What am I Reading??

Hey guys!

I’m currently reading Get Lucky: A YA Anthology by various authors (including two of my favorites, Ginger Scott, Cassie Mae, and Kelly Oram!), The Hard Count by Ginger Scott, and These Things About Us by Laura Beege.

So far I’ve only read the first story in this anthology, and it was really good.  The first story centers on MacKenzie, or Mac as her friends call her.  Mac doesn’t have a happy home life, but is blessed with a great surrogate family because of her friendship with Emma and Jesse, Emma’s attractive, but unattainable older brother.  Mac is something of a tennis fiend and is well renowned in their area, as is Jesse.

Mac’s mom is a homewrecker.  She likes to keep up appearances though so she always acts like she loves Mac so much, but Mac knows it’s just an act.  Her mom is on to what is soon to be husband number five. . . who is still waiting for his divorce to finalize.

Mac has always had feelings for Jesse, but because she doesn’t want to mess up her relationship with the rest of his family should he not return her feelings, or if something went wrong, she’s been hiding them.   One night she sneaks away with from a party Jesse has thrown to attend a party that for a rival school that has been thrown by the daughter of her mother’s newest conquest.  Things at the party go awry when the cops are called, and Jesse ends up coming to get Mac, at which point feelings are shared.

I really liked this first story, and I hope that I like the others just as much!  I have really high hopes for the Ginger Scott, Cassie Mae, and Kelly Oram stories!

I haven’t gotten past the first chapter of The Hard Count yet, but I plan to remedy that soon.  In the first chapter, we meet Nico, who at this point is ten.  Nico lives in the rough part of town.  His brother joined a gang in order to gain protection for their family after shots were fired through their living room window into a wall.  Nico’s best friend moves away, and isn’t allowed to come visit him on the weeks when Nico is unable to visit.  His mom wants to move away, too, but he doesn’t want to go; he would rather stay in the place that he loves, even though the environment is dangerous.  Nico is being approached by the man that recruited his brother, but Nico doesn’t want any part of it.

So far, this book reminds me of Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles, but I’m sure it won’t for long.  I’m excited to get to read more of this book!

I received These Things About Us from the author in exchange from an honest review.  I honestly feel like a huge butt that it has taken me this long to get around to reading it.

I’m over half way into the story and I still don’t like the love interest, Trace, and I’m not sure how I’m going to end up liking him, because so far he seems like a bipolar, poop canoe.

This story is about Antonia ‘Tony,’ searching for her mother in London.  She’s tried to reinvent herself from the person she used to be, but it doesn’t seem to be sticking.  One night, she stumbles upon a pub that thankfully has a phone book and pay phone.  The bartender, Alex, takes mercy on her and providers her with food and drink on the house while she waits for the phone to free up.  The other bartender, Trace, looks at her, gags, and leaves.  With her feelings bruised, she ends up at the payphone trying to contact her mother, but none of the numbers she calls belong to her mother, or the person at that number doesn’t answer the phone.  In poor spirits, she goes back to her food preparing to leave and find a place to stay, when conveniently enough another man, Wes, makes an appearance, and after some talking he is able to procure a room for her as long as she’ll work in the pub.

Trace and Wes are brothers and they couldn’t be more different.  Where Wes is friendly and calm, Trace is antisocial and has a short fuse.  Tony cannot stand Trace or his string of loud, sexual partners that keep her up all night with their screaming.  The longer she searches unsuccessfully for her mother, the closer she gets to Wes, and the more drawn she is to Trace.  She starts to uncover some humanity in Trace, and she recognizes things in him that she also sees in herself.

So far, the book is okay.  This isn’t my favorite book of all time, and like I said before, I’m not sure what could possible happen in the next eighty pages that might endear Trace to me, but we’ll see.  I feel bad for Tony; her mom abandoned her, and her dad is just a real piece of work.  Tony is trying to leave her past behind her, but it isn’t working out the way she wanted.  She wants to be viewed as the quintessential “good girl” and always feels uneasy when she has to wear or do anything that doesn’t perfectly fit that mold.

Here’s hoping that Trace actually is redeemable!  I don’t want to do that thing where I fall for the jerk, even if this is just fiction.

Happy reading!

DeereReaderGirl

In Your Dreams

We all have at least one author whose books we will buy ASAP just because it is that author, whether we know what the book is about or not.  Ginger Scott is one of those authors for me.

I recently decided that I had to have hard copies of all of Ginger Scott’s books, and one of the first ones I bought was In Your Dreams, one of her most recent releases.

