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654 reviews for:

Rules Of Our Own

J. Wilder

3.79 AVERAGE

funny lighthearted fast-paced
fast-paced
emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
emotional funny lighthearted sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This was so good and cute🩷 the Abi awakening and the tension between them was so good! I felt like the plot was missing sometimes but the end was so worth it! Alex and River are soooo dreamy toošŸ™ˆ and the spicešŸ‘€šŸŒ¶ļøā€¦

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This quote is hilarious 🤣:

Lucas: Are you saying I’m whipped?
Jax: Are you saying we aren’t?
Lucas: No. Just checking.
River: The deal is, we do whatever Mia asks. She was stressed as shit yesterday.
Jax: Uh huh and we’re the whipped ones.
River: I would be fucking lucky to be whipped by that girl.
Alex: I’m blushing just reading that.
Jax: I know what you meant, but buddy that visual.
River: Stop picturing my girl, Jax. Or I’ll tell Sydney.
Jax: Relax. I was totally picturing you and Alex.
Lucas: I swear, I look away from my phone for two seconds and this is the shit you’re talking about?
emotional funny fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes

I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! This is my favorite of the series.  Mia, River, and Alex are fantastic together.  I love how the boys just want to take care of her and support her in everything she does.  They do nothing but lift her up.  And I love watching Alex come to into his own with how he feels abouit River.  It felt very genuine.
funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I don’t read any other pro sports romances (yet) so I have no idea if this is only happening in the hockey realm but lord help me if I ever meet a NHL player in real life. I’m going to have to ask him if he is in a throuple+ relationship with any of his teammates and if one of them plays the role of the quiet dom because, according to the books I read, it’s more likely than you’d think.

In college, Mia was great friends with hockey players Alex and River. Mia realized that it could potentially ruin the friendship between the guys to pursue a romantic relationship with either of them so she ghosted them both. Flash forward a few years and her friend Piper has ā€œaccidentallyā€ booked Mia, River and Alex in the same suite for her destination wedding. You know they can’t survive the week without ultimately hooking up, and then they navigate their feelings and relationship possibilities on the outside world.

Alex and River were both peripheral characters in the previous two books and I’m ngl, River lived up to all of his restrained, thoughtful, brooding hype. This book has the most šŸŒ¶ļø in the series by FAR (including a scene with details I’m pretty sure I’d never read before which now makes this series 2 for 2 in that regard) but it’s also really sweet to read as three people put their hearts out there in the hopes that their ideas about an unconventional romance will be reciprocated.

Rating note: I gave this four stars which, in my mind, means that I’d recommend it, but in this case it’s not so much a general recommendation as it’s a rec if you like reading about men in sports being absolutely filthy.
adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
emotional funny medium-paced