No Rules

No Regrets, Book 2

De: Nora Phoenix

Narrado por: Michael Dean

Alex is proof that you can be tough as nails…and still be submissive.

Alex loves serving others—when he’s not doing his job as a security specialist. His team is investigating a puzzling case involving a spunky grandma and a dead horse at the racetracks.

Ryan, a grumpy older PI, is all too happy to make use of Alex’s talents, and he seems to delight in pushing Alex’s buttons. Alex is determined not to let Ryan run all over him…even when deep down, he loves it when Ryan gets all dominant and aggressive.

That’s just physical attraction. Chemistry. It doesn’t mean anything.

Ryan has made it clear he wants no entanglements, and Alex can’t ever see himself serving only one man.

Until he can.
Until he wants no one else but Ryan.
Until he’s stupid enough to fall for the one guy who’ll never be able to commit.

No Rules is an MM romance featuring a sunshiny, happy-to-please guy and a grumpy cynic, who’s determined to keep his emotional distance. It’s the second book in the high heat No Regrets series and has a suspense plot without cliffhangers.

©2023 Nora Phoenix (P)2023 Nora Phoenix

Meh

I found myself bored through large parts of this one. That surprised me, a pretty big Nora Phoenix fan.
I loved the characters, relationships, spice/kink, and emotions that Nora does so well. I was bored with most of the mystery investigation. That might be a critique of the writing or might just be me. I couldn’t say which.
I was delighted to find one very drawn out sensation play scene and repeated (if not detailed) aftercare throughout the book.

I’m glad I listened to this one, to keep up with the characters in this series, but this won’t be a favorite I go back to again and again. Ok, maybe a certain scene or two. 😉

Love Michael Dean!

Love this series! This has been a very exciting series! One of my favorite authors!

Finally a 5✨️ from Nora Phoenix. Yay us

I finally found it. I finally found that 5✨️ Nora Phoenix book I was looking for. I was a bit worried I wouldn't but here we are. FINALLY.

Oh, what a journey haha.

No rules is book two of the "No Regrets" series and it was everything I wanted and more.

All the things that bothered me in book one were missing from this book. The communication between the characters was almost perfect, no major miscommunication, if you want, but the moments when they did not communicate was because they genuinely either didn't realize what they were feeling or they were trying to find a way of doing it. It was so... relatable.

We meet Alex and Ryan in "No Surrender" and we can feel the tension there even when they were secondary characters. I was so excited to finally read their book but also a bit worried since book one was lacking something ( you can check my review if you wanna know what I'm referring to ) I am glad I decided to continue the series because this one was everything I needed.

While we met them in book one and knew a bit about the way things will go, or at least we could've guessed, book two was a nice surprise. The relationship between the characters evolved so beautifully, and I loved how they truly understood each other's needs and talked about it from the beginning, and not only that ( unlike in book one ) they made it perfectly clear that the need to experience their pleasure doesn't mean something is missing from their life and/or relationship. The fact that they made this perfectly clear was what I expected Wander to do with Burke in book one but didn't. Thank you Nora.

I also loved that in this book Nora did not feel the need to make Ryan the TOP Alpha in that dubious way of hers ( again, I mentioned this in my review for book one ), Ryan was just a Dom, Alex's Dom but in a way that was believable and lead to love. Everything that happened was written in a way that helped us see the transition from lust to affection to love. It was believable, at least for me. Idk if the bar was low and this book knocked it into the stratosphere, but here we are. 5✨️

Ryan and Alex complemented each other perfectly and their journey was beautiful. Alex's sunny disposition, his patience and gentle way of loving Ryan made the grump open his heart in a way that was unexpected. His heart was obliterated in the past so Alex was exactly what he didn't know he needed in order to put all the pieces together and help him heal.

OMG, I hope book 3 will be more like this one, and not like book one. Fingers crossed and wish me luck.