Sometimes I have to stop and wonder what century I'm living in. There's even an 'evil cheerleader' thrown in.

At least there's usually some attempt to develop the characters beyond cliched stereotypes of 'bad boy' and the 'sluts' he uses and casts aside before the 'virginal heroine' comes along. You know, it's funny how the YA genre - on average - is so much better written and more mature than NA. How? I have to ask, because I couldn't understand a whole lot of it. Did anyone even read through this once before pushing the 'submit' button? And yet, somehow, Rule has still managed to collect an impressive pile of five star ratings and glowing reviews. I appreciate that it's possible I own the original ebook that was published before the book was noticed by a major publisher (and made use of their editorial department) but, even so, I had to literally decipher each sentence.

The editing was some of the worst I've ever seen. Or by a twelve year old who only speaks broken English. But this book was so annoying, so offensive, so bad, it seemed as though it must have been written as some kind of terrible joke. You might think it no longer possible that I could be surprised by how terrible a NA book is, I thought so too before reading this. Rule contains every single thing I've come to hate about New Adult. I'm going to work my way through some of the popular New Adult books and see if I can weed out the crap and hopefully find some surprising gems. I am conducting what I'm shelving as a 'New Adult (NA) Experiment'.

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