Reviewed by Becca
SERIES: Breaking the Rules #2
AUTHOR: Jacki James
PUBLISHER: self-published
LENGTH: 237 pages
RELEASE DATE: June 15, 2018
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Nathan Davenport’s past has taught him an important lesson that lead to his main dating rule: never date anyone you work with. He hasn’t had any problems keeping that rule. He’s the kind of guy men just want to play with for a night, but no one wants to keep forever. At least no one ever has until Alex.
Alex Doyle knows one thing. Even though he’s never been in a relationship with a man before, he wants Nathan…and not just for a night. He thought getting Nathan to violate his rule about not dating co-workers would be his biggest problem. However, it’s actually the fact Nathan doesn’t believe he’s worthy of a forever-relationship that’s his greatest challenge. And Alex won’t settle for anything less than everything with Nathan.
Just as Nathan starts to think he might have finally found someone who wants him for more than sex, his past comes back to haunt him. Will they manage to find a way to make things work? Or will breaking his rules cost Nathan everything… again
REVIEW:
Talk about not judging a book by its cover. You know, everyone has a mask. Most of us have several. It takes someone truly special to be able to get down to the real us. Whether friend of significant other. To be able to let our hair down and be who really are. It’s an amazing feeling. And that’s what I loved about this book. To find that specialness that gives us that freedom.
Nathan will tell you himself that he’s no innocent. He been around a bit. He’s not a total hooker/slut kind of person but he’s no virgin either. He always plays up his looks. He knows he looks good and that people want to screw him all the time. If Nathan were truly honest with himself, he would know he wants more. But he refuses to even think about it. You know the saying, “Fool me once, shame on you…” Well, he got fooled. Badly. Which brings in his rule of no dating inside the workplace. But damn, that super hot bear security guard person is driving him insane. And bears aren’t even his type! But something about this one. But he hasn’t seen the bear in a while so he figures sayonara. When he’s asked to look in on a patient, he gets the shock of his life. There’s his bear! And the look he is giving Nathan doesn’t look like he’s all to straight. But no work romance. Little does he know, Alex is bi and he’s taken with Nathan the minute he lays eyes on him. But Alex has never been in a relationship with a man before, never really had full on sex either. So will he be able to give Nathan what he needs, when Nathan is all he wants?
So everyone has masks….. When I read about Nathan in book 1, something told me there was more than meets the eye with him. Yeah, he plays off the flirty, slutty friend, and that’s fine, but there’s more underneath all that flirt and sass. And Alex pegged him right off the bat. The more Nathan put on a show to run him off, the more Alex dug in and I LOVED that. We all need that someone in our lives, even if it’s a friend, to call bullshit on us and make us be real. But learning more about Nathan’s past would make you understand why. I wish sometimes we could crawl in books. I would love to whip his ex’s ass. (Yay Linc!) What I loved about Alex, too, though, is he knew people would have to adjust to him dating a guy. For all everyone knew, he was straight. And he didn’t want to hide in a closet. He was scared, yes, of what his family would think. No one wants rejected, right? But he stood up anyway, because he knew he had found someone in Nathan and that right there cinched it for me. I loved Alex no matter what. He’s a special guy who had found an equally special man in Nathan. Not that there weren’t problems. Life loves to give us shit. And everyone has to learn to deal or move on. It’s never easy, but we have to realize what’s truly important in our lives and go for it.
I loved this book. I love this series. And I can’t wait to see what happens next. I’ve got my eye on the next two couples (hint hint! Lol). I think you guys will really enjoy it! Happy reading!
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