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๐๐จ๐ง ๐จ๐ ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ง by NY Times & USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover is LIVE!!!
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What to expect:
✔️Crossover Novel
✔️Runaway Heroine
✔️Road Trip/ Forced Proximity
✔️Anti- Hero
✔️Good Girl Gone Bad
✔️Journey of Self-Discovery
Blurb:
Heavy is the head that inherits the crown.
The only thing on Daire Archer’s mind when she pulled a disappearing act on Christmas was proving she
was worthy of being her father's daughter. She was born an Archer, which was a blessing and a curse,
and Daire was determined to show everyone she deserved to carry the legacy that came with her name.
There is power in a name, and being an Archer meant Daire needed to do better, to be better. At least,
that’s what she thought she needed, until a boy from nowhere—with a name that meant nothing—showed
her that she was already pretty great just the way she was.
Campbell has always rejected everything concerning his maniacal father and his troubled past. When he
left Nowhere, he was certain he wanted a nice, quiet life free from the only things he'd ever known:
violence and bloodshed. He thought he needed to be a better man. He wondered if there was a kinder,
gentler version of himself under his thick armor of scars and tattoos.
It wasn't until he started chasing Daire Archer all over hell and back that Campbell realized he needed to
be a man who was better at being bad than everyone else in his troubled world.
Because now, he had a problematic princess to protect. One with an uncanny ability for finding trouble.
Where Daire is concerned, being a good guy isn't necessary.
Trinette Dungee's 4 Star Review
Jay Crownover’s latest book combines her Marked Men and The Point series. She’s combined her most lovable series with her darkest series and boy did it work!! This book gives you the pairing of Daire Archer and Campbell. Daire comes from a privileged background, and Campbell comes from literally nothing. While they feel they absolutely nothing in common, they have more than they could have imagined.
There was a lot, and I mean A LOT to unpack in this book. I barely know where or how to start. The easiest thing to do is say AMAZING storyline and give some background on the characters.
Still struggling to come to terms with being responsible for the accident that changed her brother Ry’s life, Daire decides to escape her life to “find out who she is”; but as usual, she makes and impulsive decision that doesn’t have the best outcome. Having basically lived a sheltered life, Daire’s more than a little naรฏve to how the real world actually works. While she wants to be looked at and treated like an adult, she’s notorious for making childish decisions. Which is the case when she decides to run away, on Christmas Eve, in the middle of a Denver snowstorm and finds herself stranded. The last person she expects to be her savior is Campbell; especially when there is no love lost between the two of them. Because of her impulsiveness, and childish behaviors I wasn’t a huge fan of Daire’s in the beginning, but as time went on, I started to understand her behavior. In a nutshell, aside from dealing with some mental health issues, Daire was also struggling with the changes that were happening in her family dynamic. Specifically, her brother’s ability to move on with his life after tragedy.
I was pushing my brother away because I didn’t know how to live without him. I didn’t know how to adjust to not being as important to him as he was to me.
Daire’s greatest quality is her love for her family, and the big heart she has that’s always in the right place but not used with the best decisions.
I wasn’t ever going to be the hero who went out of his way to save the princess. Just like Benny said, while I’d always wanted to be one, I never quite managed to pull it off. I was a pretty terrible guy through and through, and I could corrupt the princess, that was a mission I would never fail.
But was he really? You know the saying “Sometimes good people do bad things”? Well, that’s how I saw Campbell. It’s very clichรฉ-ish, but the best way to describe Campbell is, mysterious. He truly is. Even Daire admits the amount of time she’s known him, she doesn’t know if Campbell is his first name or last name. Turns out, neither does he. At first glance he’s intimidating and dark, but the more you get to know him, you see his heart is huge. But it’s only reserved for a select few people. This is a guy who basically grew up in the armpit of hell. His mother died when he was young, and he suspects his dirtbag father murdered her. His main objective is to protect his younger siblings and keep them as far away from his father as possible. Every horrible thing he’s ever done, and he’s done some horrible things, was to keep them save and to survive. Unlike Daire, I was a fan of Campbell’s from the door.
I couldn’t even tell Daire how old I was if she asked. My father wasn’t exactly keen on birthdays. If I had to guess, I was somewhere around twenty -three or twenty-four, but who knew.
My heart broke for Campbell at that moment. Not only was a mystery to everyone else, but he was also a mystery to himself as well.
So, Campbell is tasked with not only rescuing Daire during the snowstorm, but taking her where ever she was trying to go, and getting her to realize she needed to go home. During the travels the two get to see other sides of one another and gain better perspectives on what makes them tick. Of course, there’s that good ole sexual tension and the inevitable realization that they actually care for each other. The slow burn in this book works very well in this book. What I really liked about the two characters coming together was the protectiveness they developed for each other. I also appreciated while there was happy ending so to speak, it wasn’t wrapped in a nice, neat bow. These were two very flawed individuals in the beginning of this book, and they were still flawed in the end.
I was very nervous going into this book because it had been a while since I’d read each series so I wasn’t sure I would remember who was who, because there were a lot of returning characters; but the storyline and the placement of characters came back to me immediately. Although this is considered a standalone, I would definitely recommend reading each series to get a deeper understanding of Daire and Campbell. There is is a tree at the beginning to help you navigate the characters, and at the end a list of what books have what characters.
After reading this latest book, I’m very tempted to do rereads of the previous books (or at least listen to the audiobooks), and I’m not really one to reread.
