Title: Dating the It Guy
Author: Krysten Lindsay Hager
Author: Krysten Lindsay Hager
Publication Date: March 21st, 2017
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary
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“A sweet, endearing
story—you’ll fall in love with Emme just like I did!” --Kimber Leigh Wheaton,
YA/NA author
"Hager's
authentic characters will resonate with readers of all ages as they are
immersed in the story - complete with
teen drama and angst, but also the relationships which make it all
worthwhile." -- Leslie L. McKee,
book reviewer, Edits and Reviews by Leslie
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.
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.”
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.
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