Title: Better When He's Bad
Author: Jay Crownover
Series: Welcome to the Point
Release Date: June 17th 2014
Synopsis
New York Times and USA
Today bestselling author Jay
Crownover returns with a heart-stopping new series… Welcome to the Point.
There’s
a difference between a bad boy and a boy who’s bad . . . meet Shane Baxter.
Sexy,
dark, and dangerous, Bax isn’t just from the wrong side of the tracks, he is
the wrong side of the tracks. A criminal, a thug, and a brawler, he’s the
master of bad choices, until one such choice landed him in prison for five
years. Now Bax is out and looking for answers, and he doesn’t care what he has
to do or who he has to hurt to get them. But there’s a new player in the game,
and she’s much too innocent, much too soft…and standing directly in his way.
Dovie
Pryce knows all about living a hard life and the tough choices that come with
it. She’s always tried to be good, tried to help others, and tried not to let
the darkness pull her down. But the streets are fighting back, things have gone
from bad to worse, and the only person who can help her is the scariest,
sexiest, most complicated ex-con The Point has ever produced.
Bax
terrifies her, awakening feelings she never thought she’d have for a guy like
him. But it doesn’t take Dovie long to realize . . . some boys are just better
when they’re bad.
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Author Bio
Jay Crownover is the New York Times and USA Today
bestselling author of the Marked Men series. She will also be introducing the
dark and sexy world of The Point in a new series this summer starting with
Better When He’s Bad. Like her characters, she is a big fan of tattoos. She
loves music and wishes she could be a rock star, but since she has no aptitude
for singing or instrument playing, she'll settle for writing stories with
interesting characters that make the reader feel something. She lives in Colorado
with her three dogs.
Review
“My name is
Shane Baxter, Bax to most people, and I’m a thief.”
Welcome to the Point. A fucked-up place where one
does anything and everything to survive. That, most of the times, means being a
bad guy. Now, it all depends on everyone’s definition of ‘bad’ because bad can
be good too.
Novak is the baddest of the bad and he’s after Bax,
who’s out of jail after being set up by his best friend. He spent five years in
and wants revenge, or at least to find his best friend and find out why. This
leads him to his best friend’s sister, Dovie.
Dovie may have had the typical Point life and shitty
childhood but she still kept hope that things will be better and she wants to
help and change things. Hence why she’s working her ass off and studying to
become a social service worker and help kids to become more than just thugs,
thieves and murderers in the Point.
These two characters have one thing in common: Race,
Bax’s best friend and Dovie’s brother. They both need to find him because a lot
of people want Race dead.
It’s different, this book. This series. I was
pleasantly surprised.
Bax is bad, no doubt there but it’s not the worst kind of bad out there and he proves this, time and again, especially towards the end, when he’s about to make the ultimate sacrifice. Dovie may want a better life and to help kids but she’s not stupid and knows how things and life truly is in the Point, hence why she accepts Bax just the way he is. Bax is bad only when he has to be.
Bax is bad, no doubt there but it’s not the worst kind of bad out there and he proves this, time and again, especially towards the end, when he’s about to make the ultimate sacrifice. Dovie may want a better life and to help kids but she’s not stupid and knows how things and life truly is in the Point, hence why she accepts Bax just the way he is. Bax is bad only when he has to be.
“Being out of
control isn’t always a bad thing.” ~ Bax
“She
was like some kind of redemption I never even realized I needed until we
collided into each other’s lives.” ~ Bax
“You
don’t need anyone to show you how to be good, you’re so much better when you’re
bad.” ~ Dovie <--- That aha moment
when the title makes sense.
“We wore our
battle scars loud and proud and showed the rest of the world they could try and
take us down but we survived anyway.” ~ Dovie
I liked it and am curious to see where it all leads.
4 stars to a pretty good start to a new series.
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I love everything about reading about bad boys - they're my favorite! :-)
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