The Rule of 3

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Pub Date 17 Aug 2020 | Archive Date 14 Aug 2020

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This is an MMF love story. Open-minded adult readers only, please. If you don’t mind a few four-letter words and steamy scenes, and you want a book about enduring love, loyalty, and kindness, come on in and enjoy the fun.

Tanner Lassiter has easy, straightforward goals.
1. Marry the love of your life.
2. Become Kentucky’s youngest governor ever.
3. Become president.

Eli Whittaker is a kingmaker with two goals.
1. Use your billions and connections to help Tanner realize all of his dreams.
2. Don’t die of a broken heart in the process of achieving #1.

Zoë Deliban is a small-town teacher with one goal.
1. Don’t mess up Tanner’s life by letting him know you still love him.


This is an MMF love story. Open-minded adult readers only, please. If you don’t mind a few four-letter words and steamy scenes, and you want a book about enduring love, loyalty, and kindness, come on...


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The Rule of 3 is a MMF romance novel by Ariella Talix about a man named Tanner Lassiter and his childhood sweetheart Zoe and his college boyfriend Eli. This was the first novel of this nature that I have read so I went in not knowing what to expect. The beginning was a little rough because I felt the backstory was a little too choppy and didn’t flow right. However once you got into the meat of the story it flowed better and was an actual good story and the steamy sections were oh so steamy I thought I was going to blush. Overall I liked the story and the characters and how well they meshed together.

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Some of this book is a little cheesy others are rather hot and steamy. I could have done without as much of the explanation at the beginning of the book. It almost felt like filler to make it a little bit longer. I feel that their backgrounds could have been explained in one or two chapters.

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Tanner has his life planned out and he is set out to make the girl he fell in love with years ago fall for him again. Little does he know she never stopped loving him. When the time comes for their wedding Eli, Tanner’s college roommate and friend show up to be his best man and soon sparks are flying between the three. Will someone try to destroy their love and ruin his admissions? Steamy with great characters and loads of drama. I really liked it.

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The Rule of three is MMF romance book.

Tanner Lassiter has easy, straightforward goals.
1. Marry the love of your life.
2. Become Kentucky’s youngest governor ever.
3. Become president.

Eli Whittaker is a kingmaker with two goals.
1. Use your billions and connections to help Tanner realize all of his dreams.
2. Don’t die of a broken heart in the process of achieving #1.

Zoë Deliban is a small-town teacher with one goal.
1. Don’t mess up Tanner’s life by letting him know you still love him.

The book spans over about 15 years of the three main characters lives. I enjoyed the MMF characters and I wish that we could see further into the future for these three characters.

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This book is about a small town couple turned throuple! A man named Tanner, who has political aspirations, finds himself in love with a woman and a man. I'm new to this genre but found that it was more of a romance with a couple of racy scenes.

I also found this book was written in a way that it felt like you were reading the way someone talks - if that makes any sense.

3.5 rounded up to 4 stars.

Thank you to bookbuzz.net and NetGalley for the eGalley. All opinions expressed are my own.

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A beautifully written book that's choke-full of feelings and overflowing with emotion. Tanner had ambitions of running for President one day so he needed to keep his relationship with his roommate Eli a secret. Eli was wealthy, politically connected, and essentially a Kingmaker. Eli knew that if Tanner was to achieve his Presidential dreams he needed to maintain a more 'traditional' lifestyle. He helped him win the love back from his high school girlfriend Zoe. If you like menage stories you'll enjoy this book. The first part is a little slow and the last a little rushed, IMO. Otherwise a good read. The characters have a lot of depth and the storyline is engaging. I received a free copy of this book via Net Galley and am voluntarily leaving a review

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Politics. Laughs. Small towns. What more could you want when it involves a past love and a love-friendship that will last a lifetime.

Not expecting a 5 star read from the cover, but WOW, these characters and this storyline was a heart-melting small town romance that I think all romance lovers could fall in love with. Zoe, Tanner and Eli were the perfect throple that Ariella wrote. She paired the perfect amount of chemistry, lust, and sass that makes this an awesome, unputdownable ménage romance for 2020.

I would love to see a .5, a novella come out to see what their lives are like at retirement with their children and their love for one another.

I am looking forward too seeing other books by this author as this was my first time reading a book by her.

*ARC provided by Netgalley and the author for an honest and trustworthy review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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The Rule of 3 by Ariella Talix is a super-steamy MMF Romance. MMF you had me sold! I love that dynamic in an erotic romance! The political nature of this book added to the higher stakes to keep the relationship a secret, which made it more dangerous and exciting.

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I received a free copy of this book in return for an honest review.

Tanner is a young, handsome, aspiring politician who fell in love with his college roommate Eli. However, if he wanted to achieve his goal of becoming president one day, he would need to leave his love behind and aim for a more “traditional” family. Eli knew Tanner still loved his childhood sweetheart, Zoë, despite breaking her heart when he left for college. Could he win back Zoë’s heart? How would he reconcile his love for both her and Eli?

While I did enjoy reading this book, there were some things that took away from it. While there are political undertones, it does not interfere with the storyline. If anything, I think that made the story less believable because there is no way an MMF relationship could be kept hidden from the public eye as Tanner is so popular with the media. Yes, there was the threat of blackmail at one point but that was dealt with almost too easily. Also, it was strange how quickly Zoë was willing to go from “oh my God, I’m a beard!” to having Eli share their newlywed bed.

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Well that was fantastic! I truly enjoyed every page, the smokin’ hot scenes were some of the best I have read, the characters were well put together. I will admit her almost immediate acceptance of Eli was iffy, but this is not a very long book so I understand the need to get things moving. I enjoyed this beautiful mmf, with the light political aspects. This could have easily been a couple hundred more pages that I would have read easily.

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This is a fun, sexy book. I loved it cover to cover. The characters jumped off the page and their story warmed my heart. I highly recommend it to readers who like MMF.

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I enjoyed this book. Interesting storyline and characters. Good chemistry. Great romance. I would definitely read this author again.

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