Lilibet Bombshell's Reviews > Rules We Break

And so we’ve come to the end of another one of Dana Isaly’s remarkable series that she’s worked so hard to write and publish for her most dedicated fans over the last year and a half. In the last month or so we saw the last entry in her series about Nick and Holly, and now we are seeing the end of the One Night series, which I have enjoyed so much from beginning to end.

This last entry features the workaholic member of the One Night series, Greg, and his strict boss, Ivy. The book opens at the same time the events of Desires We Seek are happening, and Greg isn’t happy to have been forced to leave celebrating in Tokyo with his friends all because his boss snapped her fingers and summoned him to work late. His mood swiftly changes when it turns out Ivy isn’t summoning him to work after hours, unless “working after hours” is code for “let’s do naughty and dirty things in my office and then see where this goes”.

Rules We Break picks up a year later, eight months after Ivy and Greg broke off their secret relationship due to Greg’s constant anxiety they would be caught and lose their jobs. The pair are in Nashville for a work conference, but it’s Ivy’s birthday and they have a night free to go celebrate by catching up, having some drinks, and seeing what Nashville has to offer in terms of nightlife.

From there, you can likely guess where things go. I mean, we aren’t reading this book to play canasta and drink lemonade. Some moonshine is consumed. Some terrible line dancing is done. Some slow dancing in a dive bar is done. Most importantly, a lot of talking is done, notably about how Ivy has decided to retire at the age of 45 because she feels she’s given too much of her life to her job and she wants to actually live the life she’s worked so hard to have. To her, that means she can finally have Greg like she wanted to a year ago, if he’s willing to give it a try.

If you’re a fan of the One Night series I don’t need to tell you that the spice is as excellent as always, with a nice spoonful of domme/sub dynamic, praise kink, and a tantalizing bit of slight sadism that made me the happy kind of squirmy since it’s a favorite trick of my own. What I loved more than the spice (because the spice was expected) was the playful dynamic between Ivy and Greg. They make each other laugh, they are physically affectionate in that warm and casual way I enjoy myself, and neither one of them is weighed down by angst or emotional scars. They’re just two adults ready to enjoy life and each other. That was just one of the best things about the whole book, since sometimes that’s a hard thing to find in erotica novellas involving kink. In my opinion, if a partner isn’t willing to laugh in bed with me, then why are we even there?

I’m not sad to see this series end, because it’s only right it ends here. Everything has to end sometime, and it’s good to go out on the most natural note. Thank goodness it’s a pretty high one.

I was provided a copy of this title by the author. All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Thank you.

File Under: Age-Gap Romance/Book Series/Contemporary Romance/Erotica/Kink Friendly/Novella/Romance Series/Spice Level 3