Rule (A Marked Men Novel #1)
Jay Crownover
New Adult
May 7th, 2013
Publisher: William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins
~ Synopsis ~
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.
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
~ Our Review ~
4.5 Star Review by Annie
“It’s always been you even when I didn’t want it to be, even when it broke my heart over and over again. It’s just always been you.”
Rule Archer is the definition of a bad boy; he is a pierced womanizing tattoo god, who makes no excuse for his behavior and lifestyle. He lives his life the way he wants to and if you don’t like it that is your problem. After the tragic death of his twin brother, Remy, his family begins to fall apart. His parents hate his appearance, his life choices and anything else they can think of. With his older brother being deployed the only buffer in the family is his twin brother’s friend, Shaw Landon. Rule has never seen Shaw as anything but his twin brother’s girl and has never even given her a second thought that is until one night changes everything.
Shaw Landon comes from a rich family, who has her life planned out for her. Her parents want her to live the American dream; be rich, successful, married, have 2.5 kids, and live in a house with a white picket fence. The problem with that is Shaw wants the one thing she has been obsessing over for the past 7 years, Rule Archer. The problem is how can she make Rule see her for who she really is, without betraying the secret Remy took to his grave.
I adored Shaw and fell in love with Rule. There is just something about a man with tattoos that just does it for me. This story drew me in and would not let me go. I could not put it down, and days after I read it I was still thinking about it.
Jet (A Marked Men Novel #2)
Jay Crownover
New Adult
May 28, 2013
Publisher: William Morrow an imprint of HarperCollins
~ Synopsis ~
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?
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?
~ Our Review ~
4.5 Star Review by Annie
4.5 Star Review by Annie
“Love isn’t perfect. It’s hard work and sometimes it’s more effort to be in love than it is to just run away. If you keep looking for perfect, the real thing is going to pass right by you.”
Jay Crownover has given us another sexy book to the Marked Men series. I couldn’t put it down and when I was forced to take a break I couldn’t get the characters and the story out of my head. This book was AH-MAZING!
Jet Keller is the hot lead singer of a local rock band, every guy wants to be him and every girl wants to be with him. In search of the girl who is the perfect 10 he discovers that the girl for him has always been right next to him, well technically across the hall, all along.
“Sometimes, things need to change, because there just isn’t any way for them to stay the same.”When Ayden Cross moved to Denver she left a hopeless life behind, and created a new one. The one thing she want more than anything is her roommate Jet, but he brings out the old Ayden and she can’t allow that. When Ayden learns that her past isn’t where she thought it was, she turns to her friends and the boy she loves.
“You already lit the fuse, Ayd. You better be ready to deal with the boom that follows."
I loved, and I mean LOVED, Rule so when Jay Crownover announced Jet I was excited. I was even more excited when I started the book, because Jet did not let me down. It was full of hot guys with tattoos and piercings, and the girls who love them.
First off I am just going to say that Jet is probably one of my new favorite rockers, he can stand his own against some of the greatest book band boys. Jet just exudes sex appeal and makes me blush just thinking about him and his “piercings”.
This book allowed us to get to know Ayden and Jet better, but it also gave us insight to the other characters we have grown to love, including Rule and Shaw.
I give this book a 4.5 stars. Why am I not giving it 5 stars? Ayden. I loved her character and she was somewhat relatable. She was struggling with who she used to be, and who she is now. The only problem is she frustrated the crap out of me. I can only take so much back and forth, and then she repeated the same thing over and over again. It feels like you are stuck in a continuous loop with Ayden. Great job Jay Crownover I can’t wait until we get book three!!!!!
~ About The Author ~Jay Crownover is the best-selling author of Rule. Like the characters in her Marked Men series, 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 and that make the reader feel something. She lives in Colorado with her three dogs.
