Dignity by Jay Crownover Review

4.5 Smooches

Synopsis

Looks can be deceiving.
I knew that most people took one look at the ink and the impossibly big and strong body it covered and decided I was a brawler…a bruiser…a beast. However, I was hardwired to be a thinker, not a fighter.
I should have chosen to use my brain and talents to be one of the good guys, a hero, a man with dignity and worth.
I turned my back on dignity and sold my soul to the highest bidder, deciding to dance with the devil, instead.
I couldn’t figure out how to help myself, so there was zero chance I knew how to save someone else.
That someone else was Noe Lee. She was the unkempt, unruly thief who was just as smart as I was and twice as street savvy. She was annoyingly adorable beneath the dirt and grime, and she was in trouble. In way over her head, I told myself it wasn’t my job to keep her from drowning. In the Point, it was sink or swim, and I wasn’t the designated lifeguard on duty.
I shut the door in her face, but now she’s gone…vanished…disappeared without a trace. It took less than a second for me to realize that I wanted her back.
When a woman comes along that melts all the frozen, hard things you’re made of; you’ll do anything you have to, to bring her home.
What you see is not always what you get…and with a man like me, what you get is more than anyone ever bargained for.

Synopsis

I am a Jay Crownover lover. I’ve read and enjoyed every book she has written. I found her years ago when her second book was released and was hooked from the start. Dignity is just another great book in a series of hits from Jay.

Snowden Stark is a hero unlike any other Jay has written. Yes he’s hot and covered in tattoos but he is reserved, nerdy, and so smart it blow your mind. I honestly loved him from the start. Then there is Noe. She is tough, self sufficient, a bit bad but in a Robin Hood sort of way. Individually they were each brash and street tough but together they had a softness I very much enjoyed.

From the start I knew Dignity was something special and every word lived up to that for me. It was easy to get lost in this story and the bad boys from The Point you can help but love.

~miranda