The Dixon Rule by Elle Kennedy

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Diana Dixon has a lot going on this summer. She’s rehearsing for a ballroom dance competition, juggling two jobs, and dealing with an ex-boyfriend who can’t take the hint it’s over. Yet despite all that, she still has plenty of time and energy to tell Shane Lindley to screw off.

Shane just moved into her apartment building and seems dedicated to sleeping his way through her entire cheerleading squad. Sure, he’s a tall, gorgeous hockey player, but he’s messing with her turf. This calls for some ground rules: no parties in her apartment, leave her teammates alone, and—most importantly—leave her alone.

What Diana doesn’t realize is that Shane’s sick of hookups and tired of being on the rebound after his long-term girlfriend called it quits. He wants a relationship. And when his ex comes back into the picture, he pretends he has one to make her jealous…and who better to play the girlfriend role than his sassy new neighbor?

Despite Diana’s reluctance to break her rule, a fake relationship is the perfect solution for her own ex issues, and soon she can’t deny something is sizzling between her and Shane. Something hot and completely unexpected.

And it might just be getting a little too real.

The Dixon Rule

I liked this different take on the college sports romance!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤💙❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏
Character development: ☺️😊😁😉🥰
Narrator(s): 🎙🎙🎙🎙🎙
Narration type: Dual Narration

The heroine: Diana – she has a lot on her plate lately. Helping her family, trying to fix everything wrong with her condo. She attends Briar University and is the head cheerleader, she has two jobs to pay her mortgage, and she is practicing with her partner for an upcoming ballroom dance tournament. She has an ex-boyfriend named Percy, who can’t get it through his head that they are broken up.

The Hero: Shane – he is a star hockey player at Briar U, planning to go pro after college. He comes from a wealthy family, and his parents got him a new Mercedes for his high school graduation and recently bought him a condo to live at off campus. It is a lovely place with a pool, a weight room and a most of the residents are not college kids but are older and more professional. Shane had a girlfriend throughout high school, and they broke up a while ago, so he has gone a bit crazy with the one-night stands, but they have left him feeling empty, so he is thinking he wants to be in a relationship again.

The story: Diana has known Shane for a while and hates him. He went through more than a few of the girls on her cheer squad and left them wanting more than he was ready to give. So, she is not happy to find that Shane is moving into the condo next door. When he dates yet another of her cheerleaders and the girl tells Diana how badly he treated her (not bothering with the part where he was honest from the start about not wanting anything more), Diana feels she is justified in her hate.

I didn’t really like Diana in this book. She seemed nice enough for the most part, but she made a snap judgement about Shane and took it to the extreme. She turned everyone in the condo complex against Shane, so much so that they shunned him, and she even removed him from the group chat for the condo association. She was just a bit too cocky and mean for my liking. She got better as the book went on, and the people in the condo association were all hilarious.

I did like the fact that Diana and Shane kissed during a drinking game and started seeing each other in a completely different light. Though I wasn’t too fond of the fact that Shane was still hung up on his ex-girlfriend nearly four hours into the audiobook. Though the situation led to a good scene and also led to Shane getting more interested in Diana. Quite a lot happened in this book, it was 526 pages and over 13 hours of narration, and I never got bored.

This audiobook was told in two points of view via dual narration and was narrated by Erin Mallon and Corvin King. I like Erin Mallon; she has a nice voice and always sounds natural. She is especially good at sounding anxious. Corvin King is fairly new to me, but he has an awesome voice that is deep, soft and sounds a bit like a sexy guy who just woke up from a nap. I really like his voice.

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