In Over Head
Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety
The Cecily
Taylor Series #2
by Krysten Lindsay Hager
Genre: YA Contemporary Fiction
Release Date: September 3rd 2019
Clean Reads Publishing
Summary:
Cecily feels like she has it all: great best friends, the beginnings of a career as a model/actress, and she’s dating her favorite singer, Andrew Holiday. Then Cecily’s best friend Lila begins to ditch her every time Lila’s boyfriend calls. Cecily feels lost, but she and Andrew begin connecting more and she’s never been in a relationship where she felt so understood. Andrew even begins to confide in her about his anxiety. Soon Cecily experiences her own anxiety on a magazine photo shoot, but she manages to impress the magazine staff. Just when it seems like all her dreams are coming true, everything comes crashing down when a photo of Andrew with another girl appears online. He swears nothing happened, but Cecily is crushed. She feels like she’s lost two of the people closest to her. Was her perfect relationship real or was she in over her head?
by Krysten Lindsay Hager
Genre: YA Contemporary Fiction
Release Date: September 3rd 2019
Clean Reads Publishing
Summary:
Cecily feels like she has it all: great best friends, the beginnings of a career as a model/actress, and she’s dating her favorite singer, Andrew Holiday. Then Cecily’s best friend Lila begins to ditch her every time Lila’s boyfriend calls. Cecily feels lost, but she and Andrew begin connecting more and she’s never been in a relationship where she felt so understood. Andrew even begins to confide in her about his anxiety. Soon Cecily experiences her own anxiety on a magazine photo shoot, but she manages to impress the magazine staff. Just when it seems like all her dreams are coming true, everything comes crashing down when a photo of Andrew with another girl appears online. He swears nothing happened, but Cecily is crushed. She feels like she’s lost two of the people closest to her. Was her perfect relationship real or was she in over her head?
Excerpt:
“Good
luck at the photo shoot tomorrow,” he said. “You’ll be great.”
I
stared out the window on the ride back to the hotel taking in all the sites. As
I walked into the hotel I felt a new air of confidence. Instead of just reading
about someone going out with a pop star to some fabulous rooftop hotel
restaurant and being in the big city, I was living it. This was my life and not
some YA book heroine’s. Tomorrow I was off on a modeling shoot. I was living a
dream and proving how I was ready for a big life. This was my destiny. I could
do this.
****
My
alarm went off and at the same time an alarm went off in my brain saying, no, I
could not do this. What was I thinking? Me, model? That’s where people take
photos of you for the sole purpose of other people looking at them, which
encouraged judgement and evil comments. People don’t just keep those comments
to themselves anymore. Oh no, they grab their phone or laptop or whatever device
helps them spew out unhelpful and cruel comments on people’s appearances online
for all the world to see.
My
stomach felt like spewing all over the nice hotel sheets I was wrapped in. Why did I ever think I was up for this? Those
strangers online would destroy me within seconds. Girls like Harlow who were
born with an undeniable beauty could do stuff like this and even then, I had
seen strangers criticize her online when she posted selfies.
Being
anxious always made all my senses go nuts. I ate two slices of toast and then
my stomach did a weird flipping thing. Oh no, not today. Looking over at the
clock I realized it was almost time for us to leave. Come on, stomach. You’re
fine. Just relax and…nope, time to hit the bathroom. Why can’t I just be a big
girl and go to this stupid shoot which most girls would kill to do without my
stomach freaking out?
Purchase on Amazon
About the Author
Krysten
Lindsay Hager is an obsessive reader and has never met a bookstore she didn’t
like. She’s worked as a journalist and humor essayist, and writes for teens,
tweens, and adults. She is also the author of the Landry’s True Colors Series (True
Colors, Best Friends…Forever?, and the soon to be released, Landry in
Like) and her work has been featured in USA Today and named as Amazon’s #1
Hot New Releases in Teen & Young Adult Values and Virtues Fiction and
Amazon’s #1 Hot New Releases in Children’s Books on Values. She’s originally
from Michigan and has lived in South Dakota, Portugal, and southwestern Ohio.
She received her master’s degree from the University of Michigan-Flint.
Author
Links:
Blog Tour Organized by:
0 comments:
Post a Comment