Title: Dating
the It Guy
Author: Krysten Lindsay Hager
Genre: YA contemporary romance
Published by Clean Reads
About the book:
Emme is a sophomore in high school who
starts dating, Brendon Agretti, the popular senior who happens to be a
senator's son and well-known for his good looks. Emme feels out of her comfort
zone in Brendon's world and it doesn't help that his picture perfect ex, Lauren
seems determined to get back into his life along with every other girl who
wants to be the future Mrs. Agretti. Emme is already conflicted due to the fact
her last boyfriend cheated on her and her whole world is off kilter with her
family issues. Life suddenly seems easier keeping Brendon away and relying on
her crystals and horoscopes to guide her. Emme soon starts to realize she needs
to focus less on the stars and more on her senses. Can Emme get over her
insecurities and make her relationship work? Life sure is complicated when
you're dating the it guy.
Book
trailer:
Excerpt:
He put the magazine between us, and when I
moved forward to see it, he put his arm across the back of my chair. Now lots
of guys did put their arms on chair backs, even Kirk did that with Rory, and he
definitely wasn’t interested in her, but I couldn’t help but hope it meant
something. I got this shivery feeling, and he asked if I was cold. I shook my
head. I always got a feeling before something major was about to happen, and it
has nothing to do with being cold, but I didn’t know why I got the feeling.
Grandma used to do the same thing and always said, “Somebody just walked across
my grave.” Somehow I didn’t think Brendon would understand if I told him I
needed to move my future burial plot to a less high-traffic area.
“Are we still on for the art fair?” he
asked.
I had only been circling it with hearts on my
calendar since he asked.
“Sure, I think I’m still free,” I said.
We finished up our work, and he walked me
out to meet Kylie.
“Okay, I’ll pick you up at three tomorrow,”
he said, walking off.
“Can I ask a stupid question?” Kylie asked
as soon as Brendon was out of earshot. “What’s he like? Because he’s so
well-known, and I can’t imagine what it’d be like to grow up with your whole
life under a microscope. I mean, my mom remembers his first birthday party
pictures being shown on the news. And he’s hot, but he’s not like
I-know-I’m-a-hottie hot, but more like a confident, ‘Yes, I am hot. Any
questions?’ I mean, he has to have noticed there aren’t any guys who look like
him walking around.”
“I should tell him what you said.”
“Don’t you dare,” Kylie said.
“I get what you mean—he’s grown up with
everybody knowing his dad and watching him, but he’s pretty down to earth.”
“So what’s up with you two? You guys didn’t
do any work last Saturday, and now you’re going to an art fair.”
“I dunno. He just asked me to go with him.”
“Asked you to go with him as his study
buddy or asked you to go with him because he’s desperately in love with you?”
she asked.
I said we were just friends, but she
wouldn’t let it go.
“Okay, duh, obviously I like him, but let’s
be honest. He’s out of my league. He’s out of most people’s league. It’s weird
because normally if I like a guy then one of two things happens—either he likes
me and asks for my number…or I find out he’s not into me and I cry in my pillow
and listen to man-hating music for at least three days,” I said. “But this
time’s different because he’s, I dunno, not just ‘some guy.’ I mean, I’m not
putting up a shrine to him in my room, and I haven’t rooted though his garbage
can, but I have as much chance of going out with him as Kirk does of getting an
‘A’ in this class.”
“You listen to man-hating music?” she
asked, and I narrowed my eyes at her. “Whatever. Anyway, Em, he’s asked you out
once already, and you are seeing him tomorrow. Plus, he’s always staring at
you.”
I said he was probably just bored in class
today, but she wouldn’t let it go.
“I’m not just talking about today. When we
watched the movie on Monday, he watched you instead, and whenever I see you
guys, he acts like there’s no one else in the room,” she said.
I couldn’t hold back the big, stupid smile
spreading across my face. “He does? For real?”
She nodded. “You know, it’s weird. Here you
were all upset you didn’t have a partner at the beginning of the semester, and
then you ended up with like, Mr. Perfection, as your partner.”
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About the Author:
Besides mining her teen years and humiliating
moments for her novels, Krysten is a also a book addict who has never met a
bookstore she didn’t like. She’s worked as a journalist and writes young adult,
middle grade, new adult, and adult fiction as well as humor essays. She is
originally from Michigan and has lived in Portugal, South Dakota, and currently
resides in southwestern Ohio where you can find her reading and writing when
she’s not catching up on her favorite shows (she's addicted to American Dad to
the point where she quotes episodes on a daily basis and also loves Girl Meets
World). She's also a third generation Detroit Lions fan.
Krysten writes about friendship,
self-esteem, fitting in, frenemies, crushes, fame, first loves, and values. She
is the author of True Colors, Best Friends...Forever?, Next Door to a Star, Landry in Like, and Competing with the Star
(The Star Series: Book 2). Her debut novel, True Colors, won the Readers
Favorite award for best preteen book. Krysten's work has been featured in USA
Today, The Flint Journal, the Grand Haven Tribune, the Beavercreek Current, the
Bellbrook Times and on Living Dayton.
Connect with Krysten:
Website: http://www.krystenlindsay.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/krystenlindsay/
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/krystenlindsay/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/KrystenLindsay