In Your Dreams is a part of the Falling series, and while it isn’t my favorite book of hers it is still phenomenal!

 

Going into this book, I wasn’t sure what to expect.  I knew Casey as Houston’s best friend.  We met Houston and Casey in The Girl I was Before and I already knew that Casey could be very. . . trying.  I knew that he was a deejay and that he was a loyal friend, but I wasn’t sure what else there was to him.  We find out right away that Casey and his father don’t have the best relationship; Casey doesn’t want to follow the secure path that his father has planned for him and their relationship is strained to say the least.  After a surprise encounter with his dad, Casey receives the shock of his life; a video from Houston of a girl singing a song about him, about what a jerk he is.  The problem?  He has no idea who she is.

Murphy hates attention, but she loves to sing.  Trying to conquer her fears she’s been playing open mic nights, performing her anthem about Casey.

When Houston shows up at one of the open mic nights, Murphy knows the jig is up.  Having gone to high school with Houston and Casey she knows they’re friends and has a good idea why Houston is there.  It isn’t long before Casey comes knocking, and Murphy wants none of it, expecting him to be the same devil may care player he was in high school.  Surprisingly enough, Casey doesn’t want to start anything with her; he wants to help her with her music.

What they’re doing is all business right?  Wrong.  Both of them having feelings they don’t want to acknowledge and try not to act on.  Through a series of events each going from bad to worse where Casey is concerned, Murphy softens her heart to him and starts to let him in, but will that be a mistake?

When Casey and Murphy grow closer, things go really well, there isn’t any of that stupidity of another girl getting in the way.  The craziness going on in Casey’s life coupled with Murphy’s anxieties, and Murphy believing he understands where the song “In Your Dreams, Casey Coffield” came from things begin to get tenuous.

Casey is constantly battling the feeling that all he is is some sponge, or a jerk.  He knows that where music is concerned he is powerful and fierce, but in other aspects of his life, he seems to feel inadequate.  His father made it very clear that Casey was a disappointment, and even though their relationship is negative, Casey carries that with him everywhere.  One thing that he really struggles with is not being too much of the jerk version of himself.  The first time that Casey goes to find Murphy, Houston advises him to be “a little less Casey.”  Casey knows he’s a jerk, and for a while he wears that hat as if it’s the only thing he can be.  Casey’s forced jerk nature in combination with his feelings of inadequacy and other negative feelings about himself leads him to feel unworthy of Murphy, no matter how he feels about her.

Throughout the story we see both characters grow.  Casey becomes selfless, putting Murphy’s dreams above his own desires, and when the situation calls for it, he finally steps up in his family even though the situation is not ideal.  We see Murphy go from mostly quiet and anxious to a person that knows her value and worth, that will fight for what she wants, and won’t sit quietly while people trounce all over her.

I truly, truly enjoyed this book.  There were topics covered in it that hit close to home for me, and in some cases were painful and evocative, but in a good way.  I also liked how, as in most of her books, Scott deals with anxiety of some sort.  She is so accurate and real in her dealings with anxiety, that for a person like me who does suffer from anxiety it makes the characters all the more real and easy to relate to.  I was very concerned towards the end of the book that we weren’t going to get a HEA, but I was proved wrong, happily enough.

I would definitely recommend this book, as well as all of Ginger Scott’s other books!  I sure hope you check them out!

Wicked Restless Release Day Blast

 

Join us in celebrating the release of WICKED RESTLESS by Ginger Scott!

WICKED RESTLESS

Very Mature YA Contemporary Romance

Scheduled to release: October 20, 2015

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Andrew Harper grew up in a house marked by tragedy. His older brother Owen did his best to shelter him, but you can only be protected from life’s pain for so long. Eventually, you end up just feeling numb…and isolated.

Loneliness was the one constant in Andrew’s life. Until one girl, met by chance in a high school hallway, changed everything. Emma Burke was a mystery and all that was beautiful in this world, the only air Andrew ever wanted to breathe. She took the lonely away, and filled it with hope and color, and Andrew would do anything to keep her safe, happy and whole.

But sometimes, what feels good and right is what ends up hurting us the most. And when Andrew and Emma are faced with an impossible decision, Andrew is tested to see just how far he’s willing to go for the girl who owns his heart.

Cuts are deep.

Scars are left behind.

And revenge beckons.

When Andrew finally gets his chance, in college, five years after his first love broke him completely, he finds out old feelings don’t really disappear just because you say you hate someone. The more he tries to avenge all that he believes he lost, the more he uncovers the real story of what happened years before.

