A Secret Melody
Rules Series # 4
By Hanleigh Bradley
Release Date: July 26th, 2018

My name is Melody Peters and I’m dead. Gosh, that sounds dramatic doesn’t it – except I guess you don’t get more dramatic than dead.
I have been awhile now. I’ve gotten used to it. I’m well passed the acceptance stage.
I died when I was sixteen. A car crash. A drunk driver, I think. I’d been on my way home from boarding school with my best friend Abby. But then I’d died.
I don’t think I was ready to die. I had too may things left to do. Fuck, I hadn’t even written a bucket list yet. The one thing I had done?
I’d fallen in love.
His name was Zach. Zach Mulligan. He wasn’t my first boyfriend. Hell, he wasn’t even the first boy my big brother caught trying to climb out my bedroom window. Although, he was only the second. I wasn’t a complete slag.
But he was the first and only boy I ever fell in love with.

Amount of sex 2 / 5
How explicit are the sex scenes 2 / 5
Story 4.5 / 5
Overall: 4.5 / 5

A Secret Melody is the fourth book in the Rule Series, which was written by author Hanleigh Bradley. This heartbreaking novella tells the story of Melody Peters. Melody is the sister of Landon, who is the main character in the first three books. I believe you can read this as a standalone story, but in my opinion, it’s really meant to be read in order.

I really loved Melody and Zach’s story. You will definitely need a box of tissues with this one! A fabulous series!

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Broken Rules
Rules Series # 1
By Hanleigh Bradley
Release Date: September 12th, 2015

Peoples’ expectations can make you or break you. Aurora Stone knows what it’s like to be raised under heavy expectations. From an early age, her parents’ laid the law down and she’d never strayed off the path that they had laid before her. She kept every rule they ever gave her and for every rule she broke, she felt immense guilt whilst her little sister made it her life’s mission to break the rules.

“Everyone calls me perfect; the perfect daughter, the perfect student, the perfect friend, practically perfect in every way, I might as well be fricking Mary Poppins. I was brought up on a list of rules and I don’t remember the last time I broke one…”
Don’t drink to excess and never get drunk. Don’t do drugs, not even just to try it, just don’t do it. Don’t lie, never cheat on a test. Always be the best, get the best results, be competitive but be generous and gracious. Don’t do anything that might put you in danger. Work hard, be selfless. Don’t dress inappropriately; only wear skirts that fall below the knee. No piercings and definitely no tattoos. Don’t gamble. Do charity work. Go to church, sing in the choir, find yourself a nice Christian boy and settle down, get married, have children, and above all else never ever have sex outside of wedlock. The list of rules seems endless. Aurora decides on a night out with her friends that she wants to break the rules, so when she sees Landon sat at the bar watching her, she makes a split second decision that might just change her life, one broken rule at a time.

When Landon offers to help her break the rules, he doesn’t expect her to break his rules too.

Aurora Stone knows what it means to keep the rules. She’s lived with the expectations of the people around her. The only person whose expectations aren’t met? Hers. On the spur of the moment, Aurora decides to break the rules. Only the list seems endless and Aurora is a little overwhelmed by it. When she sees Landon sat at the bar watching her, she makes a split second decision that might just change her life, one broken rule at a time. The list of broken rules quickly exceeds the number of rules they keep as they embark on this whirl wind adventure of control and chaos.

Amount of sex 4 / 5
How explicit 3.5 / 5
Story 4 / 5
Overall: 4 / 5

Broken Rules is the first book in the Rules series by Author Hanleigh Bradley and the first that I have read from the author. As the title suggests, this book is all about rules. Aurora has always been the good girl and follows every rule that her parents set. She now lives in an apartment with her two friends and she starts questioning her life. Aurora decides she’s old enough to do what she wants and begins the mission to break each of her parent’s rules.

Landon is a playboy and has a set of rules that he follows, but for a different reason. He created those rules to prevent any of his conquests from getting attached to him. So, when they meet at a bar, not only do her rules get broken, but so does his.

