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 The Rules Review 
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 THE RULES is a pretty ordinary book. There was nothing that particularly made it stand out. I was always waiting for the action to pick up, get more into the real guts of the novel, but it didn't get to the story promised until about the last fifty pages. 
 As an alien/human hybrid, Ariane has to take extra care and precaution to fit into society. She has lived a majority of her life following five simple rules, but when an event shoves her into the middle of some high school drama, she finds herself slowly breaking each and every one of them. 
 THE RULES promises an interesting story of science fiction and extraterrestrials but what we get is more along the lines of a contemporary romance with a girl who just happens to be hiding from a laboratory because she's a bit different. The first three hundred some pages is a romance. 
 Now, the fact that I withstood three hundred pages of romance in a promised sci-fi should be a testament in and of itself. It's somewhat ironic but what made this book so good was the romance. Ariane and Zane complemented each other perfectly and I loved their dynamic, as well as the gradual build up of their relationship. 
 However, those three hundred do get tedious after awhile, usually after you figure out there isn't going to be as much action as you originally might have thought. That is where my disappointment lay. Otherwise, this was pretty enjoyable. Get rid of the alien plotline and I think this could be a fantastic contemporary. 
 I will be reading the sequel, as the ending left off with so many possibilities!