Against the Rules (Boundaries, #2) By A.R. Barley Kindle Edition Gay and Lesbian Against the Rules (Boundaries, #2) Kelly OConnors out of control An RA at Halton University, he spends his off nights at a club, hoping to find what he’s looking for in rough sex with strangers. Until one night the play gets a little too rough. An isolated room, a dangerous situationand an unexpected rescue. Ian Rankin knows what Kelly wants—a true Dom, someone who will protect him instead of using him, someone who can take him to the edge without pushing him into unsafe territory. Ian knows just what Kelly needs, and hes the only man who can give it to him. Theres only one problem: Kelly is a student, and Ian is a teacher.
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Romance Kelly O Connell is a senior in college and about to graduate He s doing well in his classes and is a resident assistant in the dorms On the outside he appears to be doing well Inside he s falling apart due to his parent s deaths Kelly seeks to find comfort in anonymous hook ups and rough sex with strangers One night Kelly gets himself into a bad situation and he draws the attention of Ian Rankin who is a professor at the college Ian helps Kelly out and finds himself attracted to the young man and eager to protect him from future harm. Against the rules by linda howard The book itself was written fine and did not have any major issues technically I just really had a hard time with the plot I found it totally unbelievable and I did not like the use of BDSM as a tool to help someone with their mental health issues Kelly did not need spankings.
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I rarely DNF books but in the case of Against the Rules I read to around 45% set it aside for a few days and realized that I was actually dreading continuing the book There are a number of reasons for my DNF Kelly was a secondary character in Out of Bounds OOB and while he definitely was and continues to be a jerk he seems like a different character entirely in Against the Rules ATR Toward the end of OOB we read very briefly a few lines that Kelly is having family trouble and the death of a parent When he reappears in ATR he is into no limits BDSM and is rescued by Ian Larkin a professor we also met briefly in OOB Larkin is obsessed with keeping Kelly safe because of something that happened to a former sub years ago which is alluded to often but hasn t been revealed yet At this point in the book it s difficult to take him seriously as a dom because all we know of his background is him mentioning his beloved bullwhip and dressing in black leather a lot Also we have experienced the magical power of BDSM helping Kelly to sleep at night and stop arguing with his family The BDSM doesn t feel real in this book it s the means to an end cure Kelly keep him safe and let Ian lay to rest his demons Also it s unsettling how Ian manages to turn every conversation to BDSM and most of his internal dialog is about keeping Kelly safe with BDSM and making him his boy although they barely know each other. Against the rules synonym I received an ARC of Against the Rules from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review Visit my blog Sinfully Good Gay Book Reviews Gay and Lesbian Romance DNF at 54%I wasn t interested in what happened at all And I had a very hard time connecting with either Kelly or Ian Some things just felt weird to me What kind of Dom wants to test his sub s limits by biting him hard enough to draw blood Gay and Lesbian Romance I have mixed feelings about this book Against the Rules which can be read as a standalone is an easy read and I was definitely interested in the MCs and their relationship I didn t want to put the book down which is always a plus I liked the sweet HEA ending although I wasn t sure the MCs had done enough work to earn it Kelly a college senior just a few weeks away from graduation is into pain He lost both his parents in the last year and his aunts are trying to run his life Kelly allows others to use him and tell him how to live his life Ian is a professor and a self proclaimed Dom but this is not a student teacher romance Ian is 29 to Kelly s 22 and Ian is not Kelly s professor Kelly doesn t even take classes in Ian s department As soon as Ian meets Kelly he wants to keep him safe He claims he doesn t date students but he shows up at the dorm where Kelly is a residents assistant Kelly is mouthy and resistant but Ian keeps telling him he can make him feel good I almost felt like Ian was pushing Kelly initially although that dynamic became balanced as the two got to know each other I had a big issue with the way BDSM if you can even call it that was handled in this story Kelly is into rough sex and pain and Ian gives him a safeword but they don t really sit down and discuss their relationship and expectations Kelly keeps telling Ian he doesn t have limits and Ian doesn t do enough to set boundaries Ian isn t Kelly s Dom and Kelly is no submissive There is one scene where Ian blindfolds Kelly and spanks him There s also a summary of scenes the men have done but none of them are on page. Against the rules with michael lewis There was a whipping scene at the end that was wrong on so many levels What prompted this scene was Kelly acting like an impulsive reckless idiot because his aunt tried to push him into something he didn t want to do and rushing off to a dangerous biker bar where he s rescued by Ian and Nick Ian then decides to punish Kelly and does so in anger The last few chapters were hella melodramatic too many plot points were crammed in there all of which were resolved too easily I did wish the MCs the very best and I liked seeing Nick and Jesse again but there were just too many WTF moments I couldn t ignore Closer to 2. Against the rules with michael lewis Still hate him Gay and Lesbian he needed to go to a grief counselor Kelly s character in general did not make sense to me He made all kinds of serious decisions on a day to day basis for school and work yet couldn t make simple basic ones in his personal life I didn t understand how he could turn his functioning on and off from scene to scene Ian s character was a little bit better but his main purpose was to serve as savior to Kelly s mess and that as a plot device doesn t work for me Neither the characters or their relationship were well developed and it was very much a case of insta love The two men had horrible communication and I can t stand that especially in a BDSM book There were also a couple of scenes that I found to be so over the top I m sure my eyes rolled ie taking an Indiana Jones bullwhip to a bar fight This was a book that wasn t poorly written but the plot was just really not for me Gay and Lesbian Romance
Kelly O Connor s out of control An RA at Halton University he spends his off nights at a club hoping to find what he s looking for in rough sex with strangers Until one night the play gets a little too rough An isolated room a dangerous situationand an unexpected rescue Ian Rankin knows what Kelly wants a true Dom someone who will protect him instead of using him someone who can take him to the edge without pushing him into unsafe territory Ian knows just what Kelly needs and he s the only man who can give it to him There s only one problem Kelly is a student and Ian is a teacher Against the Rules Boundaries 2 I couldn t get into this book My reasons 1 I didn t think the teacher student relationship was handled well if at all It wasn t issue which it should ve been.
