5 Smooches
Synopsis
In New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover’s third novel in her sexy, thrilling Welcome to the Point series, a woman’s search for repentance leads her to the one man from her past she can’t forget as they join forces to save their city—and the explosive love neither can live without.
Titus King has always seen his world in black and white. There is a firm right and wrong in his mind, which is why as a teenager he left behind the only family he’d ever known to make a better life for himself. Now a police detective in one of the worst cities in the country, he can’t deny his life has turned into a million different shades of gray.
The new criminal element in The Point has brought vengeance and destruction right to Titus’s front door, and walking the straight and narrow seems far less important now. The difference between right and wrong is nothing compared to keeping those he loves alive. To add to his already strained moral compass, the beautiful and mysterious Reeve Black has made her way back to town. This girl might be as dangerous to Titus as the guy trying to destroy the Point but he can’t walk away because he needs her—in more ways than one.
Reeve knows all about the threat trying to destroy The Point. She knows how ruthless, how vicious, and how cruel this new danger can be… and instead of running away, she wants to help. Reeve knows that she has a lot to repent for and saving the city, plus the hot cop that she hasn’t been able to forget might just be the only way she can finally find some inner peace.
With an entire city poised on the brink of war, Titus and Reeve stand in the crossfire—and it will take two brave souls to fight for the ultimate love.
Review
“Some men wanted to watch the world burn. Titus was a man that wanted to put out all the flames single-handedly from inside the blaze.”
You know when you read and love a book so much that you just don’t know where to start when explaining your thoughts to people because your mind is going a mile a minute and it is impossible to get it all out coherently . . . yeah that is where I am when writing this review. So I apologize in advance if I ramble.
“I wasn’t afraid of him. I was afraid for him.”
The beauty in this series is that the good guys are not purely good and the bad guys find ways for you to love them too. Everyone is human and a mix of good and bad and you will find yourself rooting for characters who in a different book you would be fighting against. We found ourselves hatting Reeve in the first book. She is flawed and the decisions she made had devastating results for characters we loved (it was all covered in Brave so if you are reading this as a standalone do not worry.)
“I can cover it all up, it’s not going to change the fact that you want me and are angry about it.”
The Point is a place we have all been, whether literally of figuratively, it’s the dark place you can’t escape that place that draws you back even when you think you have escaped. In my past I have battled depression and when reading the about The Point it feels like a literal translation of how I felt inside during those times. This series really resonates with me, often in books we have clear lines of right and wrong, good and evil. This series takes those lines and shows you that sometimes you have to blur them just to survive.
“The cop might only need me as bait, but the man . . . the man and the things he kept so tightly controlled inside of him needed so much more.”
From the beginning of this series we have known that Titus was the good guy, the man that attempts to bring justice to the point nad keep those he love safe. He follows the law and was even willing to send his own brother to jail when necessary. So for him to fall for Reeve, the woman who threw Dovie to the wolves to save herself was hard for me at first. But their love was not an instant connection, it was a slow burn filled with redemption, building trust and undeniable chemistry.
“She was going to be my corruption and my vice. She was going to be my addiction and my compulsion and I was still going to fall headlong into her knowing the landing was going to be rough for both of us.”
Reeve’s struggle to give into the easy temptation and the fast justice that is so much at the core of what The Point is and to be the kind of woman that lawful and honorable Titus deserves is the beauty of the book. She is the ying to Titus’ yang and shows him that sometimes the world is grey and people cannot be put into the black and white molds he has formed. Titus for his part, is himself around Reeve. Passionate, protective he shows her parts of himself that no one else has seen. I loved their balance and their struggle. The entire story was emotional and suspenseful!
“So much of Titus was now woven into the fabric of who I was and who I knew I deserved to be.”
This is a series that is not to be missed. Each book surprises me and leaves me desperate for the next and will be counting days until I get Nassirs story!
~miranda
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