One night together could ruin everything…Keane Colburn was my best friend. Ever since childhood, we could always count on each other to be there no matter what—though when I confessed my love to him, things didn’t turn out as planned.Thankfully, my little crush didn’t ruin our friendship. I shoved those feelings to the back of my mind, watching him chase after other girls and silently wishing … silently wishing it was me. I resigned us to friendship—that was more important than anything else.
But a drunken one-night stand changed everything. Because even though we vowed to forget about it, I couldn’t get it out of my head. And as old memories began to rise to the surface, our lives collided in ways we had never imagined.
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One Big Mistake and a teeny tiny problem…
When you make a mistake, generally your first response is to try and fix it. Navy and Keane have a teeny tiny problem though…
This mistake can’t be put back in the box. You can’t return it to the store like a shopping spree splurge. There’s no return to sender and no way to hop in the Delorean and undo it. Their big mistake is now lingering, haunting, and affecting eveything.
Some would say its a terrible thing to be in love with your BFF, Navy has somehow made it less terrible- in her own mind. After practiced years of feigning her indifference to the bevy of beauties, this big mistake should be a piece of cake. Huh. Ha. Hahahahahaha! Watch how quickly that lie sinks.
Best friends know you the best. They can sense, feel, and judge your moods. When they are part of the “mistake” it gets complicated. And by complicated, I mean the reader gets to agonize, mentally berate, and imagine shaking the characters all for their own good- Tori style.
As book two in the stand alone series, One Big Mistake is its own story but it’s more fun to experience it having read about their friends first. However, it will in no way detract from the Navy and Keane show if you haven’t read One Little Lie. I’m actually making fan fic plans in my head for the future of the series. Fingers crossed Whitney hears them!
I’m just… ugh!! It has one of my favourite tropes and I wanted to love this book so hard and up until a certain point, I thought I would. Advertised as a friends-to-lovers romance, One Big Mistake while delivered the ‘friends’ aspect of the story failed to touch on the ‘romance’ aspect.
Navy and Keane, our two main leads, who should have been the focus of this story weren’t the only focus. With a little too many characters, it felt as if the focus was all the secondary characters — Navy and her sisters, Keane and his brother and mother — so much so that there was hardly any special or noteworthy moments between Navy and Keane.
What lacked majorly was any kind of significant development between the main leads. Their relationship felt too much like a routine and the chemistry was next to non-existent. For two people who’ve liked each other in a more-than-friends capacity, especially for Navy, there was no tension or spark of any kind.
Add to this Navy’s blatant unwillingness to talk to Keane, which stretched in the entirety of the book, and her sister Violet taking quite a lot of focus away from the main problem at hand, the story was lagging. The climax was anti-climatic and quite disheartening.
Whitney Barbetti has written some real heart-wrenchingly beautiful romances but her last few releases, including this, haven’t been working for me. Hopefully, we will get something that will blow our minds.
Whitney Barbetti Overall, One Big Mistake is a wonderfully entertaining friends-to-lovers romance and a must read for lovers of the trope! It was super angsty, dramatic, emotional and even sweet.
Keane and Navy were just… urgh! Frustrating, cute, amazing, maddening and perfect. I’m still a little torn up over this amazing book.
4 “Pinky promise” stars!
Navy and Keane have been best of friends for years but it’s never evolved into more. Even though Navy’s had a crush on Keane, she pushed her feelings down ever since being let down gently back in ninth grade. She’s tried not to think about it but one night out and a little, OK a lot of, alcohol leads to an passionate night where lines are crossed and relationships change forever.
One Big Mistake delivers an entertaining friends-to-lovers romance that reminds me why I love this trope so much. A strong friendship provides a fantastic foundation for what can develop into a beautiful love story and Navy and Keane share that kind of connection. They have such a great, fun, easy going friendship. It’s natural and believable. The banter is fantastic and fresh, and it’s light hearted and entertaining. They just get each other know each other better than anyone else. They have been there for each other through the ups and downs and they don’t want to risk their friendship. Yet, I felt their attraction even when they deny it and it was no surprise that they end up sharing an unforgettable night together.
Afraid to ruin what they have, Navy and Keane try to forget that night but it changes everything. The emotion is real and the confusion is believable. Fighting the feelings that consume them makes it hard to ignore the connection they have, and how perfect they could be together.
“Somehow, we kissed like it was natural, like this was something we’d done together for years instead of something I’d only dreamed about.”
However, both Navy and Keane have a lot on their shoulders and when you add everything else that is going on it their lives, they find themselves pulled even further apart. The majority of the book takes place between the one-night stand and when they finally make their move so you don’t get a lot of time where they are actually together together; however, the journey to love is beautiful, swoony, and realistic, and I loved experiencing their love story play out.
“It was some full circle kind of thing, like finding a piece to a puzzle you’d known your whole life, a puzzle piece you didn’t know you were missing.”
Overall, One Big Mistake is a wonderfully entertaining friends-to-lovers romance and a must read for lovers of the trope!
*ARC generously provided by the author*
Whitney has delivered a really sweet friends-to-lovers story that follows Keane and Navy. I was thoroughly entertained throughout this read. Their friendship was so sweet and watching them try to navigate their friendship after ‘accidentally’ sleeping together. All their feelings they had kept hidden all these years are now brought to the surface.
They have so many people putting pressure on them for other things its nice to see them just be them when they are together, they can actually breathe. They were home <3
Straight up, I avoided most of my adulting today because this book was so consuming.
It was super angsty, dramatic, emotional and even sweet.
Keane and Navy were just… argh! Frustrating, cute, amazing, maddening and perfect.
I’m still a little torn up over this amazing book (no tears, though I came very close) and I hope to read more about these two in future books.
5+ stars, AMAZING