Breaking the Rules (Marriage by Design) Paperback – Illustrated, May 2, 2020

You really do not need to read The Earl's Inconvenient wife before you read this but it is free and is the sister to the main character in this book. I did enjoy both of the greatly. The only problem I have with this author is that she write about virgin who seems to know all the sexual moves. I find this hard to believe. With both male and female being their first time there is no shyness or deal with the issues you have the first time. Both knew just how to act and what to do. It was to easy and not at all like the first time of making love.It starts out very slow and took me a little while to get into it. Lilly I didn't care for at first but she grows on you as time goes along. She is very selfish and is use to getting what she wants. It took her awhile to understand what love is and what is important in marriage. Once she got that down it didn't take her long before she made her move. At the ball she got rather nasty but the people had it coming but she was over stepping herself when she started the scandal.Roger is a likable character and has had enough of her and her selfish ways, just as she finds out that he is the man for her, he said enough and walked away. What follows is one nasty mess and a lot of fun straightening it out.I thought it was a good read, very interesting a little unbelievable at times but I did enjoy it very much

Lilly and Roger have hidden depths. Lilly's character grows during this book. She gets sexy times and a happily ever after.

I almost didn't read this book when I saw the very first page, which said:Before reading this book: I recommend reading The Earl’s Inconvenient Wife before reading this book. That is where you can find Miss Lilly Lowell and Mr. Roger Morris’ backstory. If you don’t already have it, The Earl’s Inconvenient Wife is free at your preferred retailer. This book takes place between the events of The Earl’s Inconvenient Wife and A Most Unsuitable Earl in the Marriage by Scandal Series. So Lord Edon and Mr. Christopher Robinson are NOT married at this point in the Regency timeline.I had no problems reading this book as a stand-alone. The MC's were likeable and relatable. The H, Mr. Morris, courted the h for two years and finally proposed marriage, which the h declined. This broke his heart, hurt his feelings and his pride. The h became engaged to someone else and ended up breaking off the engagement when she found out what a reprobate he was. This is when she decided to marry Mr. Morris after all, except he now wanted nothing to do with her. She chose to create a scandal in order to trap him into marriage. This ended up blowing up in her face and causing a lot of heartache.This book was enjoyable and is good enough to read once.

Reminds me of when I was in college and we had curfews. We spent a lot of time doing the opposite of what we were told. We need rules. Chaos if we didn't have them.

This second story in the Marriage by Design series is just a good the first one and is about Lilly and Roger whose proposal Lily rejected, but she is a woman, after all, and as such decides she wants to marry him - but he is no longer interested.Her clever plan seems to backfire, or does it really?This is another well written, intriguing love story between two delightful characters whom I couldn't help but love.A perfect read for a lazy, rainy Saturday afternoon and I enjoyed it ever so much!

Breaking the rules can be fun, but then you have to face the consequences! Lily is trying to convince Mr. Morris that she loves him and wants to marry him now. However, last year she refused his proposal. Ruth Ann Nordin takes you on a journey where Lily defies the ton and breaks the rules to try to win back Mr. Morris. Read this book to see what Lily does and if she accomplishes her goal. Happy reading! 😊

This isn't a favorite story by this author. I don't care for the beginning but I did enjoy the ending.

Repetition of conversations, thoughts, words, and actions is tedious, especially when there is no depth of character development. The characters are colorless cardboard cutouts, and dialog is painfully stilted. Their emotions, as someone once said, run the gamut from A to B.I tried to get a count, or at least an estimate, of the number of times the word "townhouse" was repeated, but Amazon's search choked and stalled at "indexing..." Almost as frequent were the words "gentleman/gentlemen" and "lady/ladies", even when "woman" or "man" would be much more appropriate. There is no sense of era, socio-political context, or historical perspective, simply these bland wooden puppets trundling from townhouse to townhouse and discussing one another endlessly. The ridiculous device of having the leading female character wearing a blonde wig to make herself more attractive to gentlemen is absolutely ludicrous, especially when it stays firmly in place when she and the object of her affections go sprawling in the middle of a ballroom floor.As the author recommends, I dutifully read this work's predecessor, "The Earl's Inconvenient Wife." It was just as stilted and shallow, so I won't be pursuing anything further by this author.

Hadn't read this author before, but enjoyed the book. Look forward to reading the next instalment in the series and hope it's a good as the first.

Great read.

Good read

OK, bit dull

Quite a good read