Against the rules with michael lewis 4 My biggest complain though the lack of communication drove me bunkers I can t stand too much miscommunication I wish that I had better feedback but this book and I didn t gel 2 Stars Gay and Lesbian Romance Dnf at 57% I m outtie Gay and Lesbian Romance Boundaries book 2I really enjoyed the first book in this series and I was really looking forward to this Kelly s story My expectations were probably too high and while I really liked it I didn t love it as much as the first book.
Against the rules brittany kelley Kelly has had a really tough time of it and is still reeling from everything that s happened he s been getting himself into and dangerous situations so that he can forget for a while Ian comes along and saves him from one of those dangerous situations realises what is going on and vows to help Kelly and keep him safe I enjoyed the relationship between them it was understandably slow and tentative with both of them still wary because of past experiences but it was lovely to watch their relationship develop and them fall in love So what didn t I love The resolution of Kelly s problems happened a little too quickly for me it just felt kind of rushed at the end That said I was glad to see them get their HEA and I m hoping for a little love to come Chi Chi s way next Received from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review Gay and Lesbian Romance 3.
Against the rules crossword 5 stars liked this one didn t love it Enjoyed seeing Jesse and Nick from book one too Gay and Lesbian Romance I ve read some pretty amazing BDSM novels over the years ranging from a subtler domestic discipline to the drawing of psychological and physical safe zones Tymber Dalton s The Reluctant Dom to some hardcore nasty in your face humiliation BDSM John Preston s Mr Benson Reading a few fiction books that include a BDSM relationship doesn t make me an expert on the subject of dominance and submission obviously so within my admittedly limited knowledge of the lifestyle I have to say that A.
Against the rules synonym R Barley s Against the Rules wasn t convincing to me as a healthy or believable fictional BDSM relationship Instead it reads like the Alpha Male trope that often passes for D s in the romance genre.
Against the rules nyt crossword Ian Larkin is the older man in the story Twenty nine year old Ian is a teacher of economics at Halton University He has one hard and fast rule No Dating Students That rule doesn t take than a few pages to be broken though sort of Ian rescues a student who s got himself into a bit of trouble in a nightclub bathroom and falls immediately in lust with the blond haired blue eyed Prince Charming Ian senses that Kelly O Connor is in need of some serious discipline and he wars internally over his suitability to be that Dom we gradually discover that Ian has fled from a past event where he d failed his submissive and now he suffers from the residual guilt of his decision.
Against the rules bree hayden Kelly is twenty two years old and a hot mess and I said sort of a student above because while Kelly is enrolled at the university he s not Ian s student Plus he s an adult so I m not sure how relevant the whole teacher student rule even is to this storyline other than it was an effort to create something taboo that really isn t.
Against the rules crossword At times Kelly reads much older and mature than his years while at others he seems to process emotions and events that have happened to him in a way that didn t feel suited to his age at all sometimes he behaves in ways that just come off as bizarre and inexplicable but the overarching sense of the man is that he s emotionally immature And the way he comes around to the decision that he wants to be dominated that he likes his sex on the rough side wasn t what I d call a healthy progression or exploration of sexual submission nor was I convinced that Ian should have been the Dom to take Kelly on There was too little of what I understand is an integral part of the Dom sub dynamic the communication that must come beforehand whether the arrangement is romantic in nature or not which led to the unfortunate lack of plausibility or investment in their relationship for me It all boils down to the fact that a few growls your ass is mine and a little slap and tickle don t make for a true BDSM relationship as far as I m concerned not even in fiction and I never came to a point in this story where I felt these two men had any sort of chemistry or connection to build a future on.
Against the rules synonym Not to mention the climax of the story left me staggered by the manufacturing of it for the sake of added melodrama it does play well against Kelly s emotional immaturity though The problem is I had a hard time reconciling Kelly s reasons for going off half cocked Again he s an adult so why he felt it necessary to even entertain his aunt and the rest of his family s suggestions was kind of beyond me when a simple Nope would ve sufficed Maybe that says about my own pigheadedness than anything else though.
Against the rules book While I know there are some readers out there who are going to connect with this couple on every level and who will empathize with Kelly which I did to a certain degree in the end Against the Rules just didn t work for me not as a believable D s relationship nor as a believable any sort of relationship period,
Against the rules synonym At this point the cons outweigh the pros for Against the Rules Sorry:
Against the rules podcast 5 stars rounded up Gay and Lesbian Romance I remember hating Kelly with a vengeance in the first book But I wanted to read this book anyway because Out of Bounds was ok:
Against the rules nyt crossword 3 Granted I don t read many BDSM books but the whole BDSM aspect of the story was OTT and unrealistic,
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..2 I didn t connect with the main characters