I really love this steamy novel and can’t wait to read the next in the series, Enforcing Rules! A definite add to your TBR list!

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Enforced Rules
Rules Series # 2
By Hanleigh Bradley
Release Date: February 8th, 2016

Landon doesn’t understand how a girl he barely knows could possibly get under his skin when he’s managed to keep all the rest at arms lengths. His world seems to be unravelling and fast; what with his mother’s revelations over lunch and his father’s insistence that he take over the family business.

Landon is at a loss what to do about any of it.
Her ability to make his rules seem completely irrelevant terrifies him, especially when he rashly invites her to his parents’ house for dinner and he accidentally allows her to see more than he would like. He doesn’t do vulnerable and that’s exactly what she makes him; weak and completely at her mercy.

With control out of his reach though he might just push to enforce the rules between himself and Aurora in a desperate attempt to reclaim the control he craves. After all, he told Aurora he would help her break her rules but he hadn’t planned on it being at the expense of his own. But will his need for control prove too much for Aurora.

Amount of sex 4 / 5
How explicit 3.5 / 5
Story 5 / 5
Overall: 5 / 5

Enforced Rules is the second book in the rules series and it is completely captivating! If you have taken some time off between books, Ms. Bradley does a great job of reminding us what occurred in the first book. Although, to fully understand and appreciate, I believe it’s best to read Broken Rules first before beginning this one.

In this story, Landon and Aurora are both coming to terms with their feelings and the effects of breaking their rules. They are trying to make their relationship work when more family drama occurs. I enjoyed reading more about Landon and Aurora’s siblings and wonder if anything will happen between them. (I hope so!)

The sex scenes are smoking hot and I love how assertive Aurora has become! I just love this series and can’t wait to read the next book!

Voluntarily Reviewed a Gifted Copy

Revised Rules
Rules Series # 3
By Hanleigh Bradley
Release Date: March 26th, 2016

Landon and Aurora continue to make and break the rules in the third and final part of the Rules Series. Now that they are together they try to put their rules behind them but it might be easier said than done. Living together so early on in their relationship seemed like a great idea when Aurora first moved in, but a few weeks in they are beginning to realise that they both have flaws. Aurora still hasn’t told her parents that she is living with Landon, much to his irritation and Landon is distracted with the running of his father’s company. So when life gets even more complicated and neither one of them feels in control of what’s happening around them. Together, they learn that control is often fleeting but those moments of control can be hot and extremely intense, especially when the person you love is giving you that control, and losing control can be even more exhilarating when you lose it together. Who will come out on top in their fight for control?

Amount of sex 3.5 / 5
How explicit 3.5 / 5
Story 5 / 5
Overall: 5 / 5

Revised Rules is the amazing conclusion to Hanleigh Bradley’s steamy and exhilarating Rule Series. We begin the third book shortly after we were left in the second. Aurora is living with Landon, unbeknownst to her family, and happy as ever. Their relationship is going smoothly until Aurora goes with her dad to L.A and everything goes out of control.

Revised Rules is emotional and you’ll need a box of tissues! Oh, and an extra pair of panties! I must tell you, I absolutely love Landon and this book just reinforced how awesome he is!

He is definitely a “Multitasking God!”

Voluntarily Reviewed a Gifted Copy

Hanleigh Bradley

Hanleigh is a brand new British author. She’s written one series so far; the Rules Series and is already working on the second; The History Series.

Hanleigh loves books more than nearly anything in the world; whether it’s reading them or writing them, Hanleigh just can’t get enough. She relishes in the way authors can create worlds with the words they put in their books. Hanleigh absolutely adores Romantic Fiction. She first fell in love with literature as a small child reading Dr Seuss. She then fell in love with romance literature when she first read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Hanleigh is about as English as it’s possible to be. She sometimes wishes she could live inside the world that she can create inside her mind, but since that isn’t possible she puts pen to paper and shares that world with this world instead.