tobereadbookshelf 's review for:

My Fault by Mercedes Ron

3.0

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✩ 3 stars ✩ 

What to Expect:

➼ Forced Proximity

➼ Step Sibling Romance

➼ Childhood Trauma

➼ Car Racing

➼ Forbidden Romance

➼ Enemies-to-Lovers

➼ Bad Boy x Good Girl

➼ Dual Narration

➼ Dual First Person POV

First off, let me start by saying that if you’re a romance lover and you haven’t watched My Fault: London on Amazon yet, what are you even doing?! Yes, it’s a step sibling romance, so if you’re really not into that you maybe won’t like it, but the chemistry between those two actors was sizzling! 🔥 The plot is admittedly pretty over the top and cheesy, but I ate it up and I think you will too! 🤤

No one will ever claim that this is high literature, but it was definitely very entertaining and nearly impossible to put down. The plot of the book and the movie are very similar apart from some changes to the locations throughout the book. I found that some details worked better in the London setting while others didn’t make as much sense. His lifestyle made more sense to me in the London setting for example, but her ex being flown in to see her made more sense when she had simply moved across country. I could name others but I think some of them would be spoilers so I’ll just leave it at that... 

On the page, the characters didn’t have nearly as much chemistry as they did on screen and their relationship felt much more insta lovey to me as I read than when I watched the movie. I think this would be a big hit with fans of books like Bully or Beautiful Disaster, but if you’re like me and you’re not really a fan of soap opera level drama, you might be less impressed. 

If I could change just one thing about this story, it would be to make Noah 18 rather than 17. Sibling romances are already a gray area, but him being 5 years older and her being underage didn’t really sit right with me. I would have felt much more comfy with their relationship if they had both been adults when they met. Gotta say though, him leaving her in the middle of the street was cold in any medium. That would have been hard for me to get past if I was her. I wish she would have made him work a little harder to make it up to her and earn her trust. Dear girls, please do NOT hop into a car or accept drinks from a strange man. We gotta be smarter than this in 2025! 

My TBR is crazy long, but I’ll probably read the next book in the series eventually. I’d be willing to bet it will be a dud though. 🙃