Review- Jet by Jay Crownover

Goodreads Summary:

With his tight leather pants and a sharp edge that makes him dangerous, Jet Keller is every girl’s rock and roll fantasy. But Ayden Cross is done walking on the wild side with bad boys. She doesn’t want to give in to the heat she sees in Jet’s dark, haunted eyes. She’s afraid of getting burned from the sparks of their spontaneous combustion, even as his touch sets her on fire.

Jet can’t resist the Southern Belle with mile-long legs in cowboy boots who defies his every expectation. Yet the closer he feels to Ayden, the less he seems to know her. While he’s tempted to get under her skin and undo her in every way, he knows firsthand what happens to two people with very different ideas about relationships.

Will the blaze burn into an enduring love. . . or will it consume their dreams and turn them to ashes?

REVIEW:

While there were some good things about this book, there were many things that I didn't like. 

When I read Rule, the first book of the Marked Men series, I was a wee bit disappointed but I was pretty excited to get to Jet, book #2, and unfortunately, Jet left me feeling more disappointed. 

Jet, the male MC, sings metal music in a band and has a great bunch of friends who love and support him. His family life is really screwed. The female MC, Ayden, has left her screwed up old life behind in Kentucky and she has built a new life for herself in Denver. She too has a majorly screwed up family situation. When Ayden and Jet meet, sparks fly but even after trying their best to resist each other, they realise that their bond goes way beyond electrifying sexual attraction. 

There were many things in Jet that I didn't quite get. Jet could get any girl he wanted and I didn't really understand why he couldn't have used the same charm on Ayden. I really felt like I waited an eternity until the two MCs finally got together. And when they did get together, there wasn't much that held my interest. 

It's not like I hated the book or anything. Jet was just average and got on my nerves at times. It was a good read, but maybe it's been a lot of New Adult lately and I really need to take a break from the genre. I found Shaw's (the MC in book #1) and Ayden's voices very similar and so were Rule's and Jet's. 

I did like the sound of the next story in the series and a subtle hint or two that we got of more books to come. I'll definitely be continuing with the series and all I can hope is that the future books are better. 

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Review- Rule by Jay Crownover

Goodreads Summary:

Opposites in every way . . . except the one that matters 

Shaw Landon loved Rule Archer from the moment she laid eyes on him. Rule is everything a straight--A pre-med student like Shaw shouldn’t want--and the only person she’s never tried to please. She isn’t afraid of his scary piercings and tattoos or his wild attitude. Though she knows that Rule is wrong for her, her heart just won’t listen.

To a rebel like Rule Archer, Shaw Landon is a stuck-up, perfect princess-and his dead twin brother’s girl. She lives by other people’s rules; he makes his own. He doesn’t have time for a good girl like Shaw-even if she’s the only one who can see the person he truly is.

But a short skirt, too many birthday cocktails, and spilled secrets lead to a night neither can forget. Now, Shaw and Rule have to figure out how a girl like her and a guy like him are supposed to be together without destroying their love . . . or each other.

REVIEW:

Ah, ha! Just when I thought that Rule as a book was the most predictable book ever and the super long chapters were getting on my nerves, and all the angst, anger and drama were getting a bit irritating, I was greeted by a super sweet ending. 

Rule is the story of Shaw who has been in love with her best friend Remy's twin brother Rule since she first laid eyes on him. She has her own family problems and the Archer family accept her as one of thier own. Rule, however, wants to be independent, live his own life and have nothing to do with what others think about him. When Shaw and Rule spend Shaw's birthday night at Rule's place, everything between the two changes and they then begin to slowly fall in love. 

In so many ways, Rule reminded me of so many book bad boys I've previously read and loved. He was a little attitudinal to me, but overall I enjoyed seeing him change and grow as and how times called for it. Shaw was a good enough girl but some of her actions peeved me. Nonetheless, as a couple, Shaw and Rule were super hot and super sweet. I even liked getting to know both their families, as weird as they were, and also their friends. Which is why I'm quite excited to read Jet, the next book in author Jay Crownover's Marked Men series. 

New Adult books these days are just getting so easy to figure out. I can almost tell you the whole story after just reading one chapter from each of the protagonist's point of view. It went the same way with Rule and I tend to quite revel in the fact that I'm now so well versed with NA story lines. 

Rule was a sweet and hot read that I and trouble getting into but I enjoyed by the time I finished it. 

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