a decent character development. The side characters mainly the locals from this book from being one star especially Courtney. It would have been a three-star read if the book wasn’t as long as it was.

The introduction of the side characters that wasn’t in the fourth book now being the whole plot of the book just felt shit. Who the hell was this Joey? Why was there a whole thing between Anna and Joey and why wasn’t this even slightly mentioned in the fourth book? And then all of a sudden he was the first choice before Aidan and the first choice before Angelo. But if he had slept with her best friend and the best friend fell out with Anna and not Joey because there is a child involved, which I understand but at the same time don’t be a bitch to your friend. 75% of this book is Anna arguing with herself that Joey hates her and she should hate Joey or that she likes Joey but she can’t sleep with him because it caused a massive argument fifteen years ago. This book could have been 200 pages and I probably wouldn’t have been as bored. I still hate the Walsh Family and how they must stick their nose in everyone’s business and then they make the situation 1000% worse. What was the point of all of them coming to the retreat where Anna was working when you wouldn’t even help her when she came back from New York? All the sisters end up blending into one, I couldn’t actually tell who was who when they were all talking, besides people mentioning that Luke was still a “sex-god”. The amount of information that was repeated as well wasn’t needed like we get it, everyone is here, everyone is growing, everyone is struggling with the same shit that they didn’t get over in their individual book.

It was getting exhausting like we get it. They are all happy, they are all thriving, just end this series. I genuinely don’t see why this series is carrying on. It ended in the 90s, keep it in the 90s.

Content Warnings

kernowme's review against another edition

4.0

emotional funny lighthearted reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

schopflin's review against another edition

3.5

funny fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

A really good read with some excellent reflections on what it means to get older, plus the usual social commentary. There were some aspects that were a bit too neat, even by the standards of a wish-fulfilment romance novel. And I never quite believe her men. But I enjoyed it.

Were we really meant to think 'there's fault on both sides' in her bust up with Jacqui? Jacqui is an utterly self-centred cow and her reappearance in Anna's life no good thing at all.