Rule Breaker (Breeds, #20) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Apr 03, 2015 Netanella rated it did not like it

Shelves: paranormal-romance, author-lora-leigh, 2016-dangerous-heroes, 2016-rrrc-challenge-addicts-reading, 2016-march-reading-challenge

Whiney heroines, over-testosteroned alpha males who just can't accept mating heat, because you know it's just not cool, ridiculous new names like Hansel and Gretel and Kandy Sweet, and paragraphs of angst that just drag on and on.

After 29 books, I can't do it anymore. As much as I've loved this series (and there are some amazing books in this series), I really think it's time to pull this train into the station and let it retire with some dignity. Otherwise, we'll get Sylvester Stallone trying o ...more

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Feb 26, 2014 Sandra rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: shifters, pnr-uf, lora-leigh, audio

The 29th Breed book and Lora Leigh can still bring me to tears. Some of the stories of the main characters are just heartbreaking.

And then we have the overabundance of hawt sex. Well, you've got to expect that in a breed book.

Rule Breaker is the top Enforcer set on finding out who is giving information to the invisible Unknowns and shielding Gideon, Judd and the 2 girls that went missing many years ago. Jonas Wyatt believes that only Gideon can save his daughter Amber from a mysterious injection ...more

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Dec 30, 2013 namericanwordcat rated it liked it

Shelves: from-the-library, fated-mate, pnr, altered-dna, lion, paranormal-romance-series

I keep trying to read the new Breed books as they come out and I do but they don't really work for me anymore. The back cover of this one sounded great. The opening is gripping but then a great deal of the same old same old for the series. I wanted it just to be about the couple and with some of the the series plot arches. The love story just didn't compel me. If you haven't read the other 20 books in the series, I am sure it would be more engaging. The writing is solid as always.

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Apr 16, 2014 Zena Wynn rated it really liked it

I've been reading this series from the beginning, back when the author was published by EC. I know all the characters, their backgrounds, etc. If I did not have this level of familiarity, I'd have been lost. This book is as much about the hero/heroine's romance as it is about tying up dangling plot lines from previous books and laying the foundation for future stories. The story is very complex and at least for me, will require more than one reading to make sure I caught everything.

I like the f ...more

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Nov 22, 2013 Francesca the Fierce (Under the Covers Book Blog) rated it liked it

Shelves: books-read-2014, genre-paranormal-romance, hott

3.5 stars

Rule Breaker has been the reluctant breed. He swore he would never take a mate and run far away from Mating Heat as possible after seeing her mother dissected by scientists that were trying to understand that phenomena. He’s always extremely cautious when he’s around a female, and he’s been extra cautious around Gypsy. He’s known her since she was 15 and he rescued her from a Coyote Breed that almost raped and killed her, but who did take her brother’s life. He’s been secretly watch 3.5 stars

Rule Breaker has been the reluctant breed. He swore he would never take a mate and run far away from Mating Heat as possible after seeing her mother dissected by scientists that were trying to understand that phenomena. He’s always extremely cautious when he’s around a female, and he’s been extra cautious around Gypsy. He’s known her since she was 15 and he rescued her from a Coyote Breed that almost raped and killed her, but who did take her brother’s life. He’s been secretly watching over her since.

I’ve had a fascination with Jonas’s men for a while. Probably because to work for that ruthless man you must be pretty damn kick ass yourself. And just as I enjoyed LAWE’S JUSTICE, I enjoyed RULE BREAKER quite well. I still don’t think this series has recaptured the interest that I had in the earlier books, but the stories are sort of more complex now and I think we finally got some answers (even if it felt in a rushed way) in RULE BREAKER.

As for his mate, Gypsy…Well she was just ok for me. I liked the fact that she was fierce enough to try and spy and gather info and do the things she was secretly doing while covering it up as being a party girl. Not a wilting flower for sure, but yet again, a virgin heroine by Ms. Leigh.

But when it comes to the sexual chemistry between Gypsy and Rule, well…. Lora Leigh can write a sex scene like no other! If you are looking for heat, then prepare to be burned because Rule and Gypsy are hot!

There are so many other elements to this story that were of interest to me though, the side characters especially. I kept wanting glances of Dog and… Dane. Dane, my love, you broke my heart. From what I’ve seen he’s not supposed to get his own book, but he needs an HEA. Please! And then there was a brief moment of Cassie and a different side of her life we don’t usually get to see. My heart broke for her as well and the life she’s had to lead.

When I talk about side characters I can’t leave out Gideon! Who he is, what he’s done. I can’t wait to delve deeper into all that and keep discovering new things about him.

This book filled with a lot of unnecessary information though. Things were dragged on and excessive detail was given were it wasn’t really needed. It might’ve been cut by at least a third and maintained the story going.

Although I don’t think this is the strongest book in the series, it was a great stepping stone for what’s to come and to close out some older chapters that have been lingering around for a bit too long. I’m actually excited to see what comes next.

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Dec 30, 2013 Daffodil rated it liked it

Shelves: shifters

I love Lora Leigh's Breeds series, so it's hard to admit (even to myself) that this one is only getting 3 stars. Rule and Gypsy are wonderful characters, both with traumatic pasts that break your heart when you read about them. They're both exactly the right one for the other. Lora Leigh writes very explicit scenes, but when that's what I'm in the mood for, it's great.

So what lost this book a star? The plot. Not the plot involving the main characters, or even the ongoing Amber plot. Those were ...more

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