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  • Rule Breaker

  • By: Lily Morton
  • Narrated by: Joel Leslie
  • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (47 ratings)

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Rule Breaker

By: Lily Morton
Narrated by: Joel Leslie
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Publisher's Summary

Is it really wrong to want to murder your boss?

Dylan has worked for Gabe for two years. Two long years of sarcastic comments. Two long years of insults, and having to redo the coffee pot four times in the mornings to meet his exacting standards.

Not surprisingly he has devoted a lot of time to increasingly inventive ways to murder Gabe. From stabbing him with a cake fork, to garrotting him with his expensive tie, Dylan has thought of everything.

However, a chance encounter opens his eyes to the attraction that has always lain between them, concealed by the layers of antipathy. There are only two problems - Gabe is still a bastard, and he makes wedding planners look like hardened pessimists.

But what happens when Dylan starts to see the real Gabe? What happens when he starts to fall in love with the warm, wary man that he sees glimpses of as the days pass?

Because Gabe is still the same commitment shy, cold man that he’s always been, or is he? Has Dylan had the same effect on Gabe, and has his solid gold rule of no commitment finally been broken? With his heart taken Dylan desperately needs to know, but will he get hurt trying to find the answers?

From the author of The Summer of Us comes another scorchingly hot romantic comedy, showing what happens between two men when rules get broken.

©2017 Lily Morton (P)2019 Lily Morton

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Very romantic

A very romantic story, which I very much enjoyed. Lots of steamy sex and plenty of dramatic tension between the two main characters.

Joel Leslie's narration is good let down occasionally by lapses into his native American accent.

The author sometimes gives in to clichés

Overall A good listen

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Charming

Really enjoyed this book and narration. Characters are so lovable. Sexy and funny. Think I'll listen to it again.

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Witty lines make this book!

Rule Breaker is book one in the Mixed Messages series. An office MM romance.

This is my first read by Lily Morton so I really didn't know what to expect. But it was witty, funny and at times heartwarming.

Gabe is an arrogant closed off boss and Dylan is his sassy personal assistant. The banter between these two is possibly my favourite thing about the entire book. Lily set the bar here with sarcasm and snark. I'm looking forward to her next books in the series and I hope it continues.

Gabe and Dylan have a very different story to what I've come to see in a lot of office romance types. It wasn't that nauseating insta love, thank god. But after working together for two years the self retrain snaps. Even then it isn't all rainbows and unicorns, there is angst and tension which I am totally here for.

But in the end I really enjoyed how they got to their HEA. I also absolutely love the multiple POV for the epilogue. That was probably my only with the book, it would have bene great to have more of Gabe's narrative. I'm keen to see more of Henry and Jude who I assume are the next books, having not looked too far into the series.

As an audiobook addict I devoured this one quite quickly and haven't listened to many books narrated by Joel Leslie, but I'd highly recommend this he does reasonable accents (nothing worse than a poorly down accent) and he did the character voice changes well.

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Throw away pulp rubbish

I ended up nearly getting to the end of this completely banal, transparent, soft porn fodder because at some stages I was fascinated to know just how facile the storyteller would get. Its not worth finding out. The first person narrator is depicted as a gorgeous rapier tongued pretty boy. However the actual voice is one of a warbling maiden aunt quality that matches the flaccid drama. Please don't waste your time, you will never unhear this work of arse.

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great narration but definitely needed content warning

very few things will make me DNF faster than romanticism of DV.

there is NEVER EVER an excuse for emotional and psychological abuse. NEVER. past trauma doesn't give someone a free pass to use their partners as emotional p*nching bags.

the narration was top notch as usual from this incredibly skilled voice actor.

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Can sleeping with the boss ever end well?

Dylan is breaking the rules. He is the only person in the office who doesn’t fear his boss, Gabe, giving just as many snarky comments as he gets. Despite the fact that I hate the unprofessionalism of office romance tropes, the exchanges are entertaining and each chapter opens with a fun email salvo. I liked that Dylan was well-grounded and unswayed by Gabe’s wealth or power. I thought the inevitable relationship breakdown was well-written. But. I felt the second half of the book was at first overly melodramatic and then overly sentimental - it was hard to recognise the original smart and snarky characters in the latter chapters. Gabe, the once wild stallion, felt tame and gelded by the end - I would have liked him to have retained more snarkiness. I guess the problem with redeeming a flawed character is knowing when to stop. 🎧 Being set in the UK, American narrator Joel Leslie effectively used a range of British accents for the characters, but I would have preferred a British narrator for total authenticity.

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