The Return by Jennifer Armentrout

The Return: A Titan Novel by Jennifer L. Armentrout
(Website, Twitter, Facebook, Goodreads)Also by this author: Fall With Me, Storm and Fury
Published by Spencer Hill Press on February 16th 2015
Genres: Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Fantasy, Fiction, Paranormal, Romance
Pages: 344
Format: ARC

The Fates are cackling their bony asses off...It's been a year since Seth made the deal with the gods that pledged his life to them. And so far, the jobs they've given him have been violent and bloody--which is kind of all right with him. But now Apollo has something else in mind for Seth. He's got to play protector while keeping his hands and fingers off, and for someone who really has a problem with restraint, this new assignment might be the most challenging yet. Josie has no idea what this crazy hot guy's deal might be, but it's a good bet that his arrival means the new life she started after leaving home is about to be thrown into an Olympian-sized blender turned up to puree. Either Josie is going insane or a nightmare straight out of ancient myth is gunning for her.But it might be the unlikely attraction simmering between her and the golden-eyed, secret-keeping Seth that may prove to be the most dangerous thing of all.Because history has once again been flipped to repeat. -- Jennifer L. Armentrout

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Shaking my head, I pivoted around and walked down the long hall to my dorm room. As I reached the door, the shiver was at the base of my spine again, dancing its way up until it traveled across my shoulders. My heart turned over heavily and I closed my eyes.

Twice in one day. Oh God. I’d never felt this more than once in any span of several days.

Swallowing hard, I wrapped my fingers around the doorknob, battling the urge to turn and scan the hall, because I knew no one would be there.

Dragging in a deep breath, I opened the door and stepped inside the room. My brows flew up, and I forgot about the feeling as I closed the door behind me.

Erin was sprawled on the floor, palms pressed down on a mat, her spandex-covered behind jutting up toward the sky. She turned her head, peering at me from under her armpit.

Her armpit.

“How in the world do you get your neck to bend like that without killing yourself?” I asked.

“Skills, yo.”

Erin did yoga and meditation religiously, saying it helped merge her yin and yang together or something. She’d once told me she had a hell of a mean streak, and contorting herself into painful-looking positions helped keep “good vibrations” around her. Which was strange, because I’d never seen Erin lose her temper in the two years I’d known her.

Erin unfolded herself from some kind of downward dog or upward pony and grinned at me. “Check under the bed.”

Curious, I dropped my bag and stepped over her legs. Bending down, I lifted the bedspread and my eyes grew to the size of saucers when I spotted the bottle. I snatched it up and clutched it to my chest as I whipped toward her. “José!”

Her grin spread into a smile. “The best boyfriend ever.”

Jaime’s Thoughts
I wasn’t really sure what I was going to think of The Return, but honestly, it was one of the books at the top of my list when we went to BEA. I had to have it because let’s be serious… Jennifer Armentrout is all kinds of amazing.

I was a little worried because … Seth. I didn’t love him in the Covenant series. Don’t get me wrong, I liked him, but he was competing with Aiden so … there’s that. So I was honestly in no hurry to read this until my lovely friend Liza said I had to. And I’ll be honest, once I started reading I couldn’t put it down.

I know I mention the Covenant Series above, and it’s true this is a spin-off of that series, but please note that if you haven’t read that series, you don’t necessarily have to in order to read this book. Armentrout does a great job of recapping where that series left off and this one picks up for someone who wants to dive right into this one.

Where the Covenant series kind of toes the Young Adult/New Adult line, The Return is definitely more on the New Adult side of things. Armentrout does chemistry between her characters amazingly well, and Josie and Seth might be among my favorites… maybe. Don’t make me choose.

Josie is just what you expect in a character from Armentrout… snarky, funny, strong and fierce. Yet she’s also just the right amount of awkward and vulnerable. And Seth… well, he might just be the best thing about this series, and after reading this I’m really happy she decided to expand this world focusing on his story, and what a story it is.

Seth has been tasked with watching over Josie by none other than Apollo… there are reasons for this that I’m not going to spill, but let’s just say I’m really excited to see where Armentrout takes this. Josie has no idea what’s going on, but suddenly her plans for the future are no more and she can’t seem to resist whatever is happening between her and this golden-eyed, hot guy who is determined to keep her safe.

If you’re a fan of Jennifer Armentrout, you’re going to want to grab this one on release day. If you haven’t experienced Armentrout yet, this just might be the perfect book to start with.

About Jennifer L. Armentrout

# 1 New York Times and 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. 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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