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A review by aplace_inthesun
Breaking All the Rules by Amy Andrews
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
4.0
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.