Love is wicked. But a restless heart is never satisfied beating on its own. Can Andrew and Emma make it right before it’s too late, or will the ties that bind them now destroy their only chance at a future?

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About the Author:

Ginger Scott is an Amazon-bestselling author of eight young and new adult

romances, including Waiting on the Sidelines, Going Long, Blindness, How

We Deal With Gravity, This Is Falling, You and Everything After, Wild

Reckless and The Girl I Was Before.

A sucker for a good romance, Ginger’s other passion is sports, and she

often blends the two in her stories. (She’s also a sucker for a hot

quarterback, catcher, pitcher, point guard…the list goes on.) Ginger has

been writing and editing for newspapers, magazines and blogs for more than

15 years. She has told the stories of Olympians, politicians, actors,

scientists, cowboys, criminals and towns. For more on her and her work,

visit her website at http://www.littlemisswrite.com.

When she’s not writing, the odds are high that she’s somewhere near a

baseball diamond, either watching her son field pop flies like Bryce

Harper or cheering on her favorite baseball team, the Arizona

Diamondbacks. Ginger lives in Arizona and is married to her college

sweetheart whom she met at ASU (fork ’em, Devils).

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WICKED RESTLESS

Very Mature YA Contemporary Romance

Scheduled to release: October 20, 2015

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BLURB:

Andrew Harper grew up in a house marked by tragedy. His older brother Owen did his best to shelter him, but you can only be protected from life’s pain for so long. Eventually, you end up just feeling numb…and isolated.

Loneliness was the one constant in Andrew’s life. Until one girl, met by chance in a high school hallway, changed everything. Emma Burke was a mystery and all that was beautiful in this world, the only air Andrew ever wanted to breathe. She took the lonely away, and filled it with hope and color, and Andrew would do anything to keep her safe, happy and whole.

But sometimes, what feels good and right is what ends up hurting us the most. And when Andrew and Emma are faced with an impossible decision, Andrew is tested to see just how far he’s willing to go for the girl who owns his heart.

Cuts are deep.

Scars are left behind.

And revenge beckons.

When Andrew finally gets his chance, in college, five years after his first love broke him completely, he finds out old feelings don’t really disappear just because you say you hate someone. The more he tries to avenge all that he believes he lost, the more he uncovers the real story of what happened years before.

Love is wicked. But a restless heart is never satisfied beating on its own. Can Andrew and Emma make it right before it’s too late, or will the ties that bind them now destroy their only chance at a future?

EXCERPT:
“Alright, Harper. Who’s the target tonight?” Trent leans over me, startling me out of my trance, grabbing my next beer and taking it for his own.“Hey, dickhead,” I say. He holds up a hand and orders another one, sliding it to me. “I’m pretty sure it’s your turn this time.”

His face falls and his complexion turns green. Trent and I have this game we play with one another. It started as a drunken dare a few months ago, when he goaded me into taking a girl home from Majerle’s Pub. I’m not suave; I don’t have great pick-up lines. I usually wait for girls to hit on me. I wait for easy. When Trent dared me, I came up with my own set-up—I stole a girl’s wallet. I returned it to her later, pretending I’d found it. She was so grateful she spent the rest of the night sitting on my lap, her arms looped around my neck, her lips sucking on my skin, her hands soon finding their way in my pants.

That first girl taught me to never bring any of them to our apartment. I go to theirs now. It’s easier to leave then it is to kick someone out.

“Fine, I’ll go. But next time, I get to pick your girl,” I say, tipping my beer back to drink what’s left before leaving the bottle on the bar behind me and pointing at my friend.

“Dude, whatever. You know it’s your turn anyway,” he says.

“My choice next time,” I remind him as I walk backward. I know it’s his turn, and I also know he doesn’t really like taking the dare. Trent’s too nice, and he usually ends up dating the girl for weeks after. He doesn’t like to be an asshole. Or maybe he just doesn’t like people to say bad things about him. Maybe there’s no difference between the two.

I couldn’t give a shit what people say about me. Let ’em talk.

I make one pass through the crowded bar, letting my eyes roam over the dance floor and the tables that line the back wall on the way to the bathrooms. It’s a Friday night, so there are lots of girls here. It’s the middle of the semester, too, so they’re all ready to party—no finals to worry about. There’s one group that seems like an easy target, a blonde on the end who keeps trying to talk the others into dancing. I hover around the restrooms waiting for my shot, and when she finally drags the group of girls with her out to the dance floor, I walk back through the crowd, passing their table.

