Breaking the Rules
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Luckily, for Isabelle LaFayette, she fails at many things. Most recently, a dark and desperate suicide attempt was yet another failure to add to her long list of setbacks. Her botched attempt haunts her--along with many other regrets. Now, she's struggling to forgive herself for her selfish and harsh actions. Meeting Jack Riley changes everything... Suddenly, she feels more alive and more worthy than she's ever felt before. But when those old familiar feelings of worthlessness creep back in, Isabelle pushes the one man away who truly cares about her. Searching for inner strength and courage to confront her demons, Isabell must face the truth of her past head on. Can she piece together the broken shards of her life to build a new future for herself?
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I loved this book. The wit is dry, the action easy to follow, the confusion of the main character absolutely warranted (Mermaids? in Lake Michigan?!), and it's just wonderful. And it stars a bisexual teenage BOY. Male bisexuality could use more visibility, so this made me really happy. I picked this book for the M/M for Pride; I was really excited to find the main character is bisexual! It was a great surprise.
Bridger (an unusual name, but it fits him) is a senior in high school with a crush on his next door neighbor. He plans to go to school far away - Florida - where he can just BE himself instead of having to come out. But for that he needs money; so he answers an ad for an assistant doing....well he's not sure exactly what. When he finally demands answers, he learns the truth about the world of myth and magic, and things snowball from there.
He wrestles with keeping it secret from his friends - because really, who would believe he saw mermaids in Lake Michigan? At the same time, he's trying to wrap his head around his attraction to Leo, star football player, who just might like him back, and how to tell his mom he's bisexual.
I loved Bridger, and his best friend, Astrid, who will kick the butt of anyone who looks wrong at Bridger, and Leo was an absolute dreamboat. I also want to know more about Pavel and his companions! I really really hope the author writes more books in this world, because I want to read them!
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The story of a dickward god in the RTO supermage series by the same author
The MC is dick but you will get it and like it if you have read the other series by Author which starts with Supermage. He is a manipulative dickward god in that series and this one starts with he as a human how he became the said god. Or i hope that this theory is correct because names matched.
I enjoyed this book until I got to the end... of the book, not the story. It just completely stopped, very frustrating. Would make some sense at least if it were part of a series, but it doesn't seem to be (and even then, even books in series resolve things!)
