This is my stop during the book blitz for Best Friends…Forever? by Krysten Lindsay Hager. This book blitz is organized by Lola's Blog Tours. The book blitz runs from 14 till 20 September, you can view the blitz schedule on the website of Lola’s Blog Tours.
So far this series contains 2 books: True Colors (Landry's True Colors #1) and Best Friends... Forever? (Landry's True Colors #2). Book 3 Landry in Like is coming soon!
Author: Krysten Lindsay Hager
Title: Best Friends... Forever? Series: Landry's True Colors #2
Genre: Contemporary
Age category: Middle Grade/ Young Adult
Release Date: March 24th 2015
Blurb
Good friends have your back, but some go behind it.
Landry Albright hopes the new year will start off in an amazing way—instead she has to deal with more frenemy issues, boy drama, and having most of her best friends make the cheerleading squad without her. Suddenly, it seems like all anyone can talk about is starting high school next year—something she finds terrifying.
Landry gets her first boyfriend (her crush, Vladi Yagudin), but the relationship starts to go south just as things come to a head with her friends. She feels lost and left out, but finds good advice about dealing with frenemies from what she considers an unlikely source. Landry faces having to speak up for what’s right, tell the truth (even when it hurts), and how to get past the fear of failure as she gets another shot at competing in the American Ingénue modeling competition. Will Landry get a second chance with her friends, fame, and Vladi?
You can buy Best Friends... Forever? on
Excerpt
“Landry, it’s gotta be so awkward for you
to be going to Vladi’s school next year,” Tori said. “I mean, what if you run
into him during the tour?"
"It’s a huge place,ʺ Ashanti said.
“People break up all the time. It’s not a big deal.ʺ
Tori raised her eyebrows as if to say,
“Yeah, right,” and went back to her sandwich. Meanwhile my delicious homemade
soup was no longer sitting well. It never occurred to me Vladi might be around
during the first pre‑freshman tour. I would be mortified if I ran into him and he was
with a girl. Or worse yet, running into him, and he was with Yasmin. Plus, I
hadn’t told my mom about the breakup, so if she saw him, she’d probably go over
to talk to him. I could already imagine it: “Landry, Vladi’s here! Hon? Why are
you hiding behind the garbage can? Your boyfriend, Vladi, is here. Come say,
‘hello.’ Stop trying to run away. Why is everyone laughing and pointing at you
and calling you a ‘loser dumpee?’ What does that mean?”
Well, maybe the world would end and I
wouldn’t have to deal with high school or Vladi and my mother running into each
other.
****
Sadly, the world did not end, and on
Thursday, we all had to go to the high school for a freshman information night
from 6 to 9 p.m.
First book in the series
Author: Krysten Lindsay Hager
Title: True Colors
Series: Landry's True Colors #1
Genre: Contemporary
Age category: Middle Grade/ Young Adult
Release Date: June 17th 2014
Blurb
A little competition can really bring out people’s true colors.
Landry Albright just wants to be one of the interesting girls at school who always have exciting things going on in their lives. She wants to stand out, but also wants to fit in, so she gives in when her two best friends, Ericka and Tori, push her into trying out for a teen reality show modeling competition with them. Landry goes in nervous, but impresses the judges enough to make it to the next round.
However, Ericka and Tori get cut and basically "unfriend" her on Monday at school. Landry tries to make new friends, but gets caught up between wanting to be herself and conforming to who her new friends want her to be. Along the way she learns that modeling is nowhere as glamorous as it seems, how to deal with frenemies, a new crush, and that true friends see you for who you really are and like you because of it.
You can buy True Colors on
Excerpt
While I was deciding whether or not to
chicken out, the stage manager, Georgia, started having the girls go out on
stage. I overheard somebody say one girl fell out of her shoe as she stepped on
the runway.
“Is she okay?”
“Yeah, she’s fine. She just pretended to
have two heels on and walked on her tip toes,” Georgia said.