So easy.
Their wallets and purses are all piled in the center of the table except for a red bag looped over the back of a chair, the ID sticking out of the top. I drag my hand along the bottom of the table, and as I pass the red handbag I grab the small plastic card poking from it, tucking it into the sleeve around my palm. I glance up to make eye contact with Trent, and raise the corner of my mouth in a smirk.

“Dude, you are so slick at this. Seriously, if you flunk out of the engineering program you should just turn to a life of crime.”

I slide into my stool and look away from him. I know he was just saying words, but the joke doesn’t sit well with me. I have a chip on my shoulder. It’s my fucking chip, and I earned it. He also doesn’t know how many nights I walk that line with Harley, fixing bets that are illegal in the first place. Trent just thinks I like the workout boxing gives me.

“Well…let’s see it? Who’s the lucky lady?”

I pull my sleeve loose from around my wrist and let the card slide out, flipping it over while I drink what’s left of my beer, and that’s when karma slaps me like a bitch.

She’s older. Of course she’s older. She’s twenty-one, too. But she looks…older. She also looks the same. Nobody looks good in an ID photo. Emma Burke looks like a dream. Her brown hair is just as I remember it, long waves around her bright pink cheeks, lips that stretch into this sensuous smile. I don’t know if it’s sensuous to anyone else, but to me, it sure as fuck is.

It’s also cruel. I swear to god she’s mocking me in her picture, her eyes shining through and looking at me, calling me stupid, telling me what a chump I am for thinking I was some sort of hero or something.

She’s slapping me in the face for being good and decent to her.

Don’t worry, Emma. I won’t ever be good and decent to you again.

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About the Author:

Ginger Scott is an Amazon-bestselling author of eight young and new adult
romances, including Waiting on the Sidelines, Going Long, Blindness, How
We Deal With Gravity, This Is Falling, You and Everything After, Wild
Reckless and The Girl I Was Before.

A sucker for a good romance, Ginger’s other passion is sports, and she
often blends the two in her stories. (She’s also a sucker for a hot
quarterback, catcher, pitcher, point guard…the list goes on.) Ginger has
been writing and editing for newspapers, magazines and blogs for more than
15 years. She has told the stories of Olympians, politicians, actors,
scientists, cowboys, criminals and towns. For more on her and her work,
visit her website at http://www.littlemisswrite.com.

When she’s not writing, the odds are high that she’s somewhere near a
baseball diamond, either watching her son field pop flies like Bryce
Harper or cheering on her favorite baseball team, the Arizona
Diamondbacks. Ginger lives in Arizona and is married to her college
sweetheart whom she met at ASU (fork ’em, Devils).

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The Girl I Was Before

 

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THE GIRL I WAS BEFORE (Falling #3)

 NA Contemporary Romance

Scheduled to release: June 23, 2015

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I’m the selfish one. I suppose that’s the nicest thing people say about me. I’ve heard the other things, too. “Paige Owens is a pretty girl with nothing else to offer. She’s just a good time at a party. She’s stupid, heartless, cold and useless. All she cares about is getting a guy to look at her. Why would anyone want to be her friend?”

Some of those things are true. Others were true. They’re all hurtful.

None of it matters.

I’m ready to make the hard choices. I’m ready to face the consequences. I’m ready to be the girl I was before, and I’m done being the one who lost her way.

I’m ready to become the girl Houston Orr sees when he looks at me.

Houston isn’t a star athlete. He doesn’t play in a band. He’s never going to be president, and his life is so far away from simple and easy it isn’t even funny. He wasn’t part of my plan. But I’m starting to think plans are overrated, and maybe our stories are what we make them. And mine depends entirely on me, and the choices I make…starting now.

Houston is my fairytale. He’s perfectly imperfect. He’s poetry and life. He’s truth and heartbreak, all rolled up in a tall body with dark hair, broad shoulders and green eyes that lull me into submission. He’s nothing I ever thought I wanted, but the very thing I need. He’s the only guy I’ve ever really loved, and he thinks I’m a princess. I fell into him, and now I’m holding on.

But sometimes life takes away our ability to choose. Sometimes…things aren’t in your control. Sometimes, it hurts to be selfless. My only hope is that when it comes time to choose, I get it right.

Welcome to my once upon a time and wish for happily ever after.

