Review Blitz and Excerpt-Recovered by Jay Crownover

About Jay Crownover: Jay Crownover is the international and multiple New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men Series, The Saints of Denver Series, the Point Series, the Breaking Point Series, and the Getaway Series. Her books can be found translated in many different languages all around the world. She is a tattooed, crazy haired Colorado native who lives at the base of the Rockies with her awesome dogs. This is where she can frequently be found enjoying a cold beer and Taco Tuesdays. Jay is a self-declared music snob and outspoken book lover who is always looking for her next adventure, between the pages and on the road.

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CABLE
I knew I was a mess.
Unhinged and hanging on the precipice of becoming someone who was beyond any kind of redemption. I teetered on the brink of making bad choices every moment I was awake, but somehow, some way, I always managed to keep myself from going completely over. It was the look in Affton’s eyes when I came out of my epic freak-out that had me keep one foot on the line and one foot behind it. There was genuine concern for me in those pretty, almost purple eyes. There was worry and want she tried to hide in that gaze, as well. She tried to hate me, but she was too good of a person, too compassionate and empathetic to follow through on those emotions. She cared, and it scared the holy fuck out of me.
I had no clue what to do with these new feelings. I was sure I didn’t want her to give a crap about me. I had no idea how to navigate genuine, sincere compassion. I was inexperienced in dealing with emotion that wasn’t leveraged or manipulated. I was unsettled and acutely aware of her.
Every breath she took, I swore I could hear.
Every time she blinked, those eyes that saw far too much and witnessed as I ducked and dodged her. I watched them grow dark blue, blooming like a bruise as she tried to hide the way my evasion hurt her.
Every time I sidestepped and ignored her, I swore I could feel the way her blood billed, and her aggravation made her warm from head to toe. I got hard at the way she flushed a pretty pink when I pissed her off, but I wasn’t going out of my way to tell her that. I wasn’t going out of my way to tell her anything.

Five Star Review by Brittany

I really enjoyed this book. It felt kind of personal, because my mother has struggled with addiction almost her whole life. While she hasn't done drugs, that I know of, she has struggled with alcoholism ever since she was a teenager. I remember what it was like whenever she'd get blackout drunk, and it's not pretty and I hated the times that I witnessed her submit to addiction. She went to AA years ago, got sober and stayed sober for close to eight years, then relapsed. Months after that relapse, she went back to AA and got sober for five years. I went to the meeting where she received her five year chip. Then she relapsed again, and this time it was so bad that she had to go into detox and I had to take care of my younger brother that whole weekend, and that weekend that my mom was in detox, my younger sister got in a car wreck and I had to deal with that as well. She's been sober since then, so maybe about a year or so. Things are good, let's hope it stays that way.

I know that you didn't want to read my whole life story, but I wanted to really get across how I connected with this book. I feel that I could be Affton, because I've had to watch my mom to make sure she didn't fall off the wagon. I get it. I totally, one hundred percent, get it.

I absolutely loved Cable. And the fact that he's loosely based off of a real person that Jay Crownover knew and associated with makes it even better. I would imagine what it would be like if this was happening in real life.

This story was sweet and sexy, full of love and hate, and a true story of what it's like to be in recovery. I enjoyed being able to read things from Caleb's point of view, because we got to hear what it's like to be an addict that wants so hard to recover, but there's temptation and things that make him yearn to use again.

The only negative thing I have to say is that sometimes it felt like the author was repeating things for the sake of word count. I also felt at times that the descriptions of things went too long and I would get bored and space out, reading the same thing over and over again.

If you're an addict or know someone that is in recovery or struggling to recover, I recommend this book. You will connect with it personally and it will stick with you forever.

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Review Blitz and Excerpt-Recovered by Jay Crownover

The road to recovery is full of twists and turns no matter who is in the driver’s seat.

From New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Jay Crownover comes a standalone romance with a hero sure to keep readers up long into the night. Check out the review below and pick up your copy of RECOVERED for just $.99 through release week only!

It was hate at first sight......

Affton

I hated Cable James McCaffrey.

He was entitled, spoiled, a user…and an addict.

He was out of control and didn’t bother trying to hide it.

He had everything anyone could want but still seemed miserable and lost.

Cable

I was obsessed with Affton Reed.

She was rigid, uptight, and no fun. There was something about her innate goodness that called to me.

She acted like she was above all the normal faults and failures that clung to the rest of us like the scent of smoke after a fire.

I was infatuated with her, but that didn’t stop me from acting like she didn’t exist.

In the scorching heat of summer, Affton taught me that there is always a way back from the brink of despair. She showed me that the trick to having it all was realizing that it was already there, in my hands. All I had to do was hold onto it.