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The Exception to the Rule

The Improbable Meet-Cute Collection

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The Exception to the Rule

By: Christina Lauren
Narrated by: Marli Watson, Andrew Gibson
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About this listen

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. Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Romantic Comedy Comedy
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I really enjoyed this beautiful story by the Christina Lauren duo. I absolutely loved the narrators (hate when the narrators don't suit the style of book). The only slight con I'd have is the repetitive listing of the to/from email names. But then I got used to it and understood it was to enable the listener to know when they were discussing emails vs in person encounters.
I would listen to this again. Really made for an enjoyable afternoon listen.

Beautiful short love story

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A very sweet take on the ‘meet cute’ - this novella is fun and easy to listen to! A great palette cleanser between the heavier stuff!

Super cute

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Easy listening. Great characters and excellent banter. Great story and audio was great too. Recommend it for a great short story to break up your other reads

Easy listening

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The narrators had nice chemistry. A nice short and cute story. I enjoyed it, The email address reading every time was a bit annoying.

Cute narrators

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Easy and sweet. I was after a short and easy listen and this fit the bill perfectly

Christina Lauren does it again

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Amazing how so many years were covered in a short story but it felt just the right length.

Wonderful short story!

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Really enjoyable Valentine’s Day short love story. I don’t normally read or listen to short stories however this one was definitely worth listening to.

Feb 14 Short Story

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Adorable
Enjoyable
So short
Listened - narration was fab
Listened 2024 - book ends 2026
#tothefuture
Currently on audible plus

3.5 star listen

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