 This book was fabulous.  It wasn’t my favorite Ginger Scott book, but I loved it, just like I’ve loved all the others.  I didn’t think I would ever like Paige, let alone root for her to succeed, but this book changed my mind.  Not only did I like Paige, but on some level I understood her and I felt for her.  I know that I’ve done things I’ve instantly regretted and things I wish I hadn’t done and could take back, and I’m sure everyone else has as well.  Paige was trying to redeem herself throughout this whole book.  She didn’t want to be that girl she used to be anymore.  She wanted to be better.  She wanted to be herself and not cow down to other people anymore.  I was so impressed by her backbone, but on more than one occasion I just wanted to shake sense into that girl.  She could make really frustrating, cringe-worthy choices sometimes.  I also really loved Huston.  I was sure I would like him, but wasn’t sure what to make of him at first.  He really impressed me.  There were moments where I felt like, “Dude!  You could do better than Paige,” but I was still really happy with how things ended.  I would definitely recommend this book and the rest of the series.

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About Ginger ScottGinger Scott is an Amazon-bestselling author of eight young and new adult

romances, including Waiting on the Sidelines, Going Long, Blindness, How

We Deal With Gravity, This Is Falling, You and Everything After, Wild

Reckless and The Girl I Was Before.

A sucker for a good romance, Ginger’s other passion is sports, and she

often blends the two in her stories. (She’s also a sucker for a hot

quarterback, catcher, pitcher, point guard…the list goes on.) Ginger has

been writing and editing for newspapers, magazines and blogs for more than

15 years. She has told the stories of Olympians, politicians, actors,

scientists, cowboys, criminals and towns. For more on her and her work,

visit her website at http://www.littlemisswrite.com.

When she’s not writing, the odds are high that she’s somewhere near a

baseball diamond, either watching her son field pop flies like Bryce

Harper or cheering on her favorite baseball team, the Arizona

Diamondbacks. Ginger lives in Arizona and is married to her college

sweetheart whom she met at ASU (fork ’em, Devils).

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THE GIRL I WAS BEFORE (Falling #3)

 NA Contemporary Romance

Scheduled to release: June 23, 2015

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I’m the selfish one. I suppose that’s the nicest thing people say about me. I’ve heard the other things, too. “Paige Owens is a pretty girl with nothing else to offer. She’s just a good time at a party. She’s stupid, heartless, cold and useless. All she cares about is getting a guy to look at her. Why would anyone want to be her friend?”

Some of those things are true. Others were true. They’re all hurtful.

None of it matters.

I’m ready to make the hard choices. I’m ready to face the consequences. I’m ready to be the girl I was before, and I’m done being the one who lost her way.

I’m ready to become the girl Houston Orr sees when he looks at me.

Houston isn’t a star athlete. He doesn’t play in a band. He’s never going to be president, and his life is so far away from simple and easy it isn’t even funny. He wasn’t part of my plan. But I’m starting to think plans are overrated, and maybe our stories are what we make them. And mine depends entirely on me, and the choices I make…starting now.

Houston is my fairytale. He’s perfectly imperfect. He’s poetry and life. He’s truth and heartbreak, all rolled up in a tall body with dark hair, broad shoulders and green eyes that lull me into submission. He’s nothing I ever thought I wanted, but the very thing I need. He’s the only guy I’ve ever really loved, and he thinks I’m a princess. I fell into him, and now I’m holding on.

But sometimes life takes away our ability to choose. Sometimes…things aren’t in your control. Sometimes, it hurts to be selfless. My only hope is that when it comes time to choose, I get it right.

Welcome to my once upon a time and wish for happily ever after.

About the Author:

Ginger Scott is an Amazon-bestselling author of eight young and new adult romances, including Waiting on the Sidelines, Going Long, Blindness, How We Deal With Gravity, This Is Falling, You and Everything After, Wild Reckless and The Girl I Was Before.

A sucker for a good romance, Ginger’s other passion is sports, and she often blends the two in her stories. (She’s also a sucker for a hot quarterback, catcher, pitcher, point guard…the list goes on.) Ginger has been writing and editing for newspapers, magazines and blogs for more than 15 years. She has told the stories of Olympians, politicians, actors, scientists, cowboys, criminals and towns. For more on her and her work, visit her website at http://www.littlemisswrite.com.

When she’s not writing, the odds are high that she’s somewhere near a baseball diamond, either watching her son field pop flies like Bryce Harper or cheering on her favorite baseball team, the Arizona Diamondbacks. Ginger lives in Arizona and is married to her college sweetheart whom she met at ASU (fork ’em, Devils).

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The Girl I Was Before

THE GIRL I WAS BEFORE (Falling #3)

 NA Contemporary Romance

Scheduled to release: June 23, 2015

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BLURB:

I’m the selfish one. I suppose that’s the nicest thing people say about me. I’ve heard the other things, too. “Paige Owens is a pretty girl with nothing else to offer. She’s just a good time at a party. She’s stupid, heartless, cold and useless. All she cares about is getting a guy to look at her. Why would anyone want to be her friend?”

