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The Exception to the Rule

The Improbable Meet-Cute Collection

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The Exception to the Rule

By: Christina Lauren
Narrated by: Marli Watson, Andrew Gibson
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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.
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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.

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So cute!

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

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Unexpected penpals

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

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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

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Wish there was more…

It was so good, I hope they are prepared for more what happened to T & C questions.

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Cute short story

Sometimes you just need something short and sweet. This definitely fit the bill. It was a fun story to listen to.

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Such a romantic story!

I absolutely adored this story. A great You’ve Got Mail vibe, but so much better! The relationship starts much early on and you see them grow and connect as the years go on so when they finally meet is nothing but perfection! Narration is just as perfect! Love it!

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The perfect amuse-bouche

Omg! This short story was super cute. C.sun16 and t.sol18 exchanges email every year on/around Valentine’s Day for 10 years until an accidental meeting changes everything.

Marli Watson and Andrew Gibson narrated this beautifully. The exchanges are fun and flirty. It’s the perfect amuse-bouche.

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Loved this one the most!

Couldn’t put this one down or actually stop listening. Loved it!!! It’s a gift for Valentines Day.

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So freaking cute!!

I love this story! It was so cute and it reminded me of the best parts of the classic Jimmy Stewart movie, Shop Around the Corner. A+!

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