My Fault

Romance

First published: 2017
Print length: 416 pagesSourcebooks, Incorporated, 2023

Description

Seventeen-year-old Noah Morgan leaves Toronto after her mother remarries and moves the family to Los Angeles. Resenting the loss of her quiet, familiar life, Noah is thrust into a wealthy social world of extravagant parties, privileged teenagers, and illegal street races. At its center is her new stepbrother, Nicholas: arrogant, secretive, and as closely tied to danger as his reputation suggests. Noah distrusts him, yet their hostility develops into an attraction that tests the boundaries of their newly combined family. As Nick’s risky life draws nearer and Noah’s concealed past begins to surface, desire becomes inseparable from fear and suspicion. This young-adult romance combines domestic upheaval, dangerous secrets, and the volatile pull between self-protection and forbidden intimacy.

Reading profile

About this profile

Collected’s assessment, not reader ratings. Complexity runs from 1 (least demanding) to 5 (most demanding).

Writing: How much attention the sentences and language require.
Ideas: How much interpretation or abstract reasoning the book asks of you.
Structure: How much you need to keep track of speakers, timelines and connections.
Background knowledge: Prior knowledge needed to follow the book, beyond what it explains.
Emotional intensity: Emotional pressure, from gentle (1) to intense (5). Separate from difficulty.

Writing style

Conversational · Dialogue-driven · Direct

Pace

Brisk

Tone

Dark · Romantic · Suspenseful · Tense

Structure

Linear

Focus

Character · Plot · Relationships

Emotional intensity

4 / 5

Reading complexity

1–5 · higher means more demanding

Writing: 2 / 5
Ideas: 2 / 5
Structure: 2 / 5
Background knowledge: 1 / 5

Themes

ClassComing of ageFamilyIdentityLoveTrauma

About Mercedes Ron

Mercedes Ron is an Argentine-born Spanish author of young-adult romance whose career began on Wattpad with the Culpables trilogy. Her fiction is built around volatile relationships, direct conversational prose, and dialogue that turns attraction into argument and argument back into attraction. She favors fast-moving plots in which family disruption, wealth, secrecy, and danger keep emotional conflicts under pressure. In My Fault, Noah's move from Toronto to a lavish Los Angeles household brings her into conflict with her reckless new stepbrother, Nick, while illegal street racing and her concealed past tighten the novel's pace. Ron extends rather than neatly resolves that central relationship. Our Fault reunites Noah and Nick after a four-year separation, using a wedding, workplace constraints, and Nick's business power to force unresolved accusations into the open. This recurring structure lets external complications repeatedly interrupt intimacy, while the dialogue keeps rivalry, suspicion, and desire active within the same scene.

Books by Mercedes Ron

Book details

For the print edition listed above.

Publisher: Sourcebooks, Incorporated
Language: English
ISBN: 9781728290737

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