Rule Breaker

April 6, 2015
Leighâs long-running, once innovative Breeds paranormal romance series (Stygianâs Honor) is showing its age. While she still manages to create erotic romances for her long-suffering characters, she employs increasingly convoluted subplots to hide her reuse of elements from earlier works. Breeds leader Jonas Wyatt tasks Cmdr. Rule Breaker with discovering whether Gypsy McQuade is a mole for the Unknown, a shadowy Navajo organization whose members might have the cure for the illness afflicting Jonasâs adopted daughterâs. As the Mate Matcher, Jonas has ulterior motives, but Ruleâs refusal to find his mate, along with some anomalies, blinds him to his compatibility with Gypsy. For her part, Gypsy believes sheâs unworthy of love, and in their first intimate moment, Ruleâs behavior only convinces her that she is damaged goods. The charactersâ romance is as improbable as their names. Readers will be glad that Leigh concludes a riveting subplot begun in earlier books, but the primary feeling that arises while reading this one is déjà vu.