Recent Release Review: Rules, Schmules by Becca Seymour

04 July of 2022 by ButtonsMom2003

Rules, Schmules By Becca Seymour

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM,

Tropes: New Adult, Coming Out, Sports, Basketball

Released: June 29, 2022

Publisher: Rainbow Tree Publishing

Series: Fast Break, Book 1

Length: 82,000 words / 296 pages

Cover Design: BookSmith Designs

Synopsis

The first Zone Defense series spin-off with a rule-following basketball player and an unimpressed twink who thinks rules are made to be obliterated.

It’s not my milkshake that brings Kieran Kendall to my yard. Okay, maybe it’s a little bit my milkshake. But I also like to think it’s my dazzling personality and my magical… uhm… you get the idea.

Since meeting Kieran, my first, second, and admittedly third impressions of him have changed radically. Not surprising, since he was a prize D during at least two of those encounters. What I should be doing is running from the college basketball star who checks so many of my dream-guy boxes. But do you know how hard it is to find a hot guy who’s as smart as he is talented?

And I’m not just talking about his talent on the basketball court. Heck no.

It’s easy to get distracted by him, because of him, yet as far as he’s concerned, I’m the one who’s a distraction and throwing his carefully constructed plans out of whack.

I should be sorry. I should also be better at guarding my heart.

But Kieran Kendall is under my skin, and getting him to break his rules is far too much fun.

Rules, Schmules! is an 82k stand-alone MM romance featuring characters first introduced in No Take Backs. It contains ridiculous antics by college basketball players, a basketball mascot who likes to twerk, and lots of sweet and sexy times.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Good start to a new series!

Rules, Schmules is a romance with a basketball theme; I don’t think I’ve read many, if any, basketball books before so this one was interesting just for that alone. Add to that it was a good story with great writing.

There’s just the right amount of wit and drama. It’s a coming out, sports romance – and I’ve read several of them – but it didn’t seem like a regurgitation of the same old thing. For one thing, Kieran’s teammates know that he is gay. Kieran’s dilemma about coming out to everyone is that he wants a career in professional basketball and he feels that he won’t be accepted as an out gay athlete. He’s also afraid of what it might mean for Dean to be in the public eye. I thought the characters were interesting and I really loved how supportive Kieran’s family is. His grandmother was especially likeable.

I enjoyed the cast of secondary characters as well and I’m looking forward to reading the next book in this series. The epilogue, set a few years into the future, was very nice. I love getting to see what characters are up to a little while after they get their HEA.

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O Factor: Scorcher

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About Author

Becca Seymour

Becca Seymour is the #1 gay romance best seller of the True-Blue series, having sold more than seventy thousand copies of book one in the series so far. Known for “steamy and endearing” and “emotionally profound love stories” (InD’tale Magazine) her books have been nominated for multiple RONE Awards.

Becca lives and breathes all things book related. Usually with at least three books being read and two WiPs being written at the same time, Becca’s life is merrily hectic. She tends to do nothing by halves so happily seeks the craziness and busyness life offers.

Living on her small property in Queensland with her human family as well as her animal family of cows, chooks, and dogs, Becca appreciates the beauty of the world around her and is a believer that love truly is love.

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