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3.78 AVERAGE
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
adventurous
funny
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
This follows Bea who is sick of her life in LA and wants to move to Colorado to make her own rules. Everyone in the town is aware of the newcomer. So a distressed neighbour reports that there is a strange woman licking ice cream seductively, looking lost and wearing bunny slippers. The 25 year old officer named Austin Cooper must attend this distressing incident to see what is happening.
This has lots of banter and flirty moments which I loved. I also could not stop laughing! You fall in love with Bea and Austin’s back and forth banter. We also discover what Bea is holding back from her past to potentially not pursue her future. Austin is such a lovely character this man is up there on the list of book boyfriends. What this man does for her I would fall at my knees.
We got a lot of reference to Supernatural, The Walking Dead and others like friends. Love when we get some references I know well!
Also the spice, STOP, honestly I’m jealous she got to ride him like a rodeo…. The spice was perfect a few scenes and some fade to black.
Over all just a fantastic feel good rom com if you are after a laugh and some choices you need to make between love and what’s next.
If you love:
🔹 Romantic Comedies
🔹 Banter & Flirtation
🔹 Feel Good Moments
🔹 Age Gap 10 Years
🔹 Small Town Officer
🔹 LA Marketing Lover
🔹Great Spice
Genre/Type: Romantic Comedy
APK: Kindle ARC
Pages: 352
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟.5
Spice: 🌶️.5
POV: Multiple / First Person
Tropes: Reverse Age Gap, Small Town
This book is sooo good!
I laughed and even cry a tiny bit!
Bea has had enough! After being past on a promotion she decides to leave LA and move to a little town on eastern Colorado where she decides to do whatever she wants! Including have beer for breakfast and going to the diner for ice cream and pie and 9 in the minting in pjs and her bunny sleepers!
Austin, the youngest member of Credence Police Department loves his layback town life, he’s called to deal with someone with odd behaviour outside the diner!
Their first encounter is hilarious and believe me when I say you won’t put this book down!
Small town romance trope for the win!
I laughed and even cry a tiny bit!
Bea has had enough! After being past on a promotion she decides to leave LA and move to a little town on eastern Colorado where she decides to do whatever she wants! Including have beer for breakfast and going to the diner for ice cream and pie and 9 in the minting in pjs and her bunny sleepers!
Austin, the youngest member of Credence Police Department loves his layback town life, he’s called to deal with someone with odd behaviour outside the diner!
Their first encounter is hilarious and believe me when I say you won’t put this book down!
Small town romance trope for the win!
Thank you NetGalley, recorded books author and publisher for this ALC in exchange for honest review. The first chapter or so i felt was soo slow and endes up not adding to the story but once our FMC and our MMC met it went on high speed. Love how unique the story was how the chemistry worked. Wpuld almost expect a more difficult time moving from LA to CO but worked really well.
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Breaking All the Rules by Amy Andrews is a super fun, from different worlds, age-gap romance, with a swoony MMC Officer McHottie, and a FMC looking to get away from the city hustle and bustle.
When Beatrice throws a dart twelve times into map of rural USA she finds herself in Credence, Colorado. Hibernating for two weeks in an apartment above a local cafe, watching re-runs of Supernatural, she finally ventures out in sweats and bunny slippers in search of sugar, and is arrested by Officer McHottie, aka Austin Cooper. He's 10 years her junior, slightly bemused, and totally flirting with her. Beatrice formulates a to-do list of things she wouldn't usually do, for her walk on the wild side, and it eventuates that Austin is only too happy to be her ride or die.
This one has some open door steam to die for - Beatrice continuing to venture outside her usually beige romantic life. She's going all the way with living life to the fullest, and Austin takes it all in his stride, with good humour, cheeky retorts and plenty of smoldering looks. Not to mention that police uniform and utility belt he shucks pretty quickly if need be. The banter between the two is fun, flirtatious, and well ... scorching. It's questionable who fell first but Beatrice fails to recognise it for the growing relationship it is. She's running from LA but while exploring Credence and her own identity, she is drawn back, and you wonder where Austin is going to fit and whether she is going to want him to. Breaking All The Rules had some great support characters who make Credence an interesting place, and hopefully make for future instalments so we can see what happens with their life journeys. I appreciated Beatrice more as we found our more about her family history which gave some context for the decisions she made. I appreciated Austin for his unabashed loving of Beatrice living her adventurous life, and liked the depiction of his struggle with the reappearance of aspects of her pre-Credence self with the Beatrice he had come to know.
