Breaking the Rules

by Capri Montgomery

They made the rules so he could break them. Marine Master Sergeant Christopher Albright climbed the ranks through dedicating the greater part of his adult life to fighting wars but now he’s the psychologist on base trying to help the men coming home bruised, broken and shattered. This is his life now and until he’s ordered to help the widow of a Marine to get through her heartache he never knew just how hard obeying the rules of a psychologist and a Marine could be. When Mora Norfolk walks into his office his thoughts go to the lust filled world first but hour after hour he sees her for the woman she is—a mother of two children and a woman fighting hard to keep her children moving forward while doing everything to avoid talking about her own pain. When trouble comes her way, and the winds of saving Mora’s heart turns into saving Mora’s life Christopher is willing and ready to break all the rules to protect her and love her.

163 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 20, 2018

Reviews

[HI5O · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting

This book was so interesting. A little short on romance but there was intrigue and mystery. Surprising unexpected twists thrown in.

[L_Maiden · Rating 5 out of 5]

I liked this book. I loved the details of Chris and his reasons about how loving Mora would be breaking the rules. I loved that Mora was a good mother and tried to make sure the children (kids) survived the death of their father emotionally. I understood how others could atke advantage of her. Above all of it I love that Chris fought to keep her safe and alive.

There were so many ways I thought the story would go one way and I was surprised at the ending. I didn't need to flip pages to skip anything because this book was interesting to me.

For the record, I did not sense any color favorites at all. Mora was described right in the first chapter. Being a softer brown in winter and seeing a richer shade of brown (red brown I think) in the summer sounds familiar to me as summer is when I have the depth of a tan too.

I liked that her father was white because it told me that her mother wasn't anti dating across the color line. Her mother did have issues though but I'll let you read the book and see how the story goes in your head while you read it.

[LaTanya Galloway · Rating 2 out of 5]

Drawn out

This story of love after losing a loved one could have been really good but had a bunch of words that were page filler instead of fully telling the story. There were some really sweet moments, like when the kids confronted Mora and told her that she deserved to be happy and were ok with a new man in her life or when Chris and Mora fell alseep in the living room and awoke with the children in there. But those were the highlights. There were several grammatical errors and the main character descriptions were off. The story was nearly over before Mora was revealed to be a "mixed" woman, (which seems to be trending once again) but was described as brown in the story. A fact that he mother wanted to kill her over, because she was "light" and pretty. Overall an okay read

[Brenda · Rating 5 out of 5]

very good

[Beatrice · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading the development of this relationship. I did feel certain scenes ( i.e. when they caught the post card writer and her mom) were rushed in this story.