Love Doesn’t Play by the Rules

Title: Love Doesn’t Play by the Rules
Author: Sandi Perry
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 9781450202046
Pages: 226, Paperback, Hardcover & Kindle
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Reviewed by: Barbara Miller, Pacific Book Review

Book Review

Put on your Hermes scarf we’re going to Tiffany’s! Off in the awaiting limo to go shopping is the lifestyle of the Manhattan socialite Cassandra Whitney, known to her inner circle simply as Cassie. She wasn’t born with just a silver spoon in her mouth; she had the entire place setting. With brains, drop dead gorgeous good looks, and as elusive to the scores of men trying to trophy her as a linebacker running to the end zone, she is caught in the whirlpool of romance with the #1 voted sexiest bachelor movie star Jonny Duponi.

Cassie, doing what she always has done by playing hard to get, added fuel to the fire-burning-desire inside the testosterone overdosed heartthrob Jonny. Use to always getting what he wanted with his cool-o-rama techniques, Jonny wasn’t able to get Cassie where he wanted her – between the sheets. Control became overturned once Cassie realized she really was the prey, not the predator as she so commonly believed. Her world became dismantled, love peeled apart layer by heart-felt layer, and her values were re-established in a new hierarchy of importance.

Sandi Perry writes wonderfully using the vernacular and a dialogue-rich storytelling style to embellish the most intimate moments of her beautiful characters. The reader becomes a “fly on the wall” hearing and seeing Cassie, her friends; her employees all talk and interact within the lifestyle so commonplace among the upper echelons of society. The pages of Love Doesn’t Play by the Rules turn like peddles of a bouquet of roses being plucked while the children’s poem “She loves me, she loves me not,” resonates in the reader’s mind.

I must say this book is a delightful “time out” and a lovely way to immerse your emotions vicariously into the hearts of Cassie and Jonny. After all, it’s why we love to read romance novels, isn’t it?