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Unwritten Rules

Rules of the Game, Book 4

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Unwritten Rules

By: Brigham Vaughn
Narrated by: James Edward Jones
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Summary

Rule number one: Don't fall in love with your family's sworn enemy.

Taylor Hollis brought home gold at the Olympics, then quit competitive skating at the height of his career.

Four years later, he lives a quiet life teaching figure skating classes and looking for the perfect guy with whom to settle down and build a family.

When the Evanston River Otters hire Taylor to take part in a feel-good media piece, he’ll have to defy his father and work with the son of the man he detests.

And his one weakness is a hot older guy who’s good with kids.

Rule number two: Choose your loyalties wisely.

Last season, Jamie Walsh left the Chicago Windstorm after a nasty divorce and falling out with his linemate.

Now he’s getting settled as a new forward for the Otters.

His biggest priority is his five-year-old daughter, Ava, but he can’t ignore how attractive he finds her skating teacher.

The only man he’s ever been interested in.

The more time they spend together, the harder it is for Jamie to ignore his feelings.

Too bad Taylor’s father has always blamed Jamie’s dad for ruining his hockey career.

Jamie and Taylor are perfect for one another but they’ll have to ignore both of their families’ unwritten rules if they let themselves fall in love with the enemy.

Trigger warning: frank discussion of eating disorders and past infidelity of secondary characters.

©2022 Brigham Vaughn (P)2023 Brigham Vaughn
Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Sports Feel-Good Heartfelt Hockey
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Story: Taylor and Jamie were such a great couple! I loved everything about their story and they are definitely among my Brigham's favorites! Taylor's personality and prickly edges made me love him from the get go and he was a perfect match for a slightly flailing Jamie and his newfound attraction. The chemistry was visible from the get go and the story kept me hooked from the start. Loved it!
Narration: Great performance. Elevated the story without overshadowing it in any way.

Hockey versus (?) figure skating

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I adored Taylor and Jamie and of course, Jamie's daughter Ava who was the most adorable 5-year-old.

Taylor was a great character to get to know, I really liked how he knew who he was and made no apologies for it, I was sad about how he'd been treated by past boyfriends and thought he was brave to take a chance on being with Jamie who wasn't ready to be out about his relationship with him. I liked how Jamie was completely happy to GOP with his feelings and not question his attraction to Taylor, he just accepted it and went with it, more than happy to try any new experiences that Taylor was willing to help him explore.

What starts off as a friends-with-benefits arrangement when neither Jamie nor Taylor can ignore the sexual tension between them soon becomes something neither of them expected. I really enjoyed seeing these two get together, I think they are definitely one of my favourite couples in this series.

The way the feud between their fathers tried to bleed into their relationship, especially at the start was annoying for me, I thought the way their fathers kept trying to get them to feel animosity towards each other because of their history in the ice was pretty selfish, especially for two grown men to want to keep that grudge going through their adult children. I'm glad Taylor and Jamie were bigger people than their parents and realised it wasn't their place to hold a grudge on their father's behalf.

I had the same issues with this narrator but I loved the story so much that it didn't annoy me as much as it did the first couple of books. I think this might be the best I've listened to so far of his narrations, so I'm either getting used to him or he's improving, or the story just overwrites the monotone.

I loved Taylor and Jamie

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I love Brigham Vaughan's ability to bring such emotional depth and connection to her characters.
It's what makes them so relatable and realistic.
Jaime and Taylor were perfect for each other.
Both having suffered before making them both leery of relationships.
I really enjoyed seeing them both work through their own issues, both separately and together.
Knowing that they had to work on themselves and at their relationship made it so much better, it was instant attraction between them but they absolutely worked hard for their well deserved HEA.
There was so much chemistry between these two it virtually leapt off the pages.
Ava was just too cute for words.
I can't wait for Lindy and O'Shea's story and I'm so very hopeful we'll get to see Charlie and Dustin's story.
The narrator did an amazing job bringing the characters to life.

Wonderful

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I really like this hockey series and Jamie and Taylor were such a cute couple. It starts up by being an enemies to lovers story. Their dads had a nasty falling out years ago which has affected their soon. Jamie and Taylor meets at the Olympics four years ago where Jamie sees Taylor skate and gets a crush on him but they end up having a public argument. scroll forward four years and Jamie still have a crush on him and when Taylor comes to work with the hockey team, it gives them a chance to get to know each other. They end up in a friends with benefits arrangement but it quickly becomes clear that they have feelings for each other but they both have issues to work through. I thought it was a great story and I enjoyed the narration.

great story

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Another great addition to the series. This one had the potential to be high angst but was actually the sweetest story.
Enemies to lovers although mainly through a family feud that could have impacted the story had the author decided to take things in a different direction.
High heat with numerous intimate scenes, that fit well with Jamie's bisexual awakening, and these nestled side by side with the family scenes with Ava (Jamie's daughter) which were achingly sweet.
Excellent performance has this going into my favourites for next time I need a feel good pick me up.

Enemies to lovers sports romance

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