🩷The Rules of Dating a Younger Man (The Laws of Opposites Attract 4) by Vi Keeland/Penelope Ward-review tour🩷

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 17, 2024

I was the last of my group of friends to find “the one.”
The guys would always tease me that I needed to hurry up and settle down.
But I was in no rush.
Until I met someone worth rushing for.

Alex was one of the weekend volunteers at Ryan’s House—a charity I founded to build housing near hospitals.
Little did I know she was the same person I’d been arguing with over email before the project started. At the time, I’d thought Alex was a dude.
In reality? She was a smoking hot blonde who captivated me from the moment we met in person.
Our chemistry was off the charts, and I fell hard pretty fast.
Unfortunately, Alex insisted I was too young for her. I hated that she felt that way. Because age was just a number.
Not only that, her words didn’t match the way she looked at me—like she was very interested.

I lived for the weekends we’d spend out of town volunteering. Alex and I side-by-side hammering during the day, while sharing intimate dinners together at the hotel at night.
Eventually, the walls she’d put up to protect her heart began to crumble.
Until fate threw us a doozy that I wasn’t sure we could come back from.
If I’d thought our age gap was the biggest hurdle, I didn’t know anything yet.
Rule number one for dating an older woman who insists you could never be together?
Don’t fall in love.

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REVIEW: THE RULES OF DATING A YOUNGER MAN is the fourth instalment in the contemporary, adult THE RULES OF OPPOSITES ATTRACT erotic romance series co-authored by Vi Keeland and Penelope Ward. This is thirty one year old businessman/ contractor / landlord Brayden Foster and spa owner Alexandria ‘ Alex’ Jones’ story line. THE RULES OF DATING A YOUNGER MAN can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary.

SOME BACKGROUND : Approximately ten years earlier, Brayden Foster, Owen Dawson,Colby Lennon and Holden Catalano lost their best friend Ryan to leukemia, and in the wake of his death, Ryan left the foursome a building, where they will work, live and play, in memory of the friend whom they lost.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Brayden and Alex) THE RULES OF DATING A YOUNGER MAN follows the building but struggling relationship between our story line couple. Brayden Foster is the managing director of a renovation project known as Ryan’s House in honor of his best friend Ryan, but one of the ‘volunteers ‘ is the bane of Brayden’s existence, always contradicting Brayden’s ideas and suggestions for the home. Enter Alexandria ‘Alex’ Jones, the woman with whom Brayden will fall in love. Alex Jones is a business owner, who lost her first husband to cancer, and in his memory, has volunteered to help build Ryan’s House but from the outset her attraction to Brayden is tempered by the apparent age-gap in their relationship. Brayden wants something more from our story line heroine but Alex is struggling with the age difference, and tries desperately to keep her distance. Weeks pass, the attraction increases until one fateful weekend where their lives will implode forcing Alex out of Brayden’s life. What ensues is the slow building relationship between Alex and Brayden, and the fall-out when the past resurfaces, pulling our couple apart.

The world building follows the back and forth relationship between our story line couple. The closer Alex and Brayden feel, the further Alex wants to pull apart. Alex is worried about the age difference, what people will think, including the step-daughter she has raised as her own. As the renovations continue, life pulls the couple in opposite directions, until the past pushes our couple apart.

The relationship between Alex and Brayden is one of immediate attraction but an attraction tempered by our story line heroine. The palpable sexual attraction is obvious to everyone including our story line couple but Alex’s back and forth, up and down, is threatening any possible future. The $ex scenes are limited but intimate and passionate without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text.

The secondary and supporting characters include Brayden’s friends Colby, Owen and Holden, their significant others, as well as several volunteers at Ryan’s House, cancer patients and Alex’s step-daughter Caitlyn.

THE RULES OF DATING A YOUNGER MAN is a story of secrets and lies, life and death, family and friendships, acceptance and love. The premise is detailed, captivating and thought provoking; the romance is spicy; the characters are animated sassy and spirited. On the flip side, we never know the true age of our heroine, although it is alluded to less than ten years.

Reading Order and Previous Reviews
The Rules of Dating
The Rules of Dating My Best Friend
The Rules of Dating My One-Night Stand

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Reviewed by Sandy

Penelope Ward is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author. She grew up in Boston with five older brothers and spent most of her twenties as a television news anchor, before switching to a more family-friendly career. She is the proud mother of a beautiful 11-year-old girl with autism and a 9-year-old boy. Penelope and her family reside in Rhode Island.

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Vi Keeland is a native New Yorker with three children that occupy most of her free time, which she complains about often, but wouldn’t change for the world. She is an attorney and a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, & USA Today Best Selling author. Over the last three years, ten of her titles have appeared on the USA Today Bestseller lists and three on the New York Times Bestseller lists.

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