The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things blog tour with excerpt & #giveaway #YA @InkSlingerPR @MsAnnAguirre
Hello all and welcome to our stop on The Queen of Bright and Shiny Things blog tour. Don't you love the cover? I do! This is the first day of the tour hosted by InkSlinger PR. We would like to congratulate author Ann Aguirre on her latest publication. For our stop we are sharing an excerpt of this new and exciting contemporary YA novel and there's a giveaway for everyone to enter. Enjoy!
by Ann Aguirre
YA contemporary
Hardcover, 328 pages
Expected publication: April 7th 2015 by Feiwel & Friends
Sage Czinski is trying really hard to be perfect. If she manages it, people won’t peer beyond the surface, or ask hard questions about her past. She’s learned to substitute causes for relationships, and it’s working just fine… until Shane Cavendish strolls into her math class. He’s a little antisocial, a lot beautiful, and everything she never knew she always wanted.
Shane Cavendish just wants to be left alone to play guitar and work on his music. He’s got heartbreak and loneliness in his rearview mirror, and this new school represents his last chance. He doesn’t expect to be happy; he only wants to graduate and move on. He never counted on a girl like Sage.
But love doesn’t mend all broken things, and sometimes life has to fall apart before it can be put back together again…
Shane Cavendish just wants to be left alone to play guitar and work on his music. He’s got heartbreak and loneliness in his rearview mirror, and this new school represents his last chance. He doesn’t expect to be happy; he only wants to graduate and move on. He never counted on a girl like Sage.
But love doesn’t mend all broken things, and sometimes life has to fall apart before it can be put back together again…
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Excerpt:
I have forty seconds to spare when I burst through the doors of the Curly-Q. Mildred gives me the side-eye, but since I'm not technically late, she just says, “Get your smock on, girl. There's cleaning to be done.”
Though it's not strictly legal or sanitary, I'm pretty sure they save the hair for hours. The stylists just sweep it away from the chairs and pile it out of the way. So by the time I arrive, there's a small Sasquatch on the floor. It takes me an hour to get the shop pristine. Customers come and go, mostly walk-in haircuts. Around six, it slows down, and Grace beckons me to the chair.
“When are you gonna let me give you some highlights?” She asks this often.
This time, however, I say, “Tonight, if you have time.”
Grace gets excited. “Mildred, get the camera. I'll do it free if you let me take a picture for the Before and After wall.”
I eye the wall, not sure I want to be immortalized up there, along with all the 80s hair and prom refugees, but eventually I shrug. “Why not?”
My hair is a dark blond, mousy and forgettable. I mean, it's decent hair, neither straight, nor curly. Left to its own devices, it falls in messy waves. That's why I wear a lot of ponytails and braids. Aunt Gabby has similar problems, only she gets it lightened and highlighted so it looks bright and flirty, and she spends forty-five minutes a day straightening hers, so it's sleek and smooth by the time she goes to the shop. UPS Joe seems to like the results anyway.
Grace fastens me into the plastic smock, then snaps a Polaroid. I still don't care that much how I look; I mean, it's so superficial, but a small part of me would like to be prettier, at least maximize what I'm working with. I tell myself this is more of a social experiment, and I can evaluate how people react to the new me. But that's not it.
I'm totally doing this to see if Shane notices. Sometimes I hate being a girl.
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I just started this one and I already can't wait to get home to finish it. :)
ReplyDeletethansk for sharing
Michelle @ Book Briefs
I loved your Razorland series. This book sounds so different, but I'm sure I'll love this one too.
ReplyDeleteI can be reached at kmaccarron (at) gmail (dot) com. Thanks so much!