Review: Breaking the Rules
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 14, 2013
Breaking the Rules is a pure romance story. The romance is the driving factor and it completely overshadows everything else. Sure, it has great characters with interesting back stories, but it is first and foremost about the romance. Morgan and Drake fall in love at first sight basically. They both try and stay away from each other because they work together. Morgan is trying to prove herself at a new job and Drake has a deal with his dad. But they can't stay away from each other for long, and so starts their pretty epic romance...in secret.I liked how smart and savvy Morgan was when it came to her job. She put a career first, and even though she comes from a well off family and is a beautiful girl, she doesn't just want to rest on her family money and become a wife. She wants to be a business woman. I liked her go-getter attitude when it came to her job. She even could be a little sassy. When I saw her inner spitfire on her first day with Drake in the parking garage, I knew that I was going to like her. But then, along the way she fell in love with Drake and I felt like a little bit of that spunk and spirit that I loved in her died. She put up with a lot of kind of jerk moves from him. She kind of just rolled over. Eventually she got her spirit back, but I was annoyed with her a few times in the middle of the story.And Drake had his moments of annoyance too. On one hand, I really liked and respected how much he turned his life around. You could tell that this job was important to him and that he really wanted to put his past behind him, but he was all kinds of misleading to Morgan when he first met her. He was hot and he was cold, he was up and he was down. I had no idea how she put up with him. But once they got past that initial week of confusion, they seemed to be pretty hot and heavy. They were always with each other outside of work and their romance was intense. Adorable and cheesy. Very cheesy. It was insta-love and it was over the top mushy, but they both acknowledged that it was. They knew that they fell in love way too quickly and that they didn't really know all that much about each other, but what I liked about Breaking the Rules was that even know it was love at first sight, a good deal of the book was spent with them getting to know each other.I really liked how sweet and "true-love" like their romance seemed to be. Fans of cheesy and sappy romances will absolutely eat this book up. And I like cheesy. I really do, but some parts of this book were even too much for me. If Drake said that he wanted to go out of his way to pamper Morgan, I may have gagged. But even with the cheesiness aside, their romance was pretty beautiful. There is no way that anyone could look at them and not know that they were totally crazy about each other. Their story was cute, but I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. For something to happen, because everything seemed too perfect, just a little too good to be true. I wanted some conflict! And I finally got it at the end of the book. I actually loved the ending. Probably because I had been waiting for conflict for so long. And it set up the second book perfectly. Breaking the Rules will be a great read for fans that like their romance a little on the  lovey-dovey side.*Disclaimer- I got a copy of this book for free in exchange for my honest review. I was not compensated for my thoughts.