BETTER WHEN HE’S BRAVE is a New Adult Contemporary Romance novel being published by HarperCollins, and it is the 3rd book in Welcome to the Point Series.
This amazing book releases on August 11th
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About BETTER WHEN HE’S BRAVE
In New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover’s third novel in her sexy, thrilling Welcome to the Point series, a woman’s search for repentance leads her to the one man from her past she can’t forget as they join forces to save their city—and the explosive love neither can live without.
Titus King sees the world in black and white. Right and wrong. Which is why as a teenager he left behind the only family he’d ever known to make a better life for himself. Now a police detective in one of the worst cities in the country, he can’t deny his life has turned into a million different shades of gray.
The new criminal element in The Point has brought vengeance and destruction right to Titus’s front door, and the difference between right and wrong is nothing compared to keeping those he loves alive. To add to his already strained moral compass, the beautiful and mysterious Reeve Black has made her way back to town, and she might be as dangerous to Titus as the guy trying to destroy the Point because he needs her—in more ways than one.
Reeve knows all about how ruthless this new threat to destroy The Point can be… and instead of running away, she wants to help. She has a lot to repent for and saving the city, plus the hot cop that she hasn’t been able to forget might just be the only way she can finally find some inner peace.
With an entire city poised on the brink of war, Titus and Reeve stand in the crossfire—and it will take two brave souls to fight for the ultimate love.
Review
Titus has pledged his life to protect those who can’t protect themselves in the Point, and in doing so, he refuses to blur the lines between right and wrong, justice and revenge, good and evil. But what he learns with the war that’s brewing in his domain is that there’s always exceptions to the rule and sometimes people have to go into the gray in order to make the changes that need to be made. Sometimes being brave means adapting and unleashing their inner beast in order to get the job done.
In all of the Welcome to the Point books, the Point itself is a perfectly crafted protagonist as well as antagonist, and Jay Crownover does an exceptional job of bringing all of its glory and darkness to light and proving that if you’re a product of the point then there’s always going to be that part of you that does what needs to be done in order to protect those you love and to survive.
The Point is a wasteland of mayhem, murder, and maliciousness. It’s hell on earth where all the criminals come to play because they can hide away in the “muck and mire” and build their kingdoms. The Point personifies the evil that reigns its streets, and once it has its citizens in its grasp, it’s hard to break free because it owns them.
Titus braves the streets of the Point, trying to remain a good man in a bad place and refusing to compromise his principles. His convictions lead him to right all the wrongs on his beat and continue to do so even when it seems a waste because crime never ends and bad guys never stop terrorizing the innocent. But the reason Titus sacrifices himself to keep the Point as safe as it can be is because he’s a product of it. He knows what it feels like to struggle, to be selfish, and to make necessary choices in order to make life better.
Out of Bax, Race, and Titus, Titus is most definitely the hero more so than the anti-hero, but Jay Crownover illustrates to readers that there is a part of Titus that doesn’t play fair and will do whatever it takes to protect what’s his.
Titus is a complex hero whose character continues to transform as the dynamics of the game with Roark continues. He’s walking a tenuous tightrope between right and wrong and his struggles of staying on the right side of that line is continually at the forefront of his mind, and Jay makes it clear that in a place like the Point, the best way may not be black and white.
Reeve is the perfect woman to show Titus that his black and white world is merely a facade that he chooses to live in, suppressing the other parts of himself that don’t match up with his position as a detective. Reeve allows Titus to just be Titus, encouraging him to let the beast out and realize that one’s past definitely doesn’t have to define him, but it absolutely is an integral part of what created him and it’s not always a bad thing.
Reeve’s already blurred the line between right and wrong, and she’s working hard to set things right, but vengeance is a powerful emotion. Reeve’s would never compromise who Titus is but that doesn’t mean she won’t take her own ways when it comes to fixing a problem.
I love that Reeve sees every part of Titus and accepts him for who and what he is, and regardless of Titus’ aversion to fall for a criminal, sometimes those who break the law aren’t truly criminals, they’re just trying to set things right and go about it the wrong way, and Titus knows a thing or two about that.
Better When He’s Brave is everything I wanted Titus’ story to be and the fact that readers get to keep up with the other couples in the series makes it that much more satisfying.
Nassir is up next and I truly don’t know what to expect from his story because he seems to epitomize the anti-hero, so I can’t wait to see how Jay Crownover transforms him!
A complimentary copy was provided by the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review.
4.5 poison apples
Excerpt
The car finally skidded to a stop in a shower of gravel and dust. The headlights illuminated the drop-off in front of us. The moon was high in the sky, forcing its way through smog and clouds to shine silver. It was the same color as Titus’s eyes when he was turned on, when he was buried deep inside of me.
“I haven’t had my parents in my life for a long time, so I shouldn’t feel like I lost them. But I do.”
“I felt that way when I locked Bax up. I knew he wouldn’t understand that I had to do my job, and when he got out, the first time I saw him he punched me in the face. He hated me.” He turned off the car and reached out a finger to twist a piece of my long hair around it.
“Don’t let Roark win. Once everything is settled, go back to them and make them understand.”
I turned to look at him. He was fierce in the shadowy light. He was what heroes were supposed to look like no matter the path he had taken to become one.
“I don’t even know if I understand. At the time it felt like my only choice. Now I’m not so sure.” I leaned across the space separating us and brushed my knuckles across his still-bristly cheek. He was almost in full beard mode and it looked so good on him. “Lately the only thing I understand is you, Titus.”
He lifted one of his dark eyebrows at me and asked, “What is it that you understand about me, Reeve?”
“That you make everything better. You make me better, and I might never be good enough for you, but you make me feel like I can get close.”
One of his hands slid down to my wrist and the next thing I knew he was guiding me over the console and the emergency brake so that I was straddled across him with my back to the steering wheel. I hadn’t been in a car like this with a boy since I was a teenager. I kind of liked it. More than kind of.
“You make everything better too, Reeve, and there is no good enough because this with you is the best there has ever been.” And then his mouth was on mine and I didn’t get a chance to tell him we had left this behind and were now firmly venturing into more. Knowing that Titus was flawed, that he had made some questionable choices on his road to becoming the man he was today, made me love him even more. Where he was from was even uglier than where I was from, and that was beautiful to me. So was the way he was pulling on my clothes and kissing me along my throat.
And don’t miss the previous books in The Point Series!
BETTER WHEN HE’S BAD
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BETTER WHEN HE’S BOLD
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About Jay Crownover
Jay Crownover is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men and The Point series. 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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