Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Better When He’s Bad by Jay Crownover

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, but it doesn’t take Dovie long to realize that some boys are just better when they’re bad.

Series: Welcome to the Point #1
Release Date: June 17th 2014
Publisher: William Marrow
Source: Manic Readers
Reviewer: Susan
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What a great book. I really enjoyed the story and the love/hate relationship between Bax (aka Shane) and Dovie. Bax was no good for a sweet girl like Dovie, at least that is what her brother thought. But being thrown together gave each time to see the other for more than they had assumed. Bax was like two different personalities and Dovie had to figure out if she could be around someone like that not knowing from one moment to the next if he was going to be the bad boy Bax or the sweet caring Shane. I liked Dovie’s persistence and how she would not give up on Bax. I look forward to reading the next book in the series about Dovie’s brother.

“It was fend for yourself or starve around my house when I was little. I learned to make do.”

 She swiveled around in the chair so we were facing each other. “Is that why you started stealing? That’s how you fended for yourself?”

 I put the empty plate on the coffee table and gave her a stony look. She was always trying to make me into something better than I really was. 

“No.  People had stuff that I wanted, so I took it from them. Cars, TVs, credit cards . . . I wasn’t stealing to make do, I was stealing because I wanted stuff that I was never going to work for.” 

She made a face at me and turned back to the computer. “That’s not entirely true.”

 I gathered up my plate and her now- empty one. I needed a smoke and to get laid, and not particularly in that order. 

“What do you know about it?”

 She lifted a shoulder and let it fall. “I know you love that car and you didn’t steal it. I know that you wanted to do something nice for your mom, so you used your talents, as felonious at they might be, to get her this house. It wasn’t all about taking stuff just because you wanted it.”

 I wasn’t used to anyone else being able to pick my true motivations out from the smoke screen I usually threw up. I couldn’t say I liked it very much.

 “I’m gonna step outside for a minute.” She waved me off and I grumbled at her under my breath. Spending time with this girl was more headache than it was worth, even if I could still taste her all across my tongue and feel her like she was embedded under my admittedly thick skin.

I let the smoke of a cigarette fill and escape out of my lungs and tried to get a handle on my rampant thoughts. There was just too much going on. Everything with Race, Titus popping back up on my radar, this girl twining her way into the very fabric of who I was. I wasn’t sure I could handle any of it with barely a month of freedom under my belt. I wasn’t the kind of man who was big on self- discovery and personal growth, only right now it didn’t seem like fate wanted to give me the option of burying my head in the sand.

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.

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