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The Exception to the Rule

By: Christina Lauren
Narrated by: Marli Watson, Andrew Gibson
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Publisher's summary

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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Modern Love

If you enjoyed the Amazon show New York Times column “Modern Love”, then this book is for you! Even though it was a short story, I think it was just enough and so cute. Definitely a warm fuzzies read. 💖

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Cute

This is a cute novella. Mainly through email, we see T and C’s relationship build because of a misplaced email during their high school years. When they finally do get to meet one another, sparks do fly, of course.

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This was fun......

This was my second favorite short story from this collection.

The FMC and the MMC somehow start a tradition of wishing each a Happy Valentines Day that starts when they are 14 and 16 years of age. It was a mistake made by one of the characters the first time yet they begin the tradition each new year. They do not know the name of the other person. They only know the email address and no other personal details.

This tradition goes one for many years until they both end up at the same graduate school and they make the decision to start giving out a little bit of personal details. What happens next is fun to follow.

A really sweet, cute story that left me with a smile on my face.

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I laughed out loud so many times!

super cute story that made me laugh out loud so many times! loads of fun!

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Unexpectedly entertaining

It was so intriguing I couldn’t stop listening,
I just tried it because it was short and cheap. Needed something not dark for the night. it kept making me smile, I had to know how it ended! Then they took it up a notch, story line and tease of spicy ..could be a good Netflix episode ..since I saw there are other shorts in the series. I’m going to listen to the rest! If they are not good. It was worth this one story alone.

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Sweet Novella

Short and sweet with banter. Great performances from both narrators in dual form. Perfect Valentine's listen.

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So cute!

Took me a minute to get past all the t-dot-sun16 stuff, but the store got better and i started looking forward to the emails! It’s a cute easy ready, perfect for a plane ride!

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So good!!!

This book was so cute and I really enjoyed that despite it being short, it truly fleshed out the story and gave us a complete start to finish!

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Made me smile so hard!

Honestly, I enjoyed this so much more than I expected to. The banter between the two is hilarious and the chemistry is perfect. I both wanted to get to the end to see how everything turns out and wanted it to last forever at the same time. I highly recommend it if you enjoy cute, quick little stories with fun characters and humorous conversations.

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Email threads

It was a really cute story but I honestly disliked the reading from the emails but they didn’t know names so I get it lol. Once it was a regular read I enjoyed it very much.

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