Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Blog Tour: The Bad Boy's Girl by Blair Holden @BlairHoldenx @yaboundtourspr







The Bad Boy's Girl
by 
Blair Holden
Genre: YA Romance
Release Date: February 21st 2017

Summary:


Tessa O’Connell is a girl as ordinary as they come-or so she thinks. Her aim for senior year is to keep her head down yet somehow manage to convince her childhood love Jay Stone to love her back. What she isn’t prepared for is for Jay’s brother, Cole to return to town and change the life she’s always been seemingly content to live. Tall, gorgeous as all hell and a bad boy with ocean blue eyes and the perfect edge of adorability, he was her greatest tormentor, her number one enemy.But the guy that’s come back is like no one Tessa’s ever come across. He challenges her, he tests her limits, he forces her to bring out the girl she’s long ago buried under a veil of mediocrity and most of all he compels her to consider that perhaps the boy that infuriates her to the point of no return might just her guardian angel.


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Can you tell us a little bit about the characters in The Bad Boy's Girl?

I’ll start off with Cole because he’s always been a reader favourite and maybe mine as well. When I started writing the story and especially Cole’s character, I wanted to do something different with the concept of a bad boy. He’s definitely rough around the edges and has some of the quintessential bad boy characteristics but I like to think there’s so much more to him than being dark and broody. He’s a good guy at heart, someone who’s been in love with a girl for a very long time without expecting reciprocation. Cole is a protector, a great friend and someone who’s always willing to go the extra mile for the ones he loves. There’s a reason so many people fell in love with him and if you read the book you realise that one can’t help but do that. Tessa came a lot easier to me because there some aspects of her that were so relatable to me even then. She’s shy and insecure and keeps to herself but at the same time, once you get to know her you realise that there’s so much more to her than what you see. As she comes out her shell, you realise that Tessa is hilarious and witty, strong and someone every girl can identify with simply because of how she reacts to the ridiculous situations she finds herself in. Other characters include Tessa’s best friends, Beth Romano and Megan Sharp who’re both always fun to write about because they form such a contrast to Tessa. Beth is the edgy and cool character in the book and her life revolves around music. She’s someone who always says what’s on her mind and doesn’t let anyone tell her what to do. In Cole’s absence, it’s Beth who acts as a kind of protector for Tessa because no one dares mess with her. What I also love about Beth is her vulnerability which she seldom allows anyone to see and of course her killer fashion sense.I wanted to have an equally dynamic and strong love interest for Megan and that’s where Travis comes in. Travis, interestingly is the ‘fallen’ one, someone we see as having hit rock bottom at the beginning of the book. His story is closely entwined with Tessa and Beth and seeing how he rebuilds his life after losing all that he once considered important. It’s really rewarding to see him grow as a character and he’s one of my favourites for sure. Megan is Tessa’s other best friend and the book worm of the group. She’s super smart and ambitious but that doesn’t stop her from being empathetic or joining her friends when they get into trouble. I love writing about Megan because she starts off being such a goody two shoes but by the end of the book she learns to escape her parents’ hold and becomes her own person. It helps that she also finds a bad boy of her own. If the book were to have antagonists, they would be Nicole Bishop and Jay Stone. Nicole is Tessa’s infamous former best friend turned bully. She’s vindictive and petty and takes joy out of harassing Tessa and she’s committed the ultimate violation of the best friend code by stealing Tessa’s childhood crush Jay for her own. Jay ‘Jason’ Stone is also Cole’s stepbrother so there’s an obvious rivalry between the two for Tessa’s affections. The story is a lot about how Tessa is able to move past her feelings for Jay and is able to find it in herself to forgive Nicole so both these people are necessary for Tessa’s growth and for her relationship with Cole.



About the Author

BLAIR HOLDEN (@jessgirl93 on Wattpad) is a twenty-three-year-old college student by day and Wattpad author by night. Her hobbies include and are limited to obsessively scouring Goodreads and reading romance novels, with a preference for all things new adult. Her own work usually contains lots of romance, humor, angst, and brooding bad-boy heroes. Caffeine and late-night Gilmore Girls marathons help her find a balance between completing her degree and writing. She writes for herself and also to make readers swoon, laugh, and occasionally cry. Her book, THE BAD BOY’S GIRL, has amassed over 170 million reads, which absolutely baffles her. Her dream is to see her readers holding a published copy of her books and remembering how far they’ve come together!


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