The Exception to the Rule

The Improbable Meet-Cute Collection

De: Christina Lauren

Narrado por: Marli Watson, Andrew Gibson

On February 14, an accidental email to a stranger opens the door to an unexpected relationship in a captivating short story by the New York Times bestselling authors of The Unhoneymooners.

One typo, and a boy and girl connect by chance. Wishing each other a happy Valentine’s Day isn’t the end. In fact, it becomes a friendly annual tradition—with rules: no pics, no real names, nothing too personal. As years pass, the rules for their email “dates” are breaking, and they’re sharing more than they imagined—including the urge to ask…what if we actually met?

Christina Lauren’s The Exception to the Rule is part of The Improbable Meet-Cute, irresistibly romantic stories about finding love when and where you least expect it. They can be read or listened to in one sitting. Let’s make a date of it.

©2024 Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

I listen to this twice! Can't get over this 🥹💕

THE PERFECT NOVELLA DOESN'T EXIS-
excuse me but I'm in love with this sweet and perfect novella
I almost NEVER and I mean it, I almost NEVER listen to the same book twice
But I was having meh day and I was looking for something to hype me up and I decided to listen to this again
I'm still can't get over it, it was perfect and everything I wanted in a novella - perfec MMC FMC, letters, romance!
Highly recommend it 💝
10000000 ⭐

Cute

The Exception to the Rule is part of the quick listen series The Improbable Meet-Cute Series featuring six books by six authors. This is book 1. This meet cute is a mistaken email address on Valentine’s Day that starts off a yearly correspondence by two strangers. It follows them from high school through grad school, ages 14 & 16 – 25 & 26. It was a cute story. The first half was a bit hard to listen to only because it was emails back and forth and we had to repeatedly hear the to and from email address, subject line, and the date and time for every email and some of the emails were literally one sentence long so it was a bit tedious to hear that repeatedly. Otherwise, it was really fun to watch their relationship develop. It was predictable but I think that is pretty expected with this type of story. It was a quick listen at 1 hour 56 minutes. Both narrators did a good job. I listened to this book free through Kindle Unlimited. Overall, I give this book 4 stars.

Unexpected penpals

This novella was so freaking cute!! I wanted it to be chapter and chapters longer! Such a easy quick listen

So cute!

This was so cute I loved it! Maybe predictable but sometimes I love a good predictable book.

Emails

Up until chapter 12 was emails, which was really distracting with the “tos” and “froms.” However, once that was done (and they still popped up within the narrative) it was a really cute STEM story about TA/Student, penpal romance