Oh my lord! I swear, I finished this book less than two hours ago! I have literally gobbled up the first two books in this series, and I’m pretty sure my FYP knows it because it’s only been feeding me Off-Campus TikToks. I’m not complaining, cause I love seeing my faves GG and Wellsy, as well as Johnny and Gracie!
Anyway, I started reading this about two/three ago, and now I’m finished. That’s it. End of story. That’s how much I like these books. My review of The Deal was literally me just ranting about how much I love the romance genre—did you think this review was going to be different? Honestly, who do you take me for? An academic?! BS!
I absolutely love this series and I love escaping to my little world at Briar. Even though the series is a realist genre, I still feel like I’m leaving my world behind whenever I go back to those books. I also heard that Elle Kennedy has another branch series called Briar U; is that still about all the characters in Off-Campus? Idk, but I’m down for the count.
Okay, well getting on the actual point of this book review—the book review—I’d like to start by saying that I am not sure about my ranking of the two Off-Campus books I’ve read so far. I think I may need to read more…No, I just mean that I loved both of them, and even though there were more identifiable favorite parts in The Deal than in The Mistake, I still think I grinned at fictional characters equally overall—good going, Jade.
The Mistake starts basically where we left off with The Deal, leaving Garrett and Hannah for Logan’s POV and a new girl we don’t know yet called Grace. Grace is a new freshman at Briar, a cautious, more shy girl than most of the other girls in the book. Logan and Grace happen upon each other by accident and hookup, then can’t stay away from each other. They’re an unlikely match but fall hard for each other, while Logan has a difficult decision to make this year.
Loved the dynamic, the pet names/traditions (especially “question—hit me”), and just how smitten Logan is with Grace. Seriously, she’s just such a regular girl, unlike how awesome and colorful Hannah seemed, that it made me love how focused Logan is on her.
Anyway, as you can see if you look at my Current Reads page, I’m already fully obsessed with this series and I’m on the third book, which I feel may be my favorite, just because I’m interested in how Dean’s story is going to play out. He seems like an *interesting* character. Hmmmm. I’ll let y’all know in the next review how it goes!
Genre: romance, smut, fiction
Age: 15/16+
Rating: 8/10