‘Off Campus’: What Happens in Logan & Grace’s Book? Your Guide to ‘The Mistake’
What To Know
- In Elle Kennedy’s The Mistake, John Logan and Grace navigate a rocky romance.
- Grace will appear in Off Campus Season 2 on Prime Video.
- Antonio Cipriano and India Fowler play Logan and Grace in the TV series.
Off Campus already has Garrett (Belmont Cameli) and Hannah (Ella Bright) and (mostly) Dean (Stephen Kalyn) and Allie (Mika Abdalla), but there are quite a few other book couples that the adaptation can introduce, thanks to Elle Kennedy’s extensive hockey romance series. Though Off Campus Season 2 will delve further into Dean and Allie’s story, we know for a fact that another hockey boy’s love interest will come into the picture. (Warning: Off Campus book spoilers ahead!)
John Logan (Antonio Cipriano) may be pining for Hannah in Off Campus Season 1 — just like he does in the books — but they obviously don’t end up together. Nope, Logan gets his own love story in Kennedy’s The Mistake, though the road to his happy ending with Briar freshman Grace (India Fowler) is far from easy. Before Grace makes her debut in the sophomore season of the Prime Video series — her name was briefly mentioned in Episode 6 of the first season — find out exactly what happens between her and Logan in the books.
What happens in Elle Kennedy’s The Mistake?
Grace is an awkward, sweet psychology major — sociology major in the show — trying to find her place at Briar. At a frat party, she crosses paths with Logan outside the bathroom, where he just hooked up with someone. It inspires the typically cautious Grace to start having fun during her freshman year.
When a party-bound Logan accidentally knocks on Grace’s dorm room door a few days later, she invites him in. They watch a movie and fool around, but it’s doesn’t go down exactly like Grace, who hasn’t had sex before, envisioned. Grace lies about finishing, and Logan leaves quickly. Logan suspects she didn’t get off and shows up at Grace’s room a little while later. He tries to rectify the situation by going down on her, and their fling is off to the races.
All the while, Logan has some serious turmoil going on in his life. Beyond his inconvenient feelings for his best friend’s girlfriend — which make him feel guilty about hooking up with Grace — Logan is trying to distract himself from what’s waiting for him post-graduation. Logan made a deal with his older brother, Jeff: Jeff takes care of their family’s garage and alcoholic dad with chronic pain during Logan’s college years, then Logan switches with him. It means he can’t follow his dream of playing professional hockey, which he hasn’t even told his friends.
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Meanwhile, Grace struggles with her selfish childhood best friend and roommate, Ramona, who gossips that Grace is lying about hooking up with Logan. Logan shuts down the rumors by kissing Grace in front of everyone at the dining hall, and he takes her to his hometown. They bond further as they sit atop a water tower.
But here’s when the book title starts to make sense. Thinking he’s fully in love with Hannah, Logan determines that he doesn’t have real feelings for Grace. When she invites him over to fully take her V card, a guilty Logan tells Grace where his head is really at. Grace, understandably, doesn’t take it well.
Later, Hannah asks Logan point-blank if he has feelings for her. As they talk it out, Hannah helps Logan realize that he doesn’t want her: He wants what Hannah and Garrett have. Logan realizes he wants a relationship with Grace after all. She ignores his calls, leading Logan to text Ramona. Ramona comes on to Logan, who sends her message to Grace. Grace ends her relationships with both of them and jets off to spend the summer in Paris with her mom.
Do Logan and Grace end up together?
Logan and Grace end up together, but it isn’t an easy road. They see each other when a more confident Grace returns to Hastings. Logan apologizes to her again, but when he asks for a date, Grace rejects him. She has a new roommate, starts working at the radio station, and goes on a date with the station manager. Logan, however, doesn’t give up. They kiss at a party, but she won’t let him back in that easily.
Grace comes up with a list of tasks for Logan to accomplish to prove himself: write a love poem, make a collage, make origami hearts, give her blue roses, take a sexy photo on a red velvet chaise lounge, and get a celebrity to back him up. Logan gets it all done, leading to him dating Grace and becoming official.
But Logan’s life outside of Briar catches up to him. He tells Grace that she’ll leave him eventually, wanting someone with a brighter future. (Another mistake.) Grace gets angry that he’d assume such a thing. Logan gets it together and calls into Grace’s radio show to tell her he loves her. His grand gesture puts them back on a good path.
Things look up even more when Logan’s dad decides to go to rehab, apply for disability, and sell the garage. He encourages Logan to try out for the development team for the Boston Bruins. In the epilogue set a couple of years later, Logan has completed a year in the minors and is brought up to the majors. He and Grace are still going strong. The end!
Well, not the end. Grace and Logan get another post-story epilogue in The Legacy and make cameos in Kennedy’s next-gen series, but we’ll have to wait and see how (or if) the Off Campus show approaches their post-Mistake future. Let us know what book scenes you’re hoping to see in the comments below!
Off Campus, Season 1, Streaming Now, Prime Video
Off Campus, Season 2, TBA, Prime Video
