
Genre:
Young Adult / New Adult
Themes:
Coming of Age
Enemies to Lovers
First Love
Opposites Attract
Heat Level:
Medium (sex scenes are included and may use mildly graphic description)
Archetypes:
Student
Writer/ Author
Geographic Location:
United States: New England / Northeast
Setting:
Academic / School / University
Sexual / Gender Identity:
Lesbian
Protagonist Identity:
Jewish
Exception to the Rule
Golden Crown Literary Award (Goldie)
By Cindy Rizzo
When the girl in your freshman dorm makes you question all the relationship rules you've set up for yourself.
What will keep you safe—and sane—when you find yourself in a new and unfamiliar place convinced you’ll never find anyone like you?
For Robin and Tracy, it’s the rules they set for themselves as they begin their first semester at Adams University near Boston.
Robin is determined to hide in her room writing until she can get back to her homeless gay friends in New York City, whose easy exchange of sex and friendship inspires her creativity. She’s sworn off perfect princesses like Tracy Patterson, no matter how attractive she finds the mysterious Southerner on her hall with the long blonde hair and tight jeans.
And Tracy has no interest in cynical, smart-mouthed Northerners like Robin. She has her own set of rules—fine-tuned back home in North Carolina where she had a fake boyfriend and an uncomplicated string of older female lovers, including her mother’s best friend. Here at college, she already has her first conquest planned, and it’s certainly not Robin Greene.
This is a love story about two young women who can only find their true selves by finding one another. But are Robin and Tracy willing to give up all they think they know in order to find happiness?
Sometimes in life, the person who will matter most is the one who’s an exception to the rule.