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New Release Review and Giveaway! FIRE IN YOU by Jennifer L. Armentrout (writing as J. Lynn–Wait for You #6, with a giveaway!)

Some are born with fire in them.

✮✮✮SECOND CHANCES, HOPE, & RED-HOT CHEMISTRY…FIRE IN YOU, the final book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Wait For You World is here! Don’t miss Brock and Jillian’s passionate and richly moving story in this standalone contemporary romance! And check out each stop on the FIRE IN YOU Review & Excerpt Tour taking place November 29-December 10!✮✮✮

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About FIRE IN YOU:

From the # 1 New York Times and International bestselling author comes a richly moving story about heartbreak and guilt, second chances and hope. Full of familiar, fan-favorite characters and no two people more deserving of a happy ending, Fire In You will burn bright beyond the last page…

Jillian Lima’s whole world was destroyed in a span of a few hours. The same night her childhood love, Brock ‘the Beast’ Mitchell, broke her heart, her life was irrevocably altered by the hand of a stranger with a gun. It takes six years to slowly glue together the shattered pieces of her life, but Jillian is finally ready to stop existing in a past full of pain and regret. She takes a job at her father’s martial arts Academy and she’s going out on her first date since a failed relationship that was more yuck than yum. Jillian is determined to start living.

She just never expected Brock to be a part of her life again. But he’s firmly back in her life before she knows it, and not only is he older, he’s impossibly more handsome, more teasing and more everything. And when he sees Jillian, he’s no longer capable of thinking of her as the little girl who was his shadow growing up or the daughter of the man who gave him a second chance at life. He sees the woman who’d always been there for him, the one person who believed in him no matter what.

Brock knows she’s the one he should’ve made his, and what begins as a tentative friendship quickly turns to red-hot chemistry that sparks a flame that burns brighter than lust. Falling for Brock again risks more than her heart, because when the sorrow-filled and guilt-ridden past resurfaces, and a web of lies threatens to rip them apart, the fallout could lay waste to everything they’ve fought to build together, and destroy the dreams of those they care most about.

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Excerpt:

“Okay. This conversation has gone way off track,” I said.

“Those are the best kind of conversations.” He reached behind him and curled his large hand around the mug.

I ignored the comment and refocused. “The reason why I’m in your office is because I wanted to see you—”

“It’s about time you admit that,” he replied smoothly, and those eyes of his, dark and endless, took on a lazy quality that had my pulse once again pounding all over the place. “Have I told you lately how much I like it when you wear your hair down?”

“No,” I whispered.

“I do. You have beautiful hair.” His jaw tightened. “Never noticed that before. You always had it pulled up, didn’t you?”

“Um.”

“Yeah, that’s right. Always pulled up.” With one hand still wrapped around the coffee cup, he picked up a piece of my hair, running his fingers along the strand. His voice deepened when he said, “You’ve always been a pretty girl. I know I’ve said that to you before, but you’ve become such a beautiful woman.”

I wanted to laugh, to ask him if he’d been drinking this morning, but my heart was beating too fast. I had no idea how to process what he was doing and saying. Brock had told me I was beautiful before, but he’d always said it back then in a way that it was just a passing compliment, one tossed out and not really meaning anything. Hearing it come from his mouth now was nothing like before.

Lifting my gaze once more to his, I found that I was unable to look away. Brock was one hundred percent a grown man now and he never, ever had looked at me like he did in this moment, like he was…he was starving, and I didn’t understand how he could be staring at me like that. It didn’t make sense, not in the world we lived in.

Brock let go of my hair and his fingers brushed over the curve of my cheek. My skin tingled from where his fingers had touched, like an electrical jolt to my system. His gaze slipped from mine, coasting and lingering over my mouth before going even lower, and a sweet, heady flush of heat spread. Under the sweater, I could feel my nipples hardening.

Slowly, torturously, he dragged his gaze back up to mine. A shadow passed over his striking face and he swallowed once more, then lowered his chin. “Jillian, I—”

“Am I interrupting?”

I jumped at the sound of an unfamiliar female voice. A flicker of surprise skated over Brock’s face and then his jaw hardened. I glanced over my shoulder, and nearly fell out of my chair as I whipped back around, my eyes wide.

It was the fiancée.

Kristen Morgan.

Oh my God.

 

Review:

So. Good.