Some of those things are true. Others were true. They’re all hurtful.

None of it matters.

I’m ready to make the hard choices. I’m ready to face the consequences. I’m ready to be the girl I was before, and I’m done being the one who lost her way.

I’m ready to become the girl Houston Orr sees when he looks at me.

Houston isn’t a star athlete. He doesn’t play in a band. He’s never going to be president, and his life is so far away from simple and easy it isn’t even funny. He wasn’t part of my plan. But I’m starting to think plans are overrated, and maybe our stories are what we make them. And mine depends entirely on me, and the choices I make…starting now.

Houston is my fairytale. He’s perfectly imperfect. He’s poetry and life. He’s truth and heartbreak, all rolled up in a tall body with dark hair, broad shoulders and green eyes that lull me into submission. He’s nothing I ever thought I wanted, but the very thing I need. He’s the only guy I’ve ever really loved, and he thinks I’m a princess. I fell into him, and now I’m holding on.

But sometimes life takes away our ability to choose. Sometimes…things aren’t in your control. Sometimes, it hurts to be selfless. My only hope is that when it comes time to choose, I get it right.

Welcome to my once upon a time and wish for happily ever after.

EXCERPT:

I’m slow with my hand, and when she sees my fingers near her cheek, her breath hitches again.

“I like you, Paige,” I repeat, my voice a whisper, my lips close to her ear. I barely remember how to do this, how to do any of this, but every movement, every word with her right now feels so natural. “I don’t want to. You don’t want me to. But I do. And so do you. And we can keep fighting, and you can walk away from things, and you can yell at me when nothing makes sense and you don’t have anyone else to blame. I’m okay with that. I’ll be that guy. Even though part of me doesn’t want to. That part is fucking terrified. But the rest of me…”

I step back again, my hand fully on her cheek now, her weight resting on me, her eyes closed, lips still trembling.

“The rest of me just wants to kiss you,” I say, closing the inches quickly until my lips touch hers, surprise hers, claim hers and quell her fears all in one action. Her protest is short, and soon her hands find my shoulders and then my back and she pulls me into her. My hands are holding her face, and we both walk backward until her back is against my door.

I reach with one hand, frantic to find the doorknob, desperate to open the damn door. Panicked that if I break this contact she’ll stop, that she’ll slap me, that she’ll go back to not wanting to…anything. When I get the door open, we both fall inside, but our lips never part, our grip remains tight on one another. Reaching with one hand, I close the door behind us gently, not wanting to make any sound that could possibly get us caught.

This cannot be interrupted. It’s still too new, too at risk for being the only time I get to feel this. Goddamn does she taste like the most expensive drink I’ve ever had. Scooping her into my arms, I pull her even closer to me, until my legs hit the bed. I don’t want her to think anything other than this kiss is enough. I’ve thought about more. Fuck, I think about more twenty-three of my twenty-four hours, dreaming when I’m sleeping, daydreaming when I’m awake. But this kiss—it’s enough right now.

About the Author:

Ginger Scott is an Amazon-bestselling author of eight young and new adult

romances, including Waiting on the Sidelines, Going Long, Blindness, How

We Deal With Gravity, This Is Falling, You and Everything After, Wild

Reckless and The Girl I Was Before.

A sucker for a good romance, Ginger’s other passion is sports, and she

often blends the two in her stories. (She’s also a sucker for a hot

quarterback, catcher, pitcher, point guard…the list goes on.) Ginger has

been writing and editing for newspapers, magazines and blogs for more than

15 years. She has told the stories of Olympians, politicians, actors,

scientists, cowboys, criminals and towns. For more on her and her work,

visit her website at http://www.littlemisswrite.com.

When she’s not writing, the odds are high that she’s somewhere near a

baseball diamond, either watching her son field pop flies like Bryce

Harper or cheering on her favorite baseball team, the Arizona

Diamondbacks. Ginger lives in Arizona and is married to her college

sweetheart whom she met at ASU (fork ’em, Devils).

Social Media Links:

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/GingerScottAuthor

Twitter: @TheGingerScott

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/thegingerscott/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/GingerScottAuthor

Google: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GingerScottAuthor/posts

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/GingerScott

Website: http://www.littlemisswrite.com

Wild Reckless

Hey guys!

