Review: Be With Me By Jennifer Armentrout Plus A Giveaway and Excerpt!

BE WITH ME

By: Jennifer Armentrout

Publication Date: February 4, 2014

SUMMARY

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Wait for You

Do Teresa and Jase have a real shot at getting together or will life get in the way?

Teresa Hamilton is having a rough year—she’s in love with her big brother’s best friend, but he hasn’t spoken to her since they shared a truly amazing, mind-blowing, life-changing kiss. Then she got out of a terrible relationship. Now an injury is threatening to end her dance career for good. It’s time for plan B: college. And maybe she’ll have a chance to convince Jase that what they have together is real.

Jase Winstead has a huge secret that he’s not telling anyone—especially not his best friend’s incredibly beautiful sister. Even though he and Teresa shared the hottest kiss of his life, he knows that his responsibilities must take priority. He certainly doesn’t have time for a relationship. But it doesn’t help that all he can think about is kissing the one girl who could ruin everything for him.

As they’re thrown together more and more, Jase and Teresa can’t keep denying their feelings for each other. But a familiar danger looms and tragedy strikes. As the campus recovers, the star-crossed couple must decide what they’re willing to risk to be together and what they’re willing to lose if they’re not. . . .

ABOUT JENNIFER

# 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.

Read An Excerpt

“You got a visitor, Tess.” He rested his chin atop my head, which caused my pulse to try

to outrun my heart. “Two of them to be exact.”

“Okay.”

There was a pause. “Are your eyes closed?”

“No.”

His chin slid off my head and then his chest rumbled as he laughed. “Your eyes are

closed.” He laughed again. “Open them up.”

Cursing under my breath, I pried one eye open and then jerked against him. His arm

tightened. “Oh wow …”

The black-and-white horse was the closest, standing mere feet away from me. The brown

one wasn’t too far, shaking its head and making soft snorts. My eyes were wide as they bounced

between the two creatures. “They’re not carnivorous, right? Because at their size, they could eat

me.”

Jase laughed deeply as his hand shifted up, resting in the center of my stomach, just

below my breasts. “Horses do not eat people, you little idiot.”

I started, eyes narrowing. “There’s always a first.”

The lips pulled back on the black-and-white horse as if it was smirking at me.

“This one right here? Mr. Friendly? Jack calls him Bubba One,” he said in a quiet,

calming voice. But air hitched in my throat when his thumb moved in a slow circle over the thin

material of my tank top, hitting against the wire in my bra. “And the brown one is Bubba Two.”

Mouth dry, I wetted my lips. “That’s good for remembering names.”

He chuckled as his pinkie and forefinger started to move up and down, reaching my belly

button and then sliding back up. It was almost as if he was unaware of what he was doing, or the

electrifying response the tiny motions were dragging out of me. “I think so too, but his real name

is Lightning.”

Said horse shook his head, tossing the shaggy mane.

“Lightning seems to be a more suitable name,” I admitted, relaxing as the seconds

passed. Maybe that was his intention. Distract me with the soft, almost innocent touches. It was

working. “What about Bubba Two?

“Ah, the one who is staring at the pail like it’s the holy mecca of grain?” His cheek

grazed mine as I laughed. “That’s Thunder. And we’re going to feed them. Together.”

The friction his fingers created with my shirt sent tiny shivers up and down my back.

“With our hands?”

His answering laugh tipped the corners of my lips up. “Yes. With our hands.”

“After checking out the choppers on them, I’m not so sure about that.”

“You’ll be okay.” He slid his hand off my stomach and wrapped it around my wrist.

Slowly, he lifted my hand out in front of me. “Hold still.”

My heart lurched. “Jase—”

Lightning trotted forward and pressed his wet nose against my hand. I cringed, waiting

for him to eat my poor fingers. The horse didn’t. Nope. It nudged my hand as it whinnied softly.

He guided my hand up over Lightning’s jaw, all the way to the pointy, twitchy ears.

“See?” he murmured. “That’s not too bad, is it?”

I shook my head as my fingers curled along the soft coat. Lightning seemed to anticipate

the direction of the petting, pressing his long head against my hand as my fingers tangled in his

mane. It wasn’t bad at all.

Jase shifted behind me, and in an instant all thoughts of the horses evaporated. His hips

lined up against my backside, and I bit down on my lower lip as I focused on the white splotch

covering Lightning’s muzzle.

I could feel him—feel Jase. And there was absolutely no doubt in my mind that he was

affected by how close we were standing. That knowledge and the hard length of him left me

dizzy, just like it had done that Saturday night. An all too warm flush spread down my neck. In

the back of my head, I was rationalizing his physical reaction. He was a guy. Our bodies were pressed

together. If a wind blew on a guy’s private area, they got hard. So I should just ignore it,

but my body was so not on board with my head. My body was operating on a different playing

field. An ache centered low in my stomach. A sharp and sweet yearning raced through my veins.

“Not so scary, right?” His voice was deeper, richer. “They’re like dogs. Well, like a dog

that can carry around two hundred pounds, if not more.” Hand sliding off mine, he stepped back,

and the sudden emptiness of his body was like a cold shock. “Trust me.”

Jaime’s Thoughts

Be with Me by J. Lynn
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Jennifer Armentrout writes some of the best book boys out there. This is just a fact of life, and Be With Me is no exception to this fact.

Be With Me features some characters we met in Wait For you… Cam’s little sister, Teresa and his best friend Jase. We even get bits and pieces of what’s going on with Cam and Avery’s lives in case you’re missing them.

After her last train wreck of a relationship, Teresa hasn’t really put any focus into her personal life, instead concentrating on dance and her future plans, but an injury side-tracks her and she finds herself attending the same college as Cam pursing her Plan B… but only until her knee is healed and she can get back to dancing. She doesn’t count on the awkwardness between her and Cam’s best Friend Jase after an amazing shared kiss… but it’s there none-the-less, and Jase isn’t making things easy for them either.

Jase has a reputation at school, but he’s also got some secrets that only a select few know about. Something that has caused confusion and heartbreak for him… something that has kept him from revealing his true feelings for his best friends sister.

I’m just going to get this out in the open. Jase does stupid boy things that made me incredibly mad. However, I found it so incredibly hard to hate him for doing these stupid boy things. The situation he is in is somewhat heartbreaking and complicated so a lot of it makes sense. What frustrated me, were the mixed signals he continued to send Teresa time and time again. But make no mistake, he had his amazingly swoony moments.

I really loved Teresa as a character as well. She’s smart, and after her last relationship she doesn’t really put up with shit and she certainly doesn’t put up with shit from her roommate’s asshole boyfriend, no matter what kind of trouble it might get her into.

Enter the drama. There are a few different things happening here.

First, the Jase drama… I wasn’t surprised in the least by what is revealed. I’m not entirely sure if this was supposed to be a surprise for readers or not, but I figured it out pretty early on, which means I’m sure you will too.

Next, the roommate drama. It was crazy I’m not even going to lie about it, and that’s all you’re going to get out of me on it.

Armentrout manages once again to get me invested in these flawed characters, make me care about them and swoon over them and hope and hope and hope they get their happily ever after. With an intriguing, wonderfully paced story I think you’ll love Be With Me just as much as Wait For You… if not more.

I’m definitely looking forward to more from Armentrout, especially Ollie and Britt’s book coming in 2014.

Thank you to Harpercollins and Edelweiss for the advance copy in exchange for my honest thoughts.

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