This is the first book in J. Lynn’s Wait for You series that I’ve read (why? I have no idea, and zero excuses. Every single one is on my TBR) but it worked just fine as a standalone. I’m pretty sure that most if not all of the other series characters made appearances here, so if you’ve read the others, it’ll feel link coming home for Thanksgiving.

Which Jillian and Brock actually did at one point, so… 😉

Jillian’s been in love with Brock since she was eight and he was fourteen, something that just about everyone around them knew but didn’t really discuss. She’s been his shadow, his best friend, forever–until they weren’t any more. But now six years have passed, and Jillian’s physically healed from the horrible experience that helped to tear them apart. She’s taking a job in the family business, and working with Brock. She can do this. Can’t she?

I loved watching Jillian as she slowly but surely took her life back into her own hands, and witnessing as Brock did what he could do to get her trust back. These two are so good together, and though they move pretty slowly here, you can see that it’s absolutely going to be worth it in the end.

And it totally is 🙂

Now, I’ve got a backlist to plow through…

Rating: 4 stars / A-

I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.


About Jennifer L. Armentrout:jla_author-photo

# 1 New York Times and # 1 International 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, 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. Jennifer has won numerous awards, including the 2013 Reviewers Choice Award for Wait for You, the 2015 Editor’s Pick for Fall With Me, and the 2014/2015 Moerser-Jugendbuch- Jury award for Obsidian. Her young adult romantic suspense novel DON’T LOOK BACK was a 2014 nominated Best in Young Adult Fiction by YALSA.

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

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FIRE IN YOU Review & Excerpt Tour

November 29

Bookalicious Babes-Review & Excerpt
Fiction Fangirls-Review & Excerpt
Reading is my Bliss-Review & Excerpt
Shayna Renee’s Spicy Reads-Review & Excerpt
Reviews by Tammy and Kim-Review & Excerpt
Movies, Shows & Books-Excerpt
Once Upon a Book Blog-Review

November 30

JoJo The Bookaholic-Review & Excerpt
Little Read Riding Hood-Review & Excerpt
Reviews from the Heart-Review & Excerpt
Kimmy Loves to Read-Excerpt
Books, Dreams, Life-Excerpt
The Book Avenue-Excerpt
Obsessive Book Nerd-Review

December 1

Three Girls and a Book Obsession-Review & Excerpt
WTF Are You Reading-Review & Excerpt
Smut Book Junkie Reviews-Review & Excerpt
The Book Disciple-Review & Excerpt
Corrie the Book, Crazed Girl-Excerpt
Vera is Reading-Excerpt
Read More Sleep Less-Review

December 2

Beneath the Covers Blog-Excerpt
Book Bite Reviews-Excerpt
Words We Love By-Review & Excerpt
Books Need TLC-Review
Girl Plus Books-Review
What is that Book About-Excerpt

December 3

Zili in the Sky-Review & Excerpt
Brittany’s Book Blog-Excerpt
Nicole’s Book Musings-Excerpt
Rachel’s Book Reviews-Review
Reading Between the Wines Book Club-Excerpt

December 4

Adventures in Writing-Excerpt
Dog Eared Daydreams-Review
SnoopyDoo’s Book Reviews-Excerpt
Nerdy Dirty & Flirty-Review & Excerpt
Angie and Jessica’s Dreamy Reads-Review

December 5

Literary Misfit-Review & Excerpt
Read-Love-Blog-Review & Excerpt
Book Babes Unite-Review
Romance Book Nerd-Excerpt
Taylors Pages-Review
She Hearts Books-Review

December 6

Becky on Books-Review & Excerpt
Pink Lace & Silver Buckles Book Blog-Review & Excerpt
Captain Reads A Lot-Excerpt
My Nook, Books & More-Excerpt
PBC-Review & Excerpt

December 7

Bibliobelles-Review & Excerpt
KT Book Reviews-Excerpt
Jen’s Reading Obsession-Excerpt
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Book Boyfriend’s-Review
Literary Dust-Review

December 8

Book Starlets-Review & Excerpt
V’s Reads-Review & Excerpt
BFD Book Blog-Review & Excerpt
Ashleyz Wonderland-Excerpt

December 9

Wicked Babes Blog Review-Review & Excerpt
Books, Coffee & Passion-Excerpt
Chapter by Chapter-Review & Excerpt
Fictional Rendezvous Book Blog-Excerpt

December 10

Blushing Babes Are Up All Night-Review & Excerpt
Lina’s Reviews: A Book Blog-Review
Hello Beautiful Book Blog-Review & Excerpt
Ceres Books World-Review

 

 

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