Review ~ Jet: A Marked Men Novel by Jay Crownover

Posted June 9, 2013 by Karen in Book Reviews / 0 Comments

Review ~ Jet: A Marked Men Novel  by Jay Crownover

Review ~ Jet: A Marked Men Novel  by Jay CrownoverJet by Jay Crownover
Also by this author: Rome, Nash, Better When He's Bad, Rowdy, Better When He's Bold, Asa, Better When He's Brave (Welcome to the Point, #3)
Series: Marked Men #2
Also in this series: Rome, Nash, Rowdy, Asa
on May 28, 2013
Genres: New Adult
Format: eARC
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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?

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 ~ Karen’s Review ~

One complicated, messed up dude seeks one complicated, messed up gal for a life-altering good time. This is the premise of the book Jet presented to you in a nice tidy package. But, for Jay Crownover fans you will all know if you’ve read her first book Rule Marked Men #1, she doesn’t do nice, and tidy is boring with a capital B.

In Crownover’s sophomore novel Jet, you have the rock god Jet Keller introduced in the book Rule as the male protagonist. He is sex on a stick and has enough angst-driven emotions to rock a pair of skintight leather pants on and off stage. Jet comes from a hard background; he left home at fifteen, and he has been dealing with his family’s problems all of his life. Jet’s passion is his music–what he does for a living is his life. He puts all his angst and emotions into the songs he writes. He has his tight group of “marked men” and his band he hangs with; they are the family he has chosen, not the family he was born into. Neither of his parents has been there for Jet.  His father is a louse, and his mother is wrapped up in a cycle of degradation at the hands of her husband. This has left Jet emotionally stunted, as he can’t save someone who doesn’t want to be saved, even a parent who cares more about her husband than she does her own child. Yes, Jet is living his life, but at the same time he has put his future on hold for his mother, which no true parent would ever allow their child to do. No, I don’t have a lot of sympathy for Jet’s mom.

In Jet, the female protagonist is Ayden Cross, a quick-witted, no crap taking, sexy, and long legged southern belle, who happens to be running from her murky past. Ayden, as all you Rule fans will remember, is best friends with Shaw, the heroine from that book.   She is a go-getter with a life plan–a plan on how she needs life to be in order for her to feel secure. Ayden is on the straight and narrow, and nothing or no one is going to upset her plans.

Ayden’s past is clouded in mystery, as she doesn’t talk about her life B.D. (Before Denver), as she doesn’t want anything to do with her past or “old” Ayden.  Ayden is running from the person she was in her hometown of Woodward, Kentucky; she has placed that part of her life in a steel box with a lid on it. The problem is when she runs away from herself, even from the not so nice parts, she is strangling off a part of her personality. Yes, Ayden acts tough as nails, but at heart she is running scared from who she was and running towards who she thinks she should be–neither of which are true to the real Ayden.

When her past collides with her carefully crafted life in Denver, Ayden spirals out of control.  Control and a carefully a crafted future is what Ayden has emotionally relied on since moving to Denver, and both are slipping away from her. Where will this girl from the bluegrass state and the rocker end up? As always, you’ll have to read the book to find out for yourself.

What I like about Jet is that Crownover is so true to her characters; the characters’ personalities that started in Rule are the same ones you find in Jet. Bot, Ayden and Jet were minor characters in Rule, but they both had solid foundations on which Crownover built complex and likable people.  They are both messed up in their own way, but they are puzzle pieces that just need to find their connecting pieces. These two characters make decisions with their messed up hearts for which I wanted to slap both of them upside the head. I understood both these characters as Crownover wrote both points of view allowing me, the reader, into the inner working of both Jet’s and Ayden’s hearts. The emotional and sexual attraction between them is palpable and well worth the price of the book as Crownover writes intense sex scenes.  I like that the whole ‘marked men’ gang is on hand. Loved getting more of Cora, who is a wild hoot that I would love as a friend. Crownover’s sophomore book is a must read and can stand on its own merits. You’ll be glad you read it; I am.

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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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