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Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.
Today, we’re joining Rachel’s Random Resources for a stop along their current tour featuring a Young Adult title that has love written in the stars...or not. Well, love is fickle enough, let alone teenagers, so yeah...it may or may not be, but you’ll have to read on to see. Ready or not, let’s turn our sights to today’s title in the spotlight and ebook of choice…
Dating the It Guy
by
Krysten Lindsay Hager
About the book...
Emme starts dating a popular high school student who happens to be from a famous political family. It seems like everyone at school either wants to be Brendon Agretti or date him. Emme feels out of her comfort zone in Brendon's world and it doesn't help that his picture-perfect ex seems determined to get back into his life, along with every other girl who wants to be the future Mrs. Agretti. Emme is already conflicted due to the fact her last boyfriend dumped her and her whole world is off kilter with her grandparents’ health issues. Life suddenly seems easier pushing Brendon away and relying on her crystals and horoscopes to guide her. Emme soon starts to realize she needs to focus less on the stars and more on her senses. Can Emme get over her insecurities and make her relationship work? Life sure is complicated when you're dating the it guy.
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Emme and Brendon...a combination I didn’t see coming, nor apparently did Emme, but sometimes the love that is unexpected is just that much sweeter.
Emme is all spirit guides and numbering the stars. Brendon is the son of a political figure who runs in those auspicious circles some can only dream of ever reaching. Black and white facts, their paths never should have crossed...but if we dig a little deeper, we see that there is more than meets the eye. He has dreams for a future outside of his family’s pre mapped plans. She is looking for something a little more solid to hold on to in her times of questioning and need. In each other, they find a chance at a new beginning, a person they can be their whole selves with, and a place that while not built on tried and true cornerstones, is likelier to remain standing than most other starts at their age. They have good times and bad times, both in their relationship and outside. They deal with losses and gains, struggles and triumphs, happiness and misery...but for the most part, they do it together, and the strength they glean from each other, even when apart, helps them get through.
By book’s end, I had accepted the pairing, though it still felt like they weren’t quite a part of each other’s worlds. I suppose that’s all the more reason for them to create one of their own and invite only those in willing to be a part of something new and unexpected...which honestly, doesn’t sound half bad to me. Recommended for the YA lit crowd of all ages as it’s a clean read, so no cautions to be issued.
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About the author...
Krysten Lindsay Hager writes about friendship, self-esteem, fitting in, frenemies, crushes, fame, first loves, and values. She is the author of the young adult Cecily Taylor Series, the young adult Star Series, Dating the It Guy, and the preteen Landry’s True Colors Series.
Her debut novel, True Colors, won the Readers Favorite award for best preteen book and the Dayton Book Expo Bestseller Award for children/teens. Competing with the Star is a Readers' Favorite Book Award Finalist. Best Friends...Forever? is a 2019 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal Winner in the Children - Preteen genre. Landry in Like is a Literary Classics Gold Medal recipient and a 2020 Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal Winner. She received her BA in English and master's degree in liberal studies from the University of Michigan-Flint.
Krysten's work has been featured in USA Today, The Flint Journal, the Grand Haven Tribune, the Beavercreek Current, the Bellbrook Times, Springfield News-Sun, Grand Blanc View, Dayton Daily News and on Living Dayton.
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Special thanks to Rachel of Rachel’s Random Resources for the chance to bring this tour to you as well as the ebook for review. (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the author, this tour, or those on the horizon, feel free to click through the links provided above. This title is available now, so click on over to your favorite online retailer to snag your copy today.
Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!
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