Blog Tour and Review: Stay With Me by J. Lynn

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Keep calm everyone as we try to contain our fangirl excitement for this incredible book and awesome tour! Jennifer L Armentrout has wowed us again and we cannot seem to stop smiling! Check out her latest book, Stay With Me, the third installment of the Wait For You Saga! We have a teaser and Tina’s Thoughts! Check it out and let the countdown begin! This book is live on September 23, 2014.

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wait for You and Be with Me comes a daring tale that pushes boundaries . . .

At 21, Calla hasn’t done a lot of things. She’s never been kissed, never seen the ocean, never gone to an amusement park. But growing up, she witnessed some things no child ever should.   She still carries the physical and emotional scars of living with a strung-out mother, Mona—secrets she keeps from everyone, including her close circle of college friends.

But the safe cocoon Calla has carefully built is shattered when she discovers her mom has stolen her college money and run up a huge credit card debt in her name. Now, Calla has to go back to the small town she thought she’d left behind and clean up her mom’s mess again. Of course, when she arrives at her mother’s bar, Mona is nowhere to be found. Instead, six feet of hotness named Jackson James is pouring drinks and keeping the place humming.

Sexy and intense, Jax is in Calla’s business from the moment they meet, giving her a job and helping her search for Mona. And the way he looks at her makes it clear he wants to get horizontal . . . and maybe something more. Before Calla can let him get close, though, she’s got to deal with the pain of the past—and some very bad guys out to mess her up if she doesn’t give them her mom.

Tina's Thoughts... A review for you

Look out world. We have another incredible JLA book to salivate over. But who would have expected anything less?? This book was INCREDIBLE. I feel sacrilege saying it but it is my favorite of the entire saga. I still love Cam, Jace, Avery and Theresa.  It couples the perfect amount of romance, heartfelt moments, sexiness and angst that truly embodies the New Adult genre. It just seemed like a deeper and more powerful book and I cannot wait to read it again. My only regret is that I will not be able to read it for the first time again. It blew me away and I cannot wait for the world to read it!

Now time to rave about some incredible characters. Calla is one of the best written characters I have ever had the pleasure of reading. She is someone who has literally been through hell and back, yet she conquers life one step at a time. Her character and determination are so profound. Life continues to deal her blow after blow yet she stands strong and moves on. Not to say that she is callus. This girl feels deeply the wounds of her life yet she chooses to embrace the world around her. Her healing and inner transformation made me so emotional at times. She wants to leave the past behind and move on, something that causes her to make poor choices in the lies of her past, yet she desires for people to see her as who she is and not where she came from. Then there is Jax. Good lawd, that boy! He is smart, sexy, funny, flirty and oh so wrong for her (in Calla’s opinion, not mine), yet oh so perfect, exactly what she needs. He is an enigma and a puzzle that keeps Calla guessing! He is the best protector and friend she could ever want or need.

One lie Calla lives with daily is that her mother is dead. This is anything from the truth. Her mother is ruining Calla’s life from afar and Calla decides to take matters into her own hands by going home for the summer and dealing with her mother and past. Nothing is as it seems when she returns home and her mom is missing. Instead, she meets Jax, the incredible sweet, hot and flirtatious bartender at her mother’s bar. Things get a dicey when her mother’s “friends” come looking for her and the truth of the danger and trouble that her mother is in causes danger and struggle for Calla by default. So naturally, Jax takes his role as protector very seriously, delving into so much more than they would have thought. Their friendship becomes so much more. Their relationship is one of the best I have ever seen written in the pages of a New Adult novel.

This book is the perfect recipe of love, romance and suspense. I really enjoyed the suspense factor. The drama was so well played out. You never truly understood who was what and where things were going but, like Calla, we were able to focus on what was happening at hand and fall for sweet Jax. Their banter was incredible. I love how JLA’s characters have a real authentic quality that leaps off the page, one that cannot be ignored. There is no way you could not love this book! We see some of the favorites from the other books in the saga, giving us insight into what is happening with their lives. I loved Calla’s internal dialogue about the people in her life, and literally laughed out loud when she starts diving into the Hot Buy Brigade. There are so many incredible things I could ramble on about but let’s just say you need to read this book! It is probably my favorite New Adult book that JLA has written. You will not be dissapointed!

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Want to know where you can buy Stay With Me? It is available at the retailers listed below! Pre-order today and get ready to read this fabulous story on September 23!

Amazon ** Barnes and Noble ** iTunes ** Kobo ** GooglePlay

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Author-photo# 1 NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki.

Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math.

Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Spencer Hill Press, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. Her book Obsidian has been optioned for a major motion picture and her Covenant Series has been optioned for TV.

She also writes adult and New Adult romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.

For more of what Jennifer is up to, check out her social media sites!

Website ** Facebook ** Twitter ** J. Lynn Goodreads ** Jennifer L. Armentrout Goodreads

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