9. Exception to the Rule by Christina Lauren

listened on  Audible
101 pgs.
2024
Adult Rom Com - Short Story

Finished 1/27/2024
Goodreads rating: 4.39
My rating: 5
Setting: Contemporary colleges across America

My comments: Absolutely adorable.  Written almost entirely in emails. Cute short story about a high school boy and girl who mistakenly emailed each other on Valentine's Day in 2014 and continued the correspondence annually until 2023, when they were in grad school.  They'd never given each other much information about themselves, including their names, only knowing they'd both grown up in Irvina, California.  So much fun!

Goodreads synopsis:  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.