Synopsis of the book:
Nico Medina’s world is eleven miles away from mine. During the day, it’s a place where doors are open—where homes are lived in, and neighbors love. But when the sun sets, it becomes a place where young boys are afraid, where eyes watch from idling cars that hide in the shadows and wicked smoke flows from pipes.
West End is the kind of place that people survive. It buries them—one at a time, one way or another. And when Nico was a little boy, his mom always told him to run.
I’m Reagan Prescott—coach’s daughter, sister to the prodigal son, daughter in the perfect family.
Life on top.
Lies.
My world is the ugly one. Private school politics and one of the best high school football programs in the country can break even the toughest souls. Our darkness plays out in whispers and rumors, and money and status trump all. I would know—I’ve watched it kill my family slowly, strangling us for years.
In our twisted world, a boy from West End is the only shining light.
Quarterback.
Hero.
Heart.
Good.
I hated him before I needed him.
I fell for him fast.
I loved him when it was almost too late.
When two ugly worlds collide, even the strongest fall. But my world…it hasn’t met the boy from West End.
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Review:Dear Ginger,
If you're going to continue to write FIVE STAR books that do things to me like make me cry, make me root OUT LOUD for your characters, and make me suffer a FIVE STAR book hangover, begging for more, then I'm going to have to THANK YOU for every heart-tugging word you put on every page!
Thank you, Ginger, for giving Nico and Reagan to the world. For allowing them to know who they are and for making them willing to overcome their own fears, to go against the grain, and to fight for themselves and for each other.
Thank you, Ms. Scott, for tackling the issues of racism and classism with fearless abandon, a tender hand, and at the same time, without being preachy. The careful grace and excellence you've availed in this book is unmatched.
Thank you, fearless Head Ninja, for making it close to impossible to pick ONE favorite of your books. After finishing The Hard Count I have decided that ALL of your books are my favorite, each for a different and specific reason.
Thank you, Ginger, for giving readers this priceless piece of art and for pouring your heart into it with reckless abandon. It's absolutely obvious that you poured your whole soul into this.
Congratulations Ginger! You've penned the quintessential YA novel.
With love,
Your "always here to read, blubbering like a baby, nose-blowing, ARC reading" chick from Philly,
T~
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About the Author:
Ginger Scott is an Amazon-bestselling and Goodreads Choice
Award-nominated author of several 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, The Girl I Was Before, Wild Reckless,
Wicked Restless and In Your Dreams.
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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