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A review by pagesplotsandpints
The Rule Book by Sarah Adams
2.0
Read Completed 4/6/24 | 2 stars
Boy, am I glad that's over.
I usually like Sarah Adams and I was hoping the one exception would be THE CHEAT SHEET because it's an older book of hers and I've really liked her most recent works the best (WHEN IN ROME, PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT), but this one was a huge miss for me. I didn't like it for most of the same reasons that I didn't like THE CHEAT SHEET, and that was because I really didn't like the characters. At all.
Nora was annoying and immature, and honestly so was Derek. They broke up in college for no good reason and it was an annoying miscommunication / non-communication trope, which I hate. When they were paired up for Nora's job as a sports agent and Derek becomes her client, he makes her life miserable, which was selfish and immature. Nora was this big bad sports agent who was doing good work for women in sports, which I liked, but she was also incredibly unprofessional in so many other ways. I just really didn't like either of them and like THE CHEAT SHEET, both of the characters felt incredibly forced and like wild caricatures.
Also forced was ALL THE TROPES. Okay, seriously, chill out. Can we focus on like one or two. It's second chance, enemies to lovers, marriage of convenience, fake dating + rules list, only one bed, miscommunication, and more. Whew. I was kind of annoyed that it jumped around in so many ways and I felt like the author was just trying to force EVERYTHING into the book. The pacing was off, the dialogue was soooo cheesy. None of it worked for me.
Why didn't I DNF, you ask? Well 1) I've liked her other books and the plot kept jumping from one concept to the next that I kept waiting for it to get good. 2) It has really good ratings and I mistakenly thought it would shape up because of that and 3) I made it past my point of no return to DNF, which is no more than 40%, because at that point, I can just finish it and have it count towards my reading goal.
It wasn't an awful book but this was 100% not for me. I also don't think I like sports romances? Baseball only, apparently, because I could eat that up, so only the sports I watch, I guess. I don't like football and I don't watch football but it's not like I'm watching a football game in this book, so I didn't think I would care. I just didn't like anything about the book, really. Take this along with the other glowing reviews!
Boy, am I glad that's over.
I usually like Sarah Adams and I was hoping the one exception would be THE CHEAT SHEET because it's an older book of hers and I've really liked her most recent works the best (WHEN IN ROME, PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT), but this one was a huge miss for me. I didn't like it for most of the same reasons that I didn't like THE CHEAT SHEET, and that was because I really didn't like the characters. At all.
Nora was annoying and immature, and honestly so was Derek. They broke up in college for no good reason and it was an annoying miscommunication / non-communication trope, which I hate. When they were paired up for Nora's job as a sports agent and Derek becomes her client, he makes her life miserable, which was selfish and immature. Nora was this big bad sports agent who was doing good work for women in sports, which I liked, but she was also incredibly unprofessional in so many other ways. I just really didn't like either of them and like THE CHEAT SHEET, both of the characters felt incredibly forced and like wild caricatures.
Also forced was ALL THE TROPES. Okay, seriously, chill out. Can we focus on like one or two. It's second chance, enemies to lovers, marriage of convenience, fake dating + rules list, only one bed, miscommunication, and more. Whew. I was kind of annoyed that it jumped around in so many ways and I felt like the author was just trying to force EVERYTHING into the book. The pacing was off, the dialogue was soooo cheesy. None of it worked for me.
Why didn't I DNF, you ask? Well 1) I've liked her other books and the plot kept jumping from one concept to the next that I kept waiting for it to get good. 2) It has really good ratings and I mistakenly thought it would shape up because of that and 3) I made it past my point of no return to DNF, which is no more than 40%, because at that point, I can just finish it and have it count towards my reading goal.
It wasn't an awful book but this was 100% not for me. I also don't think I like sports romances? Baseball only, apparently, because I could eat that up, so only the sports I watch, I guess. I don't like football and I don't watch football but it's not like I'm watching a football game in this book, so I didn't think I would care. I just didn't like anything about the book, really. Take this along with the other glowing reviews!