Forgetting the Rules (The Dating Playbook 5) by Mariah Dietz-Review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 28,2021

Rumor has it…

It all started with a lie.
I met Ian Forrest, middle linebacker and Roman God reincarnated last winter.
Dark hair and steel eyes, granite stacks of muscles, and a secret smile that made me weak.

You see, once upon a time, I Rose Cartwright, believed in happily ever after’s.
But life had taught me too quickly that rules are necessary and that gilded cages won’t protect your heart.

Yet, our lives began to weave together—a seamless and beautiful tapestry of ‘non-date’ dates.

By the time summer arrived, so had my nerves. He was leaving for two months, so I drew a hard line in the sand and labeled what we shared a friendship, though we’d both known it was more.

Now, it’s the beginning of our senior year, and once again, everything is bringing us together.
Only now, the secrets are bigger, the lies greater, and the stakes are even higher.

Will the pressure break us apart
Or will I be able to forget the Rules?

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REVIEW:FORGETTING THE RULES is the fifth instalment in Mariah Dietz’s contemporary, new adult THE DATING PLAYBOOK erotic, college romance series. This is Brighton College football linebacker Ian Forrest, and columnist / student Rose Cartwright’s story line. FORGETTING THE RULES can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous instalments is revealed where necessary.

WARNING: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Ian and Rose) FORGETTING THE RULES follows twenty-two year old Brighton College seniors, football linebacker Ian Forrest, and columnist Rose Cartwright. The new school year finds Rose Cartwright assigned to the sports desk at the Brighton College paper, placing her in the direct line of fire of Brighton linebacker Ian Forest, the man who left months earlier, without looking back but Rose’s latest assignment is to get up close and personal with the football players, an assignment that is about to spiral of control-someone is releasing personal and damaging information about the members of the team, and Rose will get pulled into a journalistic nightmare when she is targeted by the same people targeting the Brighton players. As she desperately tries to avoid the man that broke her heart (Ian Forrest), Rose’s rules for dating will be pushed to the side when Ian reveals his true feelings and emotions towards our story line heroine. What ensues is the rebuilding romance and relationship between Rose and Ian, and the potential fall-out as Rose’s life is exposed threatening any hopes of a future with the man with whom she is falling in love.

The relationship between Ian and Rose is one of second chances, of a sort, as Ian’s return to Brighton comes with mixed feelings for our story line heroine. Rose has a rule to never date any man more than once but Ian ghosted our heroine, just as she was falling for our story line hero. Refusing to give into her attraction, Rose desperately tries to avoid Ian but both are members of the same circle of friends. Struggling with the family dysfunctional nature of her family, and a betrayal from the past, Rose refuses to fall in love, fearing betrayal and heart break. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and seductive.

We are reintroduced to Arlo’s friends and fellow teammates: Lincoln Beckett and Raegan Lawson (Bending the Rules #1 / Breaking the Rules #2); Arlo and Olivia (Defining the Rules #3) ,Tyler and Chloe ( Exploring the Rules #4). team captain Paxton Lawson; Caleb , Luis Garcia, Poppy Anderson; Olivia’s father Coach Harris; newspaper editor Anthony Albright: school reporter Amita Patel, fellow students Chantay, Janet, Isla Zimmerman ; Rose’s sister Anna, their father; and Ian’s parents Grayson and Michelle.

FORGETTING THE RULES is a story of betrayal, secrets, lies, slut-shaming, and revenge; a story of family, friendships, relationships and love. The character driven premise is inviting, intriguing and inspiring; the characters are sassy and energetic; the romance is spicy, sensitive and compelling.

Click HERE for Sandy’s. review of book three DEFINING THE RULES

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Reviewed by Sandy

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Mariah Dietz is a USA Today Bestselling Author and self-proclaimed nerd. She lives with her husband and sons in North Carolina.

Mariah grew up in a tiny town outside of Portland, Oregon where she spent most of her time immersed in the pages of books that she both read and created.

She has a love for all things that include her family, good coffee, books, traveling, and dark chocolate. She’s also been known to laugh at her own jokes.