I loved how Titus stuck to his morals. He isn't prepared to compromise himself or the law, he's not a dirty cop. As the brother of a criminal like Bax, he's had to make some pretty harsh decisions, and has to make a lot more of them here. I did appreciate how he starts to realise that not everybody is all bad and that the law isn't always so black and white. His loyalties are really tested throughout the book.
Reeve is hard on herself and I think she gets a pretty rough deal from most people. I was extremely judgemental in the past about how she treated Dovie, but Jay had me feeling sorry for this. Yes, Reeve's done bad things but I could understand why she does what she does - vengeance can be a real madam!! I really liked her sass and sexy charm. If she wants to escape the situation unharmed and with Titus by her side, then she's got a lot of convincing and making up to do.
What I particularly love about the Point series is how Jay Crownover never tries to make the guys into something they're not. Bax and Race are criminals, and they do bad things. Jay makes her readers fully aware of this, and so the women in their lives have to ask themselves can they deal with this and still love them as they are? Titus faces a similar issue with Reeve - he has to consider whether he can accept her as she is, whilst she has to deal with the fact that he's a cop who follows the law and is prepared to suffer for his cause.
There are lots of sexy parts in the story, as well as the sweet and romantic ones. I loved the action and dramatic scenes. We get to catch up with a few old favs, as well as meeting lots of fab new characters. I'm hoping a certain bodyguard and stroppy teen get their own book...
4.5 Heroic Stars in my Sky!
And don’t miss the previous books in The Point Series!
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.
Author Spotlight:
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.
