Reviewed by Becca

TITLE: Rules to Break

SERIES: Davey’s Rules #2

AUTHOR: Susan Hawke

PUBLISHER: self-published

LENGTH: 311 pages

RELEASE DATE: September 26, 2019

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Davey’s Rule #91: Daddy never loses faith in his boy.

Bryan Miller is satisfied with his uncomplicated life. He’s a discipline Daddy who’s not in the market for any kind of permanent relationship. And why should he be? Like the waves he surfs in the small beach town he calls home, there’s always another body available to warm his bed when he tires of the current flavor of the week.

Preston Wallace is a snotty rich brat with enough attitude to keep all the Daddies from giving him a chance. He gets it… people are jealous of him for being rich, hot, and fit. It would take a strong Daddy to take him in hand.

A casual conversation on the night of Preston’s twenty-fifth birthday ties these two stubborn men together in a bet right out of the musical My Fair Lady. Can Daddy Bryan turn the obnoxious brat into a dateable boy within a ninety-day timeframe?

Strap in for a roller-coaster of emotions as Bryan takes firm control of a brat who might just need to know someone cares enough to try.

This is the second book in this series about not-so-perfect Daddies, adorable “boys,” and one sassy brat with an insane list of rules. Grab your fan and tissues because this series comes with both a high heat advisory and all the squishy feels you’d want from a Susan Hawke book. Possible trigger for the death a background character

REVIEW:

Damn this book broke my heart! Holy moley. I know Preston came off as a prick most of the time and I get why people didn’t want to be around him at times, but if they just took the time to get under that exterior he put up, they’d see a whole different side to him. 

It really made me sad when the Daddies were all making bets about taming Preston in front of him, like he wasn’t there. It’s like they had no consideration for his feelings at all. I get they all thought he could be a prick but still. He still has emotions. And that’s obvious by how he reacts to one of the Daddies. Who to Preston doesn’t deserve that title. But when Bryan decides to take the bet and try to tame Preston, he got to see a side of Preston that really surprised him. Especially when the chips were down for others. He was sassy and bratty and could really through a hell of a tantrum, but Preston was caring, compassionate and so many other things, it actually made Bryan feel guilty for the way he judged him. And made him see Preston in a different light. For three months of the bet, things were up and down. It was bound to happen. You’re going to have disagreements and arguments and people are going to screw up. But when the chips were down, Bryan was the one who did the unthinkable. And now he has to see if Preston will even give him the time of day. And if I were Preston, I’d be upset too.

You know. I really adore Preston. Yes, he can be a bit of a dick but he really has a heart of gold. He just needed someone who could really see him. Someone who paid attention to him. Someone to make him feel like he was important and worth it. NO one else ever has. And that’s obvious with the way they all talk about him as if he’s not there. When Preston had lost two very close friends within weeks of each other, he needed someone even more. But people keep disappointing him. Over and over again. And they wonder why he’s bitchy. Even his own parents could care less. His only friends are his staff. And that hurts. I just wanted someone to see what Preston really was. And if Bryan had any kind of brain in his head, he would see what he has in his hands. Sometimes I think he does and then he lets thoughts rule his brain and he screws it up. It’s a tough one.

But thankfully, sometimes people finally pull their heads out of their asses and see things for what they really are. Including people who never gave him the time of day. They actually reached out to him. And it was a joy to see Preston finally have something he’d never had. I also love the way he never apologized for standing up for his principles. He might be punished, but he took his punishment like a man. But he kept his backbone. And I don’t care what anyone else said or did to him, I was proud of him.

And as a sidenote, I am not happy about Bronson………

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