Her Greatest Mistake

Greatest Love Book 1

By: Hannah Cowan

Narrated by: CJ Bloom, Teddy Hamilton

Length: 10 hrs and 1 min

Publisher's summary

I'm the face of the NHL. The golden boy with quick hands and a million-dollar smile the fans adore. My contract is up at the end of the season, and with playoffs starting, I have to be on my best behavior. Keep my head down and respect the press when they shove their microphones beneath my nose. This isn't my first rodeo, so it should be easy. Right?

No. Not this time. One terrible call and I'm the poster boy for bad decisions.

I haven't seen my childhood best friend since the day her father betrayed me and she broke my heart. Now, eight years later, she's back. And she's my fake girlfriend for the next two months.

Some wounds never heal, and the moment I see Braxton Heights, I know mine have not. But she's the only shot I have at saving my reputation and securing my new deal, and while I might have lost her all those years ago, I refuse to lose hockey.

I just hope I'm strong enough not to fall for her all over again in the process.

©2022 Hannah Cowan (P)2024 Tantor

Sweet second chance

Her Greatest Mistake becomes a really cute second chance romance! I've been excited to dive into the Hannah Cowan hockey world for a minute, and since this is a series starter it seemed like a good place to start. Cute characters, complicated history, a lot of fun and sweet moments, and a bit of spice. All in all a great introduction to Hannah. And the audio was really well performed.

And amen for no third act break-up! Maddox and Braxton had a great chemistry, steeped in both their past history and their current situation. Given the second chance vibes and what happened, I expected a bit more drama/angst, and I was actually really happy the past is forgiven and forgotten pretty quickly. Both Braxton and Maddox are likable characters, and I'm all here for a curvy FMC that is worshipped by the hero. And yes for cute animals. Maddox turned out to be SOO dreamy. I did think parts of this moved slow in the beginning, and I wish the spiced spiced a little harder LOL, but overall a really cute story.

Hannah introduces us to a whole world of characters. At times I did feel a bit lost with the secondary cast since it seems they come from an older series of hers (this is second gen). I couldn't keep them all straight (especially when I was taking this in via audio), but i'm certainly psyched about some future characters getting books. (NOAH!)

The audio was well performed and quite sweet.

Loved it!

This was my first audiobook by this author and I couldn't put it down!

Maddox is a professional NHL hockey star. He's had such an amazing career all these years following in the footsteps of his father. However, his one true love has always been missing. The one girl, his best friend, who after a bad situation left for college and never came back. He never stopped thinking of her.

Unfortunately, Maddox's brother gets into some trouble and Maddox goes to pick him up and reporters are everywhere making up stories about nothing that actually happened. On top of that his old manager spreads rumors that aren't true about him to make him look even worse. So they decide he needs to improve his image by volunteering at an animal shelter.

Braxton just moved home to open her own veterinary clinic along with an animal shelter. To her surprise one day walking into her business is Maddox. Her best friend who she hasn't seen but though of every day for all these years. As they both stand there stunned his manager jumps in and suggests they pretend to date to solve his nightmare of press right now, especially since it's her dad that's spreading these horrible stories about him. She's willing to help in any way she can because she knows what her dad did was wrong and she feels huge guilt berceuse of it.

I enjoyed the flash backs of past moments between the two characters. Soooo much heartbreak and you can tell how much they both loved each other, yet they never once crossed that line in their friendship. When he was finally going to do it, is when everything went horribly wrong.

This book has it all.... I laughed, screamed, cried... such a great book and now onto the next one!

Best Audiobook I've listened to in a while

I love reading and I've recently gotten into listening to audiobooks as a college student. This book was so good I want to listen to it and read it over and over again. I think that the author did an amazing job setting up each characters background story as she went and I honestly wish there was a sequel to this book!

Loved this book

Such a feel good story of true love. I can’t wait to read more books by this author

Perfect except for…

**Spoilers!! ** This book was amazing and would have been one of my favorite hockey romances EVER except for the choking. Ugh, WHY?!? You mean to tell me that a VIRGIN guy that holds this woman to such high esteem as has waited his entire life for her gets his chance and instantly wants to choke her the first time they have sex?!? No. It’s stupid, and completely unnecessary.

It ruined the book for me. Everything else was perfect. The cast was well thought out, the acting was impeccable, the plot was great. The choking was gross. There’s ways to add spice without that.

Just as a heads up, over 40% of girl ages 14-17 are now experiencing choking during sex. (From the book “Yes, Your Kid.” By one of the top sexual researchers in the US.) How you presented it in the book isn’t an ok way for someone to experience that in real life. Set healthier standards and expectations. Or perhaps leave it out altogether.