I would have burst into tears and run off
the stage — kind of like I did when I was four years old and in a dance
recital. We were supposed to be little ballerinas and have scarves attached to
our tutus, but my mom was still in school at the time and she came home late
and forgot to give me my scarves. So all the other little girls pulled out
their scarves, and there’s a video of me looking on either side of my tutu for
my scarves and then bursting into tears crying “Mommy!” as I ran off the stage.
My grandmother said I was adorable, but I don’t think it was any coincidence my
grandfather died two weeks later.
At least I didn’t have to worry about
missing scarves tonight. All I had to do was focus on not tripping. If I could
just make it down the runway and back, I’d be fine. Unless, of course, I
suddenly came down with Tourette’s Syndrome and started swearing live on the
air… but I’d know if I had Tourette’s, right? It doesn’t just come on out of
nowhere, does it?
“Okay, girls. Your group is next,” Georgia
said.
I took a deep breath. All I had to do is
say, “My name is Landry, and I’m from Grand Rapids.” Easy—as long as I didn’t
get the dry heaves or puke into the microphone and electrocute myself…or get
diarrhea on live TV. Why did I ever go to the audition in the first place?
Everything was fine when I was just boring old Landry fading into the
background. The girls at school were a lot nicer to me when I was nobody
special. I mean, before this stupid competition I had friends, but now it
seemed like there was no one I could trust. Maybe if I lost this stupid thing I
could go home and everything would be back to normal.
“Okay, girls. You guys are next.” Georgia
pushed me in the back. “Don’t forget to smile,” she said in my ear.
Then the girl in front of me morphed into a
different person. She straightened her spine and walked with a little skip in
her step. “I’m Desiree, and I’m from Sterling Heights,” she said in a low sexy
voice. Great, I had to follow her.
“I’m Landry, and I’m from Chicago,
Illinois,” I said. I moved away from the microphone and realized I said
“Chicago” instead of “Grand Rapids,” so I went back to the microphone to correct
myself and slammed into the next girl. She acted like she didn’t notice, but I
had hit the microphone and it made a shrieking noise. I heard laughter. People
were laughing at me. On television. I wanted to die.
I saw Georgia gesturing at me to get off
the stage, and I walked off. I had been practicing my stupid runway walk for
weeks and for what? A chance to humiliate myself on live TV? I’ve always been
sorta accident prone. If anybody was going to do something stupid and
embarrassing it was probably me, but I thought I could control myself for two
seconds on live television. I’m such an idiot.
What people are saying about True Colors (Landry’s True Colors Series Book One)
From Teenage Book Recommendations in the UK: "This is a fantastically relatable and real book which I feel captures all of the insecurities and troubles which haunt the modern teenage girl. It is about a young model who has to go through tough times when she is torn between a life as a model and managing her friendships. You learn which friends she can most trust and which will create the drama typical of teenage life. Follow the life of Landry and try to see if you can find out which are her true friends before their true colours are revealed. This book is all about relationships, hopes and truth. I loved this book!"
From Books & Authors Spot
“This book is such an inspiration for those who just care about their looks and are tensed about them. This thing is looks aren't everything. This book is related to every teen's problem. Hager has written a very inspiring novel.”
About the AuthorKrysten Lindsay Hager is the author of the Landry’s True Colors Series, a clean reads young adult series. Krysten writes about friendship, self-esteem, fitting in, middle school and high school, frenemies, modeling, crushes, values, and self-image in True Colors and Best Friends…Forever? as well as her standalone YA release, Next Door to a Star.
Krysten is an Amazon international bestselling author and book addict who has never met a bookstore she didn’t like. She’s worked as a journalist and writes middle grade, YA, humor essays, and adult fiction. She is originally from Michigan and has lived in Portugal, South Dakota, and currently resides in Southern Ohio where you can find her reading and writing when she’s not catching up on her favorite shows. She received her master’s degree from the University of Michigan-Flint.
There is a tour wide giveaway for the book blitz of Best Friends…Forever? These are the prizes you can win:
- a signed copy of Next Door to a Star by Krysten Lindsay Hager (US Only)
- a kindle e-copy of Next Door to a Star by Krysten Lindsay Hager (INT)
Thanks for being on the tour!
ReplyDelete