Thanks to FFBC Tours for including me on the Blink Summer Reading Tour.
Pretty In Punxsutawney
by Laurie Boyle Crompton
Publisher: Blink
Release date: January 22, 2019
Genre: Young Adult -- Contemporary, Romance
Summary: A mashup of Groundhog
Day and Pretty in Pink, the book stars a senior who is
forced to relive the first day at her new school in an endless loop. Andie is
convinced she needs true love's kiss to break the curse, but instead discovers
how a high school filled with cliques and misfits can find common ground despite
everyone's differences.
BOOK LINKS
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36168849-pretty-in-punxsutawney
Amazon: https://amzn.to/2rdEb48
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/pretty-in-punxsutawney-laurie-boyle-crompton/1128209537?#/
Book Depository: https://www.bookdepository.com/Pretty-in-Punxsutawney-Laurie-Boyle-Crompton/9780310762164
IndieBound: https://www.indiebound.org/search/book?keys=Pretty+in+Punxsutawney
Review: A quick contemporary read that provides ALOT of second-hand embarrassment. Andie lives her life like a teen rom-com as they are her favorite kind of movies. She has just moved to a new town and instantly becomes infatuated with the "popular" guy who she befriends and thinks is going to be her true love and give her first kiss to.
The mom was a quirky character who seemed still stuck in her teenage life and was living vicariously through her daughter. Who the hell calls it a date when the guy who the daughter has an unhealthy obsession with drives her to school on the first day. This mom who is stuck in the '80s with her thrift store bargain dresses and pink leather couch.
I got Pretty in Pink meets Mean Girls. It was cringy throughout and I felt my cheeks getting hot and blushing for this character who is not very smart in choices. The one thing I did hate about this book is how she and Colton acted towards the goth and emo cliques. I hung out with those crowds in high school and I am still very good friends with most of them to this day.
Laurie
Boyle Crompton is the YA author of the upcoming PRETTY IN PUNXSUTAWNEY
(Blink/HarperCollins 2019) as well as ADRENALINE CRUSH (Macmillan/2014,
Square Fish/2016), BLAZE (or Love in the Time of Supervillains), THE REAL PROM
QUEENS OF WESTFIELD HIGH and LOVE AND VANDALISM (Sourcebooks/2013, 2014,
2017). Growing up in ‘Pennsyltucky’ in the 1980s, Laurie couldn't wait to
escape rural life. After saving up her tips from waitressing at
a local greasy spoon at 18 she packed up her acid wash jeans
and moved to NY. Where everyone else had stopped wearing acid wash.
She graduated
first in her class from St. John’s University with a BA in English
and Journalism. Since then she’s written for national magazines like
ALLURE, survived a teaching stint at an all-boy high school, and
appeared on Good Day New York several times as a Toy Expert. And yes, ‘toy
expert’ is an actual profession. Really.
She
has lived in places like Orlando, Florida where she and her husband spent
all of their spare time and money visiting theme parks before moving
to the Cotswolds in England for six months, which was every bit as cool as
that sounds. The Cromptons are now back in New York where their two children
resent never going to Disney.
Laurie occasionally
enjoys hanging out in fields of blooming flowers and
also refering to herself in the third person.
Links:
Website: https://www.lboylecrompton.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lbcrompton
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lbcrompton/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/laurie.b.crompton
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Here, Pretty In Punxsutawney, and Swing by Kwame Alexander) (USA)
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Ends: 8/9/19
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