{"id":2400,"date":"2013-07-29T06:23:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T13:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2017-02-18T03:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T08:31:54","slug":"review-beautiful-broken-rules-broken-1-by-kimberly-lauren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/?p=2400","title":{"rendered":"Review: Beautiful Broken Rules (Broken, #1) by Kimberly Lauren"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI\u2019ve accepted who I am. The girl who will never become serious about anyone, who will enjoy life, have fun with guys along the way and never get her heart broken.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Meet Emerson. College party girl, and unapologetic campus slut. Honestly, I found it a bit weird to begin with, but why the hell shouldn\u2019t there be a book about a girl who likes to sleep around? We always fall in love with man-whores, it\u2019s refreshing to see the old formula get switched up a bit!<\/p>\n

Em lives her life by three rules – never sleep with someone that a friend has feelings for, never sleep with someone who is in a known relationship, and never sleep with someone more than three times. And those rules work well for her. The guys she is with know this about her up front, she jokes and banters about her sex life, and her behaviour and her rules are well known to all. So it\u2019s all safe, nobody gets hurt, everybody is happy \u2013 in theory.<\/p>\n

And then Em\u2019s life is completely shaken up by the arrival of Jaxon Riley. Jaxon and his brother, Jace, are the childhood friends of Em\u2019s best friend, Cole, and they have just arrived in town to start their junior year at College, and the three boys move in next door to Em and her best friend \/ half sister, Quinn. And here we have the sensational set up for this fantastic group of characters.<\/p>\n

Em and Jaxon have an immediate attraction to each other, and the flirting and banter is fantastic. They become friends, they joke, they flirt, and it doesn\u2019t take long before things get physical between them. They abide by Em\u2019s rules, and everything is fine, until they start to have feelings for each other.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease stop running from me,\u201d he whispered.
\n\u201cPlease stop trying to catch me.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And he\u2019s not easily deterred.<\/p>\n

\u201cDamn it, Emerson, just stop!\u201d he yelled. \u201cStop pretending you don\u2019t care. Why won\u2019t you let me in? Why won\u2019t you let me care about you? Because for some maddening reason, I do!\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love how determined Jax is in trying to get Em to break her rules for him, and even though Em has her rules in place for a reason, she can\u2019t resist her feelings, and I was so proud of her for being brave and taking a chance to be with him. It\u2019s nothing she\u2019s ever experienced before, and she is absolutely terrified, but she is strong enough to let go of her rules and be with him, and the two of them together are absolutely beautiful.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to stop worrying that you\u2019ll lose me. There\u2019s nowhere else in this world that I want to be. I love <\/i>you, beautiful girl\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There is a lot of time spent seeing them happy together, which I loved, but also some big drama, and moments of devastating heartbreak as Em tries to work through her issues and the two of them try and be together. I did get annoyed with the lack of communication at times, but it is true to their characters, and there is a gorgeous HEA, and even an epilogue from Jax\u2019s POV to finish the story off beautifully.<\/p>\n

Shout out to the relationship dynamic between the five friends. It\u2019s absolutely sensational! These guys are up front and honest with each other, they\u2019re open, they joke, they laugh, and they\u2019re not afraid to stick it to each other when required. But they all deeply care about each other, and are there for each other 100%. They each play a big part of the story, including a great second storyline, and I adored the scenes where they were all together and bantering back and forth.<\/p>\n

\u201cEw, guys, stop it. Not on the couch.\u201d Quinn was right next to us, batting me off of Jaxon.
\n\u201cOh, like we haven\u2019t gotten plenty of fluids on this couch already, sweetheart,\u201d Cole laughed from behind her.
\n\u201cAll of you are disgusting, shut up, push play, and keep your fluids to yourselves,\u201d Jace complained.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I had heard before I started reading that this book reminded people of Beautiful Disaster (it\u2019s actually what made me pick it up in the first place). And I can see how people would make that connection. The characters are very different, but the college setting, the whole basis of their relationship (flirty friendship and becoming best friends before coming together), and some of the plot details are very<\/u> similar. But as an overarching story, it stands very separate, and I really enjoyed it.<\/p>\n

The drama is a bit extreme at times, but the character development is fantastic, and I loved Emerson\u2019s story. Her relationship with Jaxon is gorgeous, and I got completely swept up in the emotion of it all.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne day you are going to discover how beautiful and strong you are.
\nI hope that I\u2019m standing right next to you holding your hand when you do.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

4 stars.<\/p>\n

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