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\u201cCry Baby is brilliantly written. It’s hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking and will leave you thinking about it for days afterward. Bravo, Ms. Scott. This boy-<\/em>man stole my heart and I don’t want it back.\u201d – L.J. Shen, Bestselling Author<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tristan Lopez is loyal to his brothers. He doesn\u2019t really have a choice, born into a gang that has a chokehold on every kid that roams its streets. He gave his life to them willingly, knowing if he did then one day this kingdom, led by boys drunk with power and ruled by fear, would all be his.<\/p>\n He was loyal through it all. Loyal when prison took his dad away. Loyal when his face was touched by the cold metal of the rival gang\u2019s gun. Loyal even though his mom begged him to run the moment she returned home from rehab.<\/p>\n He thought about becoming someone else. It was hard not to crave the life of a regular 17-year-old. It\u2019s the only reason he stayed in school\u2014to pretend. But he Loyal.<\/p>\n Riley Rojas didn\u2019t belong in Tristan\u2019s real world. She should have only been part of the fantasy, one of the many faces he got to pretend with amidst rows of metal chairs and desks and whiteboards with assignments. But there she was, moving boxes from the back of an old pick-up into a house Tristan had shot up on a dare with his friends only a few months before.<\/p>\n Tall enough to look him in the eyes and strong enough to fill his shadow, Riley took up space on his streets, her loud mouth fearless in the face of the gang leaders who terrified everyone else. She pushed Tristan around on the hard court, and she balled better than his friends\u2014better than him sometimes. She challenged him. She needed him. He liked it. And when her pale blue eyes stared into his, he quit wanting to pretend.<\/p>\n He couldn\u2019t ask her to leave because she\u2019d only dig her heels in deeper. He couldn\u2019t ask because he didn\u2019t want her to go. She was blurring his lines. She was testing his loyalty.<\/p>\n He was falling in love.<\/p>\n And it was going to tear him apart.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 4.5 stars!<\/b><\/p>\n Wow, I loved this book. Beautifully written and gutwrenchingly emotional, it\u2019s a heartbreaking glimpse into suburban gang life through the eyes of an amazing 17-year-old boy. It\u2019s real and raw, with a gorgeous love story, a really special read that held me absolutely captivated, and I loved it!<\/p>\n Tristan Lopez was born and raised in the gang that was started by his father. Even though it eventually took his father\u2019s life and sent his mother spiralling into drug use and eventual rehab, Tristan stayed loyal. But secretly he craved a life away from the violence, wanting to be a normal 17 year old with hopes of having a real life someday.<\/p>\n I knew every bit of this was wrong. I know it\u2019s wrong. I hate it. I hate my fate. It\u2019s there, though. I\u2019m married to it because of the place I was born, the man who fathered me, his friends and his choices, and my mother\u2019s weaknesses. All I can do is make the most of it, and maybe find a little happiness somewhere on the fringes.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Riley Rojas moves in just down the road from Tristan, and he is immediately drawn to her. They share a few \u2018moments\u2019 but when the strong and feisty girl shows up in gang turf, he knows he needs to push her away for her own safety.<\/p>\n I\u2019m walking two paths beginning right this minute, and I can\u2019t let them cross. The collision would be deadly. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Riley\u2019s passion is for basketball. She has mad skills, and when she heads down to the local court to try and get a game, she is completely ignored and shamed. What makes it worse is that it\u2019s by the boy she had begun to crush on, who completely dismissed her. When the two of them end up in the same classes at school, they are forced into spending time together, they bond over their shared love of basketball, and it doesn\u2019t take too long for Riley\u2019s fearless bravery to overcome Tristan\u2019s reservations as she boldly stands up to him, demanding his attention.<\/p>\n \u201cYou are my test, Riley. My temptation. My mother says you\u2019re the light, and I want to stand in it with you, but\u2026\u201d I freaking love Riley! She\u2019s loveable, relatable, and incredibly fierce in a way that I admire so much. Her determination to be a part of Tristan\u2019s life, despite the danger, is just gorgeous, and I love that she bravely takes his hand and guides him into the realisation that he can be so much more.<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t have to take this job, Tristan\u2026the one that says you\u2019re a <\/i>bad guy. It doesn\u2019t suit you.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n And Tristan, whose whole life has been about doing what he has to in order to survive, is so ready for it. He\u2019s scared, but he can\u2019t hold back from the girl who has started to capture his heart.<\/p>\n \u201cYou\u2019re unlike any other girl. You make me wish things were different, that I was different.\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n It\u2019s a beautiful love story that develops in spite of the dangers, and I loved the honesty and intensity of all that they felt for each other.<\/p>\n \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t do things like this with a guy like me,\u201d he says, his voice rough but the pleading tone evident still. He hates himself, and he\u2019s denying himself, but I see more than the boy in a gang. But when the realities of Tristan\u2019s world become all-too real, everything will change and neither of their lives will be the same again.<\/p>\n I really loved this story. It\u2019s heartbreaking, but it needed to be as the realities of Tristan\u2019s life were revealed. The story twists and turns, and I appreciated the surprises and unexpected direction of Tristan and Riley\u2019s journeys, and I thought the way it all played out was realistic and really well done. Would I have liked to see more? Of course I would! But there\u2019s something \u2018right\u2019 about the way that Scott finished this story, it fit in with the book, and with the extraordinary story of these incredible characters. I finished it feeling very satisfied, and so so glad that I got to experience it all with them.<\/p>\n Riley has opened this window to what could be. She\u2019s built a bridge between my reality and my fantasyland, and I can\u2019t stop crossing it. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n A fantastic read \u2013 4.5 stars.<\/p>\n An Advanced Review Copy was generously provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.<\/i><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A sucker for a good romance, Ginger\u2019s other passion is sports, and she often blends the two in her stories. (She\u2019s also a sucker for a hot quarterback, catcher, pitcher, point guard\u2026the 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\u00a0http:\/\/www.littlemisswrite.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n When she\u2019s not writing, the odds are high that she\u2019s 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 \u2019em, Devils).<\/p>\n FACEBOOK<\/a>\u00a0 |\u00a0 PINTEREST<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0YOUTUBE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0GOOGLE<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0GOODREADS<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0WEBSITE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’re celebrating the release of CRY BABY by Ginger Scott! One-Click today! Amazon\u00a0 |\u00a0 Google Play\u00a0 |\u00a0 Kobo\u00a0 |\u00a0 Nook\u00a0 |\u00a0 iBooks \u201cCry Baby is brilliantly written. 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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<\/a>, You and Everything After, The Girl I Was Before, Wild Reckless<\/a>, Wicked Restless, In Your Dreams, The Hard Count<\/a> and Hold My Breath<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.escapistbookblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/unnamed.png?resize=156%2C156\")
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