Book Review for Mistakes Were Made by Lucy Score

 

Story Lake #2

Mistakes Were Made by Lucy Score

Published:  March 10, 2026 by Bloom Books

Genre:   Small Town Romance,  Opposites Attract,  Forced Proximity,  Found Family,  Hero / Rescuer,  Neurodivergent Heroine 

Taken from Goodreads:  #1 New York Times bestselling author Lucy Score, whose smash hit Things We Never Got Over captured millions of hearts, invites you back to Story Lake for a swoon-worthy new small town romantic comedy.

He's looking for the perfect wife. She's looking for the perfect one-night stand.

Literary agent Zoey Moody doesn't like small town life, but here she is: exiled from Manhattan's publishing scene and trapped in a tiny Pennsylvania town with her BFF and only remaining client, Hazel. The problem? She's totally broke.

All she needs is for Hazel's next romance novel to become a gigantic hit, and Zoey will be back in New York. Nothing will stand in her way. Nothing except her six-foot-two-inch landlord, Gage Bishop. He's smart, serious, and sexy. Worst of all, he's ready to settle down.

Zoey might be the most beautiful woman Gage has ever met, but it's clear they're all wrong for each other. She's allergic to commitment and can't work a calendar app; he's looking for a wife and has the next five years all planned out. She's afraid of animals. He lives in a literal barn. But when Gage's world is rocked by a devastating family secret, he turns to Zoey for one night to forget everything. That one night just might change everything…or ruin it.

Perfect for fans of the heart, humor, and hope found in Things We Never Got Over and Things We Left Behind, Mistakes Were Made is a steamy escape to small town romance―full of emotional twists, slow-burn tension, and Lucy Score's trademark charm.

 

My Thoughts:  I was looking for a fun, sexy, flirty read and Lucy Score is an author that writes that type of book.  Mistakes were Made is that book.   Gage and Zoey had the attraction from the very first look.  Hazel, the BFF, is the perfect sidekick for all the fun and angst. 

 I enjoyed the secondary characters as much as the main characters.   The friendships and other relationships were just as entertaining as Zoey and Gage.  I could feel the love between everyone and liked that they stood up for each other and protected each other but were not afraid to call each other out when they were not in agreement. 

This is a LARGE book, 500+ pages, and it read like a large book.   There are a lot of characters and many side stories.  There were times that it felt like too much.   Some of the wording could have been left out as it seemed repetitive or too much. 

Thank you Hambright PR for a copy of the book via NetGalley in exchange for my  honest review.

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Meet the Author (taken from her website):  Lucy was born January 30th, 1980. Her father begged her mother not to go into labor on “the coldest night of the year,” which is naturally when Lucy decided to make her appearance. As the first of what would be three children, she took the responsibility of breaking her parents’ spirits very seriously. No one recalls what her first word was because it was in the days before baby books and social media. Motivated by this un-memorability, perhaps her future career was decided then and there. Or it could have had something to do with the hundreds of books her parents read aloud to her and her siblings. At 13, she stole her first romance novel off her mother’s bookshelf and never looked back.

 

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