Book Review - Breaking All The Rules by Rachael Richey

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Title: Breaking All The Rules

Author: Rachael Richey

Format reviewed: Ebook

Source: Author supplied review copy

Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc

Publication Date: 5th May 2017

Rating: 4 Stars

Kate is getting married in a month. Richard, her fiancé, is a lawyer: rich, successful, and very good-looking. She’s definitely in love with him. No doubt about that. 

So when Sam, a good friend and her high school crush, returns after eight years of traveling, she doesn’t care. After all, he never actually asked her out, and then he went traveling without her, contrary to their plans. She only agrees to go to dinner with him in order to hear all his news, so why doesn’t she tell him she’s getting married? And is he still bothered by the tragedy eight years ago? 

Sometimes life just gets too complicated, and Kate finds she keeps having Very Bad Ideas, which lead to even more complications. Just three days before her wedding, she finds herself in a situation that demands the biggest decision of her life.

Kate is absolutely playing with fire, in under a month she is due to marry Richard, and then Sam comes back into her life after 8 years, and suddenly Kate's brain has turned to mush. 

Instead of being 100% convinced Richard is the man of her dreams she starts realising everything that has ever niggled her about him, and she even agrees to go to dinner with Sam, which is the start of a very slippery slope. 

The entire way through I really wasn't sure which way Kate's heart would go, but I will say that by the end I was almost crying at the anguish that Kate is in, as she has to decide whose heart she needs to break - Richards, her own or Sam's. 

Despite thinking that Kate is making some rather wrong decisions,  I kind of liked her, and really enjoyed seeing her dilemma (which is perhaps a bit mean of me). I loved her conversations with Jenny her best friend, and yet I also found myself really warming to Sam, although whether that is because Richard really didn't sound that great is another thing. 

I really enjoyed reading Breaking All The Rules, it is definitely funny in places, and was quite entertaining. There were a few hidden secrets which added a bit of flavour to a few of the characters, and I just found this to be a lovely way to escape my life for a few hours, while I was absorbed with Kate's problems instead. 

If you enjoy books where the main character seems deeply unhappy and some of it is entirely of her own making, and seeing them agonize over decisions which to a reader seem really obvious then you will absolutely adore Breaking All The Rules. 

Thank you to Rachael Richey for this copy which I have reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 

Guest Post - Rachael Richey's Thoughts About Cornwall - Cornish Week

I'm delighted to welcome Rachael Richey, author of the NightHawk to my blog and to my Cornish Week. She has written about her thoughts on Cornwall, where she lives.

My first experience of Cornwall was as a tomboy twelve year old, going there on holiday with my best friend and her family.  They owned a little cottage right down near Land’s End, and we spent a brilliant week climbing on rocks, jumping over waves and generally getting sandy and sunburnt.  It was great fun and I really fell in love with the place.  Over the years I went back there on holiday many times, and when I introduced it to my husband nearly twenty years ago, he fell in love with it too.

We finally moved to Cornwall at the end of 2000, when our second child was just six months old, and since then have discovered so many more exciting parts of the county.

In both Storm Rising and Rhythm of Deceit, the heroine Abi lives in Sennen which is the most wonderful long white sandy beach near Land’s End.  It’s probably still my favourite place in Cornwall and we’ve spent many happy hours playing there.

My three other favourite places in Cornwall are Polridmouth Cove, where Daphne du Maurier had a cottage, and which she used as the location for Rebecca’s boathouse; Boscastle, and St Ives. 

I can guarantee that anyone visiting Cornwall will fall in love with it.

Author Bio

Rachael Richey lives in Cornwall with her husband and children. She writes Women's Fiction, and Storm Rising is the first book in the NightHawk Series. She has been writing since she was a child, starting with stories about her teddy bears and dolls. 

She lived in the Hebrides for nearly fourteen years, having originally gone there to work for the summer season. She met and married her husband David whilst there, and had two children, before moving to Cornwall at the end of 2000. 

There are currently four titles in The NightHawk Series.  The first, Storm Rising was published in February, 2015, and the second, Rhythm of Deceit was published at the end of July, 2015.  

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Storm Rising - NightHawk Book 1

Frontman of the grunge rock band NightHawk, Gideon Hawk has had enough of the rock star life. He is jaded, disillusioned, and haunted by the memory of an unresolved heartbreak. On a whim, he leaves the band in New York and heads to England in search of answers.

After attending the funeral of her estranged mother, Abigail Thomson makes a shocking discovery in her parents’ attic. The still-raw memories that surface, along with even more startling discoveries, force Abi to face a devastating truth that leads to a series of life-changing events. She and Gideon must race against time to reclaim the life stolen from them a decade before.

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Rhythm of Deceit - NightHawk Book 2

Two years after finally being reunited, Abigail Thomson and Gideon Hawk are happily married and living in Cornwall with their children.

While Gideon is busy focusing his energies on his musical career, Abi makes an unexpected discovery of old diaries dating from 1950. As she and her daughter read through them, the reasons behind Abi’s mother’s destructive actions become much clearer, and they discover a shocking sixty-year-old deception.

Meanwhile, Simon Dean, the vengeful ex-drummer of Gideon’s band NightHawk, is about to make life very difficult for them all—again—and he is prepared to go to desperate lengths to achieve his goals.

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Thank you so much Rachael for your thoughts in Cornwall. Next time I'm in the area I will try to check out your favourite places.