There's a few times there was just basic communication issues and it was a little frustrating that Beatrice and Austin just didn't talk, but then they didn't know each other that long in the scheme of things, so I could put that aside. (Miscommunication is really my last favourite trope).
Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing a copy of this book to read and review.
When Beatrice throws a dart twelve times into map of rural USA she finds herself in Credence, Colorado. Hibernating for two weeks in an apartment above a local cafe, watching re-runs of Supernatural, she finally ventures out in sweats and bunny slippers in search of sugar, and is arrested by Officer McHottie, aka Austin Cooper. He's 10 years her junior, slightly bemused, and totally flirting with her. Beatrice formulates a to-do list of things she wouldn't usually do, for her walk on the wild side, and it eventuates that Austin is only too happy to be her ride or die.
This one has some open door steam to die for - Beatrice continuing to venture outside her usually beige romantic life. She's going all the way with living life to the fullest, and Austin takes it all in his stride, with good humour, cheeky retorts and plenty of smoldering looks. Not to mention that police uniform and utility belt he shucks pretty quickly if need be. The banter between the two is fun, flirtatious, and well ... scorching. It's questionable who fell first but Beatrice fails to recognise it for the growing relationship it is. She's running from LA but while exploring Credence and her own identity, she is drawn back, and you wonder where Austin is going to fit and whether she is going to want him to. Breaking All The Rules had some great support characters who make Credence an interesting place, and hopefully make for future instalments so we can see what happens with their life journeys. I appreciated Beatrice more as we found our more about her family history which gave some context for the decisions she made. I appreciated Austin for his unabashed loving of Beatrice living her adventurous life, and liked the depiction of his struggle with the reappearance of aspects of her pre-Credence self with the Beatrice he had come to know.
There's a few times there was just basic communication issues and it was a little frustrating that Beatrice and Austin just didn't talk, but then they didn't know each other that long in the scheme of things, so I could put that aside. (Miscommunication is really my last favourite trope).
Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for providing a copy of this book to read and review.
**I got an arc of this from Entangled Publishing through NetGalley**
Okay, so I ended up DNFing this VERY early on. I just wasn’t connecting with these characters AT ALL. I really didn’t like how the main male reacted when he saw the lead female and I just didn’t like the main female. So I just decided to DNF it, unfortunately.
Okay, so I ended up DNFing this VERY early on. I just wasn’t connecting with these characters AT ALL. I really didn’t like how the main male reacted when he saw the lead female and I just didn’t like the main female. So I just decided to DNF it, unfortunately.
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
For those of you familiar with Amy's "Trouble" series, we are taken back to Credence, Colorado one more time - a small town where visitors, seeking a quiet escape from the hustle and bustle of life, have a tendency to find more than they bargained for, including a fed-up Ad Executive by the name of Beatrice Archer.
Bea has had it with the rules and regulations of her life. Her grandmother and father set up boundaries so she wouldn’t end up like her mother. Her former boss commented on what she ate, what she wore, and what hoops she had to jump through while dangling her dream promotion (and corner office) in front of her like a carrot. Enough was enough! After one too many promotion snubs, Bea decided to do to life what it has been doing to her. Making a rash move to Nowhere, Colorado, Bea is determined to indulge in everything she had deprived herself, throwing caution to the wind and being as carefree as she wants to be. That sounds well and good until an anonymous citizen decides her disheveled appearance warrants a call to the police department. Austin responds to the call to find the much talked about out of towner enjoying the fruits of her easy-going attitude. Attempting to keep the peace, he is somehow drawn in by Bea’s antics and can’t seem to resist egging her on. Ten years her junior, Bea is a little too taken by the young officer and while she wants to let her hair down and have fun, she does have one set of rules she just not ready to bend... for now.
What I found interesting about the book: The introspection of the story takes you in and out of the humor, which also creates an ebb and flow of interest. Bea is fighting several demons as she is still trying to find herself. She wants to throw caution to the wind but walks the fine line of not becoming her mother. She wants to turn her back on the life that discarded her but needs to prove she isn’t a creative but an ad’s girl. Her constant dilemmas creates a ping pong effect for the reader, simply put she is caught between past and present and is opening the door to her own happiness while also standing the way.
What I am indifferent about but feel I should mention: The books starts in the middle so the first couple of chapters the reader may be full of questions as to how Bea got where she is and why. Amy does a great job giving the backstory through conversations but the missing information is disorientating at the beginning.
A slow burn, instant lust, forbidden love small town romance isn't just a hot and heavy tale between a big city girl and a small town boy, it dives deep into the psychological impact of nature versus nurture, acceptance, and the in your face reminder that love doesn't play by the rules.
Bea has had it with the rules and regulations of her life. Her grandmother and father set up boundaries so she wouldn’t end up like her mother. Her former boss commented on what she ate, what she wore, and what hoops she had to jump through while dangling her dream promotion (and corner office) in front of her like a carrot. Enough was enough! After one too many promotion snubs, Bea decided to do to life what it has been doing to her. Making a rash move to Nowhere, Colorado, Bea is determined to indulge in everything she had deprived herself, throwing caution to the wind and being as carefree as she wants to be. That sounds well and good until an anonymous citizen decides her disheveled appearance warrants a call to the police department. Austin responds to the call to find the much talked about out of towner enjoying the fruits of her easy-going attitude. Attempting to keep the peace, he is somehow drawn in by Bea’s antics and can’t seem to resist egging her on. Ten years her junior, Bea is a little too taken by the young officer and while she wants to let her hair down and have fun, she does have one set of rules she just not ready to bend... for now.
What I found interesting about the book: The introspection of the story takes you in and out of the humor, which also creates an ebb and flow of interest. Bea is fighting several demons as she is still trying to find herself. She wants to throw caution to the wind but walks the fine line of not becoming her mother. She wants to turn her back on the life that discarded her but needs to prove she isn’t a creative but an ad’s girl. Her constant dilemmas creates a ping pong effect for the reader, simply put she is caught between past and present and is opening the door to her own happiness while also standing the way.
What I am indifferent about but feel I should mention: The books starts in the middle so the first couple of chapters the reader may be full of questions as to how Bea got where she is and why. Amy does a great job giving the backstory through conversations but the missing information is disorientating at the beginning.
A slow burn, instant lust, forbidden love small town romance isn't just a hot and heavy tale between a big city girl and a small town boy, it dives deep into the psychological impact of nature versus nurture, acceptance, and the in your face reminder that love doesn't play by the rules.
funny
hopeful
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
I feel like it’s been forever since I read an Amy Andrews book and this was the perfect reminder of why she is a great writer. I loved visiting Credence, Colorado again through Austin and Beatrice.
Austin is a 25 year old Deputy in Credence who spent 5 years as a Denver cop but always dreamed of the small town cop life. He lives on his family’s ranch and loves his community. Beatrice is a 35 year old ex-ad-exec who just quit her job because she was passed over for a promotion yet again in favor of a male coworker. She dart helped her choose Credence and she is living the life of luxury to the max.
When they meet Beatrice is immediately stubborn to the idea of getting involved with a man so much younger than her. However Austin is immediately smitten with her and ready to help her find her joy again no matter what it takes. I personally found Austin to be adorable and perfect! He was so supportive and put Beatrice first in every way. I would love my own Austin!
Austin is a 25 year old Deputy in Credence who spent 5 years as a Denver cop but always dreamed of the small town cop life. He lives on his family’s ranch and loves his community. Beatrice is a 35 year old ex-ad-exec who just quit her job because she was passed over for a promotion yet again in favor of a male coworker. She dart helped her choose Credence and she is living the life of luxury to the max.
When they meet Beatrice is immediately stubborn to the idea of getting involved with a man so much younger than her. However Austin is immediately smitten with her and ready to help her find her joy again no matter what it takes. I personally found Austin to be adorable and perfect! He was so supportive and put Beatrice first in every way. I would love my own Austin!