Leveled by Jay Crownover * Release Day * Review * Giveaway

Posted November 2, 2015 by Yesi in Blog Tour, Book Reviews / 2 Comments

Leveled by Jay Crownover * Release Day * Review * Giveaway

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We are so excited to bring you the Release Day Launch for LEVELED by Jay Crownover! LEVELED is a Contemporary Romance novella in The Saints of Denver Series being published by HarperCollins. This amazing novella releases TODAY, so be sure to grab your copy now!

About LEVELED

We all need a hero…let the Saints of Denver begin.

Orlando Frederick knows what it is to be leveled by pain. Instead of focusing on his own, he’s made it his mission to help others: sports stars, wounded war vets, survivors of all kinds. But when Dom, a rugged, damaged, sinfully attractive cop makes his way into Lando’s physical therapy practice, he might be the biggest challenge yet. Lando loved one stubborn man before and barely survived the fallout. He’s not sure if he can do it again.

Dominic Voss is a protector. The police badge he wears is not only his job, it’s his identity, so when he’s sidelined because of an injury, the only thing he cares about is getting back on the force. He expects Lando to mend his body, he just doesn’t realize the trainer will also have him working towards a hell of a lot more. As attraction simmers and flares, Dom sees that Lando needs repair of his own…if only the man will let him close enough to mend what’s broken.

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Yesi’s Thoughts

I don’t even know where to begin with this one. Seriously. I feel like these characters, this place, this family, has been part of me for so long now that with each new installment or in this case bridge book, I fall more and more in love with them. Leveled came as a huge surprise as you already know and I honestly couldn’t believe that Lando and Dom were getting a book, much less a book about THEM! TOGETHER!!! Holy WOW is what kept playing over and over in my mind. I honestly did not know what to expect as this is Jay Crownover’s first M/M book and one that is so closely tied to a beloved series.

Leveled exceeded my expectations. It made me fall for two broken men who found their way to each other. Two men that for two very different reasons were on the verge of losing it. One living in a his own personal hell and one who spent years after losing he love of his life utterly lost before being in a good place again. From the moment they met, the sexual tension and sizzling chemistry was there. And while this is a novella, it really felt like a full-length novel. It never felt rushed, the reluctant relationship was given plenty of time to develop and eventually explode. But what I think I loved most, besides Dom and Lando of course, was that even though it was tied to The Marked Men series, with most of the characters making an appearance and at times a prominent one, it felt like a completely new book, which it is, but I don’t know how to better explain it.

Leveled is truly the perfect bridge between the end of The Marked Men series and the beginning of the Saints of Denver series. Ms. Crownover brought the angst, the troubled leading man, or men, the romance, the hot, hot sex, and a story to back it all up.  “Two boys kissing” well done Jay Crownover! I wholeheartedly approve!

 

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EXCERPT

He reached out and shut the medical file in front of him and leaned back in his chair. His eyebrows arched up, and he laced his fingers together and put his index fingers under his chin.

“What exactly are you after, Mr. Voss?” His voice was smooth and modulated. I was a disaster, a bundle of nerves and anxiety, and this dude was acting like we were talking about the weather, not my entire life and everything I had ever worked my ass off for.

Defiantly I spread my legs apart and slumped back in the chair across from him, making it a point to affect a posture that was as casual as his was professional. I had on a faded DPD T-shirt and a pair of jeans with a hole in the knee, and both were a little baggy since I’d lost some of my bulk being laid up in the hospital after the accident. If the guy across from me was a cherry-red Ferrari, then I was a rusted-out and battered John Deere tractor in comparison.

“I want my life back, Mr. Frederick. I want to be able to move the way I used to. I want to pass the department physical so I can go back on patrol. I want to be able to walk without needing a crutch or a cane. I want to be the way I was before I got hurt.” I was asking for the impossible and I knew it. “And please call me Dom.”

He dipped his chin down a little, and the edge of his mouth tilted up in a slight grin. Damn the man was good-looking. I blew out a breath and lifted up my hands to run them over the top of my shorn hair. I was hanging on to my sanity by a thread and my unexpected reaction to the guy that I was hanging every hope I had left on wasn’t helping matters.

“All right, Dom. You can call me Lando. That’s what my friends call me.”

I felt one of my eyebrows shoot up. “Are we going to be friends?”

Don’t miss a Sneak Peek of BUILT, the first full-length novel in the Saints of Denver Series, in the back of LEVELED!

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Jay CrownoverAbout 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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2 responses to “Leveled by Jay Crownover * Release Day * Review * Giveaway

  1. Kristy Petree

    Can’t say as I have (been leveled), but I’m really eager to read this book. I loved the Marked Men, and I always wondered what become of Orlando. Thanks!

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