A couple of weeks ago I finished Wild Reckless by Ginger Scott and it was amazing!  I loved this book!  It’s probably the best Ginger Scott book I’ve ever read.  I love each other her books more than the last, and this book was no exception!  This has honestly become my new favorite book!

Kensington has left everything she knows behind because her dad wanted to move.  She’s not thrilled with where she’s at and she misses her best friends.  Not to mention her new neighbor, he’s gorgeous and annoying and apparently has no respect for someone else’s property.  He comes and plays basketball in the hoop hanging off her garage.  She hopes she won’t have to deal with him much, but sadly, he goes to her school and she runs into him the first day.  He seems determined to make her life hard, but she won’t back down and they make life frustrating for each other.

Owen Harper had a hard childhood.  His dad was the town crazy that ended up jumping off a Ferris Wheel right in front of him.  He’s become a hardened young man, and to everyone in town, Owen and his brothers are nothing but trouble and couldn’t possibly amount to anything.

I felt so bad for Owen when I first met him, but then as I got to see him more in the story I was just like, “I cannot believe this is the love interest.  Am I supposed to like him?  I’m not ever going to like him.”  He was so mean and frustrating I didn’t understand how I was ever going to like him, but somewhere around seventy pages in I found myself squealing about Owen and I kind of wanted to bop myself in the head because he had been so blech and now I liked him so.  I didn’t like Owen because he so maliciously told Kensington something about her dad, and seemed pretty chipper about how it hurt her.  She ended up running off with him later to spite her dad and then everything between them changed.  I’m not saying that Owen was suddenly a straight laced, nice guy, because that would be a lie, but he wasn’t such a jerk all the time anymore.

I really liked that once they got together, they didn’t get into a fight and then stay apart for most of the book, only to reconcile at the end.  I loved that when they had problems they were typically short lived.  I loved the ending.  It made me so happy, and I wish that there was going to be more books following this one.

This book really opened my eyes and changed things for me.  I was having, and still slightly am, having a stressful situation concerning friendships in my life.  During and after reading this book, things were put into perspective for me.  Your real friends won’t intentionally do things that will hurt your feelings and then continue to do them.  Your real friends will have your back and support you.  It also really drove home that any relationship requires both people to try and put forth effort for things to work out.  If someone isn’t putting time in to the relationship and are showing you that you aren’t a priority, then you’re not and you need to quit making excuses for that person.

Ginger Scott did an excellent job, and I sure hope you guys check this book out and that she keeps putting out such fabulous books!

Happy reading!

DeereReaderGirl

Wild Reckless Release Day Blitz

Join us in celebrating the release of WILD RECKLESS by Ginger Scott!

WILD RECKLESS

Very Mature YA Contemporary Romance

Scheduled to release: March 17, 2015

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BLURB:

Kensington Worth had a vision for her senior year. It involved her best friends, her posh private school in downtown Chicago and time alone with her piano until her audition was perfected, a guaranteed ticket into the best music programs in the world.

Instead, a nightmare took over.

It didn’t happen all at once, but her life unraveled quickly—a tiny thread that evil somehow kept pulling until everything precious was taken from her. She was suddenly living miles away from her old life, trapped in an existence she didn’t choose—one determined to destroy her from the inside, leaving only hate and anger behind. It didn’t help that her neighbor, the one whose eyes held danger, was enjoying every second of her fall.

Owen Harper was trouble, his heart wild and his past the kind that’s spoken about in whispers. And somehow, his path was always intertwined with Kensington’s, every interaction crushing her, ruining her hope for any future better than her now. Sometimes, though, what everyone warns is trouble, is exactly what the heart needs. Owen Harper was consumed with darkness, and it held onto his soul for years. When Kensington looked at him, she saw a boy who’d gotten good at taking others down when they threatened his carefully balanced life. But the more she looked, the more she saw other things too—good things…things to admire.

Things…to love. Things that made her want to be reckless.

And those things…they were the scariest of all. 

Excerpt:

I dodge backpacks and elbows through the busy hallway until I see the glass door of the principal’s office swing open, Owen stepping through, his own pink slip crumpled in his hand, his eyes still dark, angry.

“Are you okay?” I ask, walking up to him, my steps coming quicker. He grabs my hand fast, his grip on my fingers tight, almost painful, and pulls me behind him through the thick crowd in the hall until we reach the back door, near the loading zone for the cafeteria. He pushes down hard, forcing the door open, then pulls my arm, leading me around a corner to a line of recycling bins.

“I’m so sorry…” I start, but Owen’s hands find me fast, his fingers wrapping around my shoulders, his force moving me back until I’m flush with the wall, and then his lips crash down on me.

