Book Review: My Merry Mistake by Courtney Walsh

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What is this book about?

I don’t like to make mistakes. Ever.

Especially when those mistakes are witnessed by the same person—flirty Finn Holbrook—who can’t seem to leave me alone. Can I really trust him not to tell anyone that the night we met, I tried to kiss him? Or that I fell apart after I got fired from a job I loved? Or that I’m not as strong as I want everyone to think I am?

The simple fact that he’s boomeranged back into my orbit after all these years feels like a great, big cosmic joke. Only now he’s a professional hockey player, and while he doesn’t look like the goofy college bartender I met all those years ago, he still acts like one—immature, flirty, and unable to take anything seriously.

Which is why I never, ever fall for his game.

I know better than to get swept up in romance. I don’t have time. I’m busy making myself irreplaceable in my new job with the Chicago Comets. Work isn’t just something I do, it’s who I am.

And while my sisters are constantly on me to slow down and take breaks, those things aren’t on my schedule, so . . . I push on. Do more. Load up my schedule. Overcommit. Until eventually, my stress lands me in the emergency room.

The prescription? A month off. No emails. No work. No distractions.

Unless you count Finn Holbrook, who keeps showing up at my door, determined to leverage his positive, golden retriever energy to show me there’s a great, big world outside that I haven’t bothered to explore, most of it covered with white twinkle lights and Christmas decorations.

I begrudgingly go along with his grand plans, and little by little, I start to see there really is more to life than work—and more to Finn than flirting.

Which makes me wonder . . . how can someone so obviously wrong for me start to feel completely right? And more importantly . . . how do I make those feelings go away?

My review:

This story was what I love about rom-com’s – great characters, witty and comical banter, and above all, sweet but really swoony romance. Don’t buy into the myth that clean romance cannot have heat. Just thinking about Finn and Raya’s first kiss makes my toes curl. Even though Raya was the type of person that was hard to get to know, she was very relatable for a person who kept her emotions close to her chest. And Finn, with his exuberant personality, surprised me when he revealed his struggles. Despite her initial objections, I loved how Finn won Raya over.

What I enjoyed most about this book:

The witty banter

What I didn’t like about this book:

Nothing

Would I recommend this book to others? Absolutely. Great characters, witty banter, and swoony romance. This is the third book in the series and it can be read as a standalone.

Note: I received this book complimentary in a giveaway. I was not required to give a review. All of the opinions I have expressed here are honest and my own.

Where can I learn more about this author and their books?

Courtney Walsh, author website

-Loraine Nunley

Have you read anything by Courtney Walsh? What is your favorite story by her?