This a a great college sports romance read.
Easy to read
Fake dating
One bed
Ex bad boy
Troubled past
Spicy 🌶️

The writing is easy to follow and the story line is interesting. The characters were loveable.
This is book 4 in a series. For most enjoyable reading experience reading the first three is recommended however it can be read on its own.

All in all it was an enjoyable read.

Thank you for my early copy of Against the Rules. It was a sexy and hot story; I giggled at the spicy scene. Thank you again

Thank you to the author for providing an ARC in exchange for an honest review! Perfect for sports romance lovers, this book is a sweet and spicy coming of age college romance. While this is part of a series, it can be read as a standalone.

Loved:
- The found family aspects of the story
- Vaginismus represented in a way that doesn’t result in lack of any/all sexual drive
- For that matter, spice that went beyond just sex was fantastic to read!
- Bad boy dealing with his past
- Mixed/divorced family representation

Meh:
- The initial premise of conflict because King didn’t tell Willow about playing sports bothered me. I get that it set up the rest of the book, but it made no sense
- (SLIGHT SPOILER) The affair parent storyline was confusing for me. Even if her dad was the one to ask for a divorce, I still got the impression that her mom had been with her stepdad for years before that happened
- Just a lot of manufactured conflict which kind of pulled me out of the story

Disliked:
- (SLIGHT SPOILER) Lawson completely flipping from being an advocate for King to his enemy when he found out about King and Willow dating. It just felt like such a dramatic shift. I could understand anger, but not the calling him out on his past after being so supportive for years

DNF @ 30%. I really wanted to like this book but I struggled. I found the writing style immature for the genre and couldn’t push past some of the language used that made me cringe. I can understand why some would enjoy this book but it wasn’t for me

Unfortunately this one just was not for me. This reads as more of a YA book and those are really hit or miss for me, I guess because I’m above the age bracket. I found a lot of the writing almost cringe. (The word blowjobology is used on the second page). And the fact that he says his name is K and she decides to call him Tattoos pretty much after every other word. I just couldn’t get into it. I found myself wanting to skip through it to get to the end.