His hands slide from my shoulders to my neck and into my hair, his mouth covering mine as if he needs my air to breathe, and he closes the small distance between us, the warmth and hardness of him pressing into my body, my hands operating on their own instinct, finding his sides and back until I’m clinging to him, grabbing bunches of his black sweatshirt all at once.

Owen’s hand moves to his head while he’s kissing me, and he tosses his hat to the ground to the side of us, and I let my fingers move to his hair, weaving the strands in and out, letting the softness of them curl around me.

This is the best kiss of my life. Every kiss with Owen has been the best kiss of my life. But this one—it’s full of something more. His lips work mine for long seconds, his tongue passing over mine slowly, his teeth dragging over my bottom lip, my top lip, tugging on me and pulling me into him even deeper. I can feel his heartbeat through his shirt, and I let my hands roam over his chest and around his back again, the feel of him exactly as it is every time I dream.

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About the Author:

Ginger Scott is an Amazon-bestselling author of six young and new adult romances, including Waiting on the Sidelines, Going Long, Blindness, How We Deal With Gravity, This Is Falling and You and Everything After.

A sucker for a good romance, Ginger’s other passion is sports, and she often blends the two in her stories. (She’s also a sucker for a hot quarterback, catcher, pitcher, point guard…the list goes on.) Ginger has been writing and editing for newspapers, magazines and blogs for more than 15 years. She has told the stories of Olympians, politicians, actors, scientists, cowboys, criminals and towns. For more on her and her work, visit her website at http://www.littlemisswrite.com.

When she’s not writing, the odds are high that she’s somewhere near a baseball diamond, either watching her son field pop flies like Bryce Harper or cheering on her favorite baseball team, the Arizona Diamondbacks. Ginger lives in Arizona and is married to her college sweetheart whom she met at ASU (fork ’em, Devils).

Social Media Links:

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/GingerScottAuthor

Twitter: @TheGingerScott

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/thegingerscott/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/GingerScottAuthor

Google: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GingerScottAuthor/posts

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/GingerScott

Website: http://www.littlemisswrite.com

Wild Reckless Teaser

Blurb:

Kensington Worth had a vision for her senior year. It involved her best friends, her posh private school in downtown Chicago and time alone with her piano until her audition was perfected, a guaranteed ticket into the best music programs in the world.

Instead, a nightmare took over. 

It didn’t happen all at once, but her life unraveled quickly—a tiny thread that evil somehow kept pulling until everything precious was taken from her. She was suddenly living miles away from her old life, trapped in an existence she didn’t choose—one determined to destroy her from the inside, leaving only hate and anger behind. It didn’t help that her neighbor, the one whose eyes held danger, was enjoying every second of her fall.

Owen Harper was trouble, his heart wild and his past the kind that’s spoken about in whispers. And somehow, his path was always intertwined with Kensington’s, every interaction crushing her, ruining her hope for any future better than her now. Sometimes, though, what everyone warns is trouble, is exactly what the heart needs. Owen Harper was consumed with darkness, and it held onto his soul for years. When Kensington looked at him, she saw a boy who’d gotten good at taking others down when they threatened his carefully balanced life. But the more she looked, the more she saw other things too—good things…things to admire.

Things…to love. Things that made her want to be reckless.

And those things…they were the scariest of all.

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Author bio:

Ginger Scott is an Amazon-bestselling author of six young and new adult romances, including Waiting on the Sidelines, Going Long, Blindness, How We Deal With Gravity, This Is Falling and You and Everything After.

A sucker for a good romance, Ginger’s other passion is sports, and she often blends the two in her stories. (She’s also a sucker for a hot quarterback, catcher, pitcher, point guard…the list goes on.) Ginger has been writing and editing for newspapers, magazines and blogs for more than 15 years. She has told the stories of Olympians, politicians, actors, scientists, cowboys, criminals and towns. For more on her and her work, visit her website at http://www.littlemisswrite.com.

When she’s not writing, the odds are high that she’s somewhere near a baseball diamond, either watching her son field pop flies like Bryce Harper or cheering on her favorite baseball team, the Arizona Diamondbacks. Ginger lives in Arizona and is married to her college sweetheart whom she met at ASU (fork ’em, Devils).

Social Media Links: 

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/GingerScottAuthor

Twitter: @TheGingerScott

Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/thegingerscott/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/GingerScottAuthor

Google: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+GingerScottAuthor/posts

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/GingerScott

Website: http://www.littlemisswrite.com