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The Rules Series: Hanleigh's London
- Narrated by: Stacy Hill
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
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Summary
Aurora Stone knows what it means to keep the rules. She’s lived with the expectations of the people around her. The only person whose expectations aren’t met? Hers.
In a moment of rebellion and self-loathing, Aurora decides to break the rules. Only the list seems endless and Aurora is a little overwhelmed by it.
But when she sees Landon sat at the bar watching her, she makes a split-second decision that might just change her life, one broken rule at a time.
For Landon Peters, everything changes the moment he meets Aurora. His world begins to unravel and his sense of control seems lost.
The list of broken rules quickly exceeds the number of rules they keep as they embark on this whirlwind adventure of control and chaos.
With control out of his reach, Landon might just push to enforce the rules between himself and Aurora in a desperate attempt to reclaim the control he craves. After all, he told Aurora he would help her break her rules but he hadn’t planned on it being at the expense of his own.
Will this British bad boy and London Socialite find their Happy Ever After together?
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- Siobhan D
- 20-04-22
loved
Loved the narration of Stacy Hill
Aurora Stone has always lived by her parents rules.That is until she decides to rebel , let lose drinking smoking and kissing strangers . Landon Peters lives by his own set of rules, After drinking a bit to much she sees Landon at the bar she goes for it
This book has enough steam and great characters and plot.
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- BellaReads
- 11-05-22
2.5 Stars
This is the boxset of the ‘Rules’ complete series. The first two books do end on a cliff-hanger, but as I had access to all 4 (as this is the complete series), I was able to continue with the story. So, the cliff-hanger endings didn’t bother me. Although, if you get the individual books, please be aware of this.
Now on to the actual books/story. The first book begins with the audience meeting Aurora aka. Rory. We find out that Rory a BIG rule follower. She was raised with very strict parents and had all these expectations/rules put on her about how to live her life ‘the proper way’. She’s a virgin and has come to terms with the fact that she feels stifled, and so wants to change this. She decides she wants to break those rules for once. So, she picks up Landon at a bar/night club. He takes her virginity and decides he will help her breaks some more of her rules.
Now the first issue I had with this series was the accent of the narrator/where the characters are from. The accent of the narrator is confusing. The narrator uses an American accent (I’m guessing they’re American) which left me confused. For a while I was confused as to if Rory was supposed to be English having lived in London for all or most of her life, or if she was American having recently moved there. Turns out Rory and Landan are both British. Although in the grand skim of things, it’s not that serious of an issue. It did confuse me enough to throw me off and take me out of the story many times. Especially because we hear an American accent using British slag at the oddest of times in the book and it was all a bit of a mess to be honest. I just feel like it would have matched the book better if an English narrator was chosen to narrate the series.
The next issue I had with this series is that for most of the story, the chapters were repetitive because the author would recap an entire chapter and its events but from the other person’s POV. Meaning, you’re basically re-reading an entire scene over again. This was unnecessary, and it felt almost as if the author did this in other to extend the length of the book in order to have 3+ books to sell.
Also, the book/writing sometimes contradicted itself. The first contradiction was that it would talk about how Rory is supposedly soo independent. But this doesn’t make sense, as the entire story is literally about Rory getting out from under her parents’ (specifically her mum) thumb, control, rules, and expectations. I mean her parents practically control how she interacts with people (aka she always must be very polite, certain things she does and says etc.). They also bought her house for her, and EVERYTHING she does essentially has to be approved by them (not literally, but their expectations are there, and Rory goes along with these expectations). Now tell me how is this independent?
The next contradiction was that at the beginning, she talks about how she’s from a well of family and her parents are rich (rich enough to have bought her a flat in London, which is far from cheap. And rich enough for her dad to own several cars and for their family home is massive and envied by others. Her parents are also members of the rich social class of London). Yet, she is surprised when Landan takes her out for dinner the first day after their night together, and she meets men in suits. She even claims this is a rare sight for her. Like I’m really confused.
These contradictions made me think that the author didn’t know what direction to take the characters. Like is Aurora a wealthy rich girl whose been sheltered all her life or is she “normal”? aka. a non-wealthy person who would be impressed by his wealth. Is she independent, or has she been controlled by the “rules” her parents set out for her all her life? The writing/story is confusing when determining this.
The next issue I has was that both main characters were unlikeable imo. The way Rory allowed her parents to control her didn’t make sense to me. I get growing up in a strict environment that stifles you when you’re a child. But Rory in the book is now in her mid-twenties, yet she STILL follows her parents’ rules. The fact that she complained about the rules but never thought to do anything about it (until she decided she would break those rules are the beginning of the book) was annoying to me. It wasn’t even the so-called rules themselves that annoyed me the most. It was how AWFUL her mum was. But instead of cutting that woman of her life (like any other reasonable person would), Rory would just take the treatment and then complain!! Also, her overall personality was just dry. Like she was just so boring; her personality trait was being “perfect” and a “rule follower”. Not only was she unrelatable, I just didn’t like her.
The H, Landan wasn’t any better. He was basically a stalker. If you like your Hs that way then great, but I don’t. Like in the book there’s this moment where (after taking her virginity) he literally made an appointment with HIS doctor to get HER on contraception without talking to her about it! As if it isn’t her own body. I know many readers like take charge, controlling men in their books. But for me, that was a step too far …. It was at this point that I almost DNF’d the book. But I decided to just continue to see if it gets any better.
As for the side characters, most were either not memorable, or were just unlikable (specifically, Rory’s mum was downright insufferable. I did not understand how Rory could forgive her after all she did!)
I ended up giving this series an overall 2.5 stars because I didn’t’ particularly enjoy the first 3 books about Rory and Landan. Ironically, I preferred the final book “A Secret Melody” which is a prequel novella about Landan’s sister. It wasn’t the best book ever written. But I liked it better than the first 3 books in this series/boxset. Individually, I would give “A Secret Melody” 3 stars, whilst I would give the other books in this series/boxset 2 stars. Even with those ratings, I don’t think these are the worst books ever written, I just found many issues with them. And I especially didn’t like the characters. This didn’t bode well in terms of my reading experience, as I am a very character driven reader.
With all that said, I do think the books/series/boxset does have some merits though. It loosely reminds me of Fifty Shades of Grey w/o the BDSM. If you liked that book, you may enjoy this one too.
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