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emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Breaking All the Rules is the first book I’ve read in a long time that was just pure fun and brought me joy.
Bea is such a ball of energy. I love how spontaneous she is as she has finally said enough and left the corporate marketing world!
Enter Officer Austin. Instead of irritated by Bea, he seems… amused.
There are so many adventures and laughable moments. This book brought joy to my heart and I just genuinely enjoyed the adventure and antics.
Thanks to the lovely people at @entangled_publishing for a copy of this book! The review expresses my own personal opinion.
Bea is such a ball of energy. I love how spontaneous she is as she has finally said enough and left the corporate marketing world!
Enter Officer Austin. Instead of irritated by Bea, he seems… amused.
There are so many adventures and laughable moments. This book brought joy to my heart and I just genuinely enjoyed the adventure and antics.
Thanks to the lovely people at @entangled_publishing for a copy of this book! The review expresses my own personal opinion.
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
4 ⭐
In this small town romance we meet Beatrice Asher (Bea for short) just after she got passed by for another promotion and decided to say ‘bye bye’ to LA advertising. Now she moved to Credence (Colorado) doing only what she wants and that is binge-watching 15 seasons of Supernatural in sweats, wrong day-of-the-week panties, messy hair and bunny slippers.
When she leaves her apartment after 2weeks on the hunt for pie, the locals call the cops .. introducing officer Austin Cooper (10 years her junior).
Bea wants to go against the conventional and break all the rules, which lands her for a short time in jail for jay-walking. But officer Cooper was rather taken by Bea, and soon he’s helping her thick off things on her ‘breaking the rules’ list. From horse riding to line dancing and skinny dipping, Austin knows exactly what Bea needs to boost her confidence.
The book is written in a third person perspective with a double POV.
While I am not a big fan of the third person narrative, I really didn’t mind because the writing flows well and you still get quite some inside on the characters.
I loved Bea and her FU attitude leading her to discover what’s important for her. Especially when her mantra was WWDD, a.k.a ‘What Would Dean Do’, since you can never go wrong with some Dean Winchester in my book
In this small town romance we meet Beatrice Asher (Bea for short) just after she got passed by for another promotion and decided to say ‘bye bye’ to LA advertising. Now she moved to Credence (Colorado) doing only what she wants and that is binge-watching 15 seasons of Supernatural in sweats, wrong day-of-the-week panties, messy hair and bunny slippers.
When she leaves her apartment after 2weeks on the hunt for pie, the locals call the cops .. introducing officer Austin Cooper (10 years her junior).
Bea wants to go against the conventional and break all the rules, which lands her for a short time in jail for jay-walking. But officer Cooper was rather taken by Bea, and soon he’s helping her thick off things on her ‘breaking the rules’ list. From horse riding to line dancing and skinny dipping, Austin knows exactly what Bea needs to boost her confidence.
The book is written in a third person perspective with a double POV.
While I am not a big fan of the third person narrative, I really didn’t mind because the writing flows well and you still get quite some inside on the characters.
I loved Bea and her FU attitude leading her to discover what’s important for her. Especially when her mantra was WWDD, a.k.a ‘What Would Dean Do’, since you can never go wrong with some Dean Winchester in my book
4.5 stars
I loved this book so much! So Bea moves to the small town of Credence to start over. And this time, she doesn't care about anything. She is going to break some rules and do what she wants to do. She meets Austin, a police officer, who decides to help her out. I loved both Bea and Austin. They were such a cute couple, had amazing chemistry, and the best banter. This was a really cute book that had me smiling throughout!
Read this if you like:
- Open Door Romance
- Cowboys
- Bunny Slippers
- Starting Over
- Police Officer MMC
- Age Gap
- Small Town Romance
- Cats
- Pies
Thank you Entangled publishing for sending me an ARC of this book.
I loved this book so much! So Bea moves to the small town of Credence to start over. And this time, she doesn't care about anything. She is going to break some rules and do what she wants to do. She meets Austin, a police officer, who decides to help her out. I loved both Bea and Austin. They were such a cute couple, had amazing chemistry, and the best banter. This was a really cute book that had me smiling throughout!
Read this if you like:
- Open Door Romance
- Cowboys
- Bunny Slippers
- Starting Over
- Police Officer MMC
- Age Gap
- Small Town Romance
- Cats
- Pies
Thank you Entangled publishing for sending me an ARC of this book.
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A fun, steamy story with great characters and good connection between the two main characters.
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I was lucky enough to get a copy of the audiobook from Netgalley, and it was one of my 23 books for 2023! I just really loved the cover, and the synopsis made it sound amazing and could not wait to read this one! Overall, I think it delivered what I was hoping, and I really liked it. Still, I hated that it took Bea forever to fix her issues regarding dating a young guy, and I hated that it was all solved by one short phone call. But Austin is one of my favorite characters of all time, and he was just amazing. I wish we had more time with them at the end because I feel like it wrapped up pretty fast.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexism, Grief, Death of parent
Breaking All the Rules is an entertaining small-town romance about a girl fed up with her life. After always being passed over for promotion, losing out to men less qualified than her. She decides enough is enough and quits her job in Los Angeles for a different life, one where she can live life her way and break any rule she wants.
Which leads her to the small-town of Credence, Colorado. A place she finds thanks to a dart in a map, and where she embraces her new life with gusto and where she meets Austin Cooper a local police officer. Who is immediately drawn to the delightful and older Bea, bunny slippers and all.
And it's fair to say Austin is eager to assist Bea in her journey of rule breaking and fun and the sparks soon fly!
And with a storyline that perfectly balances humour and heat Breaking All the Rules is an engaging fun, read. That features plenty of banter, likable characters and some emotion too.
I would happily recommend it to others.
**I was kindly provided with an ARC via Entangled Publishing in exchange for an honest review**
Which leads her to the small-town of Credence, Colorado. A place she finds thanks to a dart in a map, and where she embraces her new life with gusto and where she meets Austin Cooper a local police officer. Who is immediately drawn to the delightful and older Bea, bunny slippers and all.
And it's fair to say Austin is eager to assist Bea in her journey of rule breaking and fun and the sparks soon fly!
And with a storyline that perfectly balances humour and heat Breaking All the Rules is an engaging fun, read. That features plenty of banter, likable characters and some emotion too.
I would happily recommend it to others.
**I was kindly provided with an ARC via Entangled Publishing in exchange for an honest review**
