Dating the It Guy by Krysten Lindsay Hager - Book Blitz
Emme
starts dating a popular high school student who happens to be from a famous
political family. It seems like everyone at school either wants to be Brendon
Agretti or date him. Emme feels out of her comfort zone in Brendon's world and
it doesn't help that his picture-perfect ex 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 dumped her and
her whole world is off kilter with her grandparents’ health issues. Life
suddenly seems easier pushing 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.
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Excerpