Sunday, July 17, 2016

REVIEW TOUR: The Hard Count by Ginger Scott


Welcome to THE HARD COUNT review tour with Ginger Scott, hosted by Wordsmith Publicity. Be sure to check out all the participating blogs, reviews and enter the tour giveaway!
 



THE HARD COUNT
Mature YA Contemporary Romance-Stand Alone
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Goodreads:  http://bit.ly/1O7xc52

Google Play: http://bit.ly/29Bc3j4



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.



  




M Y   R E V I E W 
5/5 stars!
"Ginger Scott have ripped my heart out and put it back in before. She’s fed it with youthful feels and made me swoon twenty times a minute. She’s cracked my emotions in every way possible. But in The Hard Count , she’s unleashed a whole bunch of emotions and insights that are rarely palpable in a romance novel-- honor, equality, and the will to succeed. 

As a romance reader, I seek for full-blown romantic feels radiating on every page. But with The Hard Count , the romance was almost secondary but was never taken lightly. There was a palpable feeling between Nico and Reagan, drawing them together even when they were in two different situations. Miss Ginger did a wonderful job in settling the intensity of their feelings that enabled me to take other contexts at heart. I, a self-confessed sports imbecile, found the rush of every game addicting. I cheered, I hoorah!ed, and felt the pang of pain the players felt in between plays and practices. The rush was jumping out of every page and I can’t help but join in! But above all of the commotion, there was a timely message embedded in this book. When we’re stripped off of the stereotypes, we are very alike in more ways any of us will ever care admit. And when we accept differences, we could be so much stronger together. I loved this book so soooo much!"


G I V E A W A Y 
1 signed copy of In Your Dreams, $10 Amazon gift card
Open International

 


 




About Ginger Scott


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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