Reviewed by Lesley
TITLE: No Rules
SERIES: No Regrets Book 2
AUTHOR: Nora Phoenix
PUBLISHER: Self Published
LENGTH: 296 Pages
RELEASE DATE: October 20, 2023
BLURB:
Alex is proof that you can be tough as nails…and still be submissive.
Alex loves serving others—when he’s not doing his job as a security specialist. His team is investigating a puzzling case involving a spunky grandma and a dead horse at the racetracks.
Ryan, a grumpy older PI, is all too happy to make use of Alex’s talents, and he seems to delight in pushing Alex’s buttons. Alex is determined not to let Ryan run all over him…even when deep down, he loves it when Ryan gets all dominant and aggressive.
That’s just physical attraction. Chemistry. It doesn’t mean anything.
Ryan has made it clear he wants no entanglements, and Alex can’t ever see himself serving only one man.
Until he can.
Until he wants no one else but Ryan.
Until he’s stupid enough to fall for the one guy who’ll never be able to commit.
No Rules is an MM romance featuring a sunshiny, happy-to-please guy and a grumpy cynic who’s determined to keep his emotional distance. It’s the second book in the high heat No Regrets series and has a suspense plot without cliffhangers.
REVIEW:
This book crosses over with No Surrender timewise and I would recommend reading that first to get the context of the start this story. However, I think you will still manage to catch up quite quickly if you haven’t read it.
Alex is the youngest member of Wander’s security team and an inexperienced sub. He is also the best on the mat where it comes to hand-to-hand fighting and a pretty reasonable marksman.
Ryan is an experienced Dom, who doesn’t think he is capable of being a Dom anymore. He is a former cop and now a PI. He has joined the security team permanently and for some reason feels compelled to annoy Alex.
Ryan is training Alex on investigation skills and together they are working on a case trying to solve the murder of a racehorse and the framing of his owner. But it’s one thing to want to train Alex as a private investigator but Ryan doesn’t want to train Alex on being a sub, but can he let anybody else train his baby boy?
In this book we get to learn more about Wander, Burke, Jesse, David and the rest of Wander’s security team. We also get small cameos from Josh, Connor & co from the No Shame series where we were first introduced to Wander and his team.
What I really liked about this book is the story. No Rules is not just a BDSM book, nor just an age gap book or even just a love story. It is all of these but also a mystery book with Alex and Ryan.
The story is so well written and of a decent length that none of the elements listed above are short changed. We have real character development, real relationship development and real plot lines not just a BDSM love story.
Don’t worry though, if you like heat in your story there is plenty of that in the book, but it is just part of the story not the whole thing.
I am really looking forward to the next book in the series.
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