Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

Lizzie Blake's Best Mistake

Mazey Eddings

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Lizzie has made endless mistakes. Kitchen fires, pyramid schemes, bangs (of the hair and human variety), you name it, she’s done it… and made a mess of it too. One mistake she’s never made is letting anyone get closer to her than a single hook-up. But after losing yet another bakery job due to her uncontrolled ADHD, she breaks her cardinal rule and has a two-night-stand that changes everything. Once burned, twice shy, Rake has given up on relationships. And feelings. And any form of intimacy for that matter. Yet something about charming, chaotic Lizzie has him lowering his guard. For two nights, that is. Then it’s back home to Australia and far away from the pesky feelings Lizzie pulls from him. But when Lizzie tells him she’s got an unexpected bun in the oven, he’ll do whatever it takes to be a part of his child’s life… except be emotionally vulnerable, obviously. He’s never going to make that mistake again. Through a series of mishaps, totally “platonic” single bed sharing, and an underground erotic baking scheme, Lizzie and Rake learn that even the biggest mistakes can have the most beautiful consequences.


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    Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for the free e-arc in exchange for an honest review. 

    I’m personally not a fan of the pregnancy trope, and 100% requested this book before realizing that that’s what it is. Despite that, I read this book in two days and really enjoyed it!! 

    Eddings comes back for the second installment of this series ready to delve into Lizzie, the crass best friend who loves baking and helps Harper decide she’s ready to see a psychiatrist. 

    Lizzie comes across bubbly and outgoing, but inside she’s constantly juggling feelings of inadequacy and self-flagellation due to how ADHD and Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) impact people’s perception of her.  

    A fan of no strings attached one night stands, Lizzie spends two nights with a random Australian man, Rake, which leads to an unexpected surprise. And so the story continues, the two of them tumbling into a coparenting plan with lots of forced proximity, tension, sweet moments, and grand emotional breakthroughs.

    It’s a quick, easy read, with a lot of depth surrounding exploration of mental health and tough familial relationships, which I applaud Eddings for. The romance itself is nothing special, and while we know a lot about Lizzie, we barely learn anything about Rake. And also I hate the trope of why Rake is closed off the way he is, which I could’ve guessed at the very beginning, and while it’s reveal and explanation is fine, it still irked me. 

    Similar to A Brush With Love, I found some of the dialogue, especially at the beginning, to be just a touch too cringey and over the top. I guess it’s just a function of the romance genre, but still. Also, now having read two books about women in this friend group, I also wish Eddings spent a little more time showing them having positive and loving interactions together. For both Lizzie and Harper, interactions and situations their friends put them in seem to cause a lot of stress and trigger their mental health problems, to the point where I don’t think it’s made quite clear enough why we as readers should consider these healthy and encouraging relationships. Instead, the takeaway seems to be that while working on themselves, the only person who actually gets them and is willing to accommodate them is their love interest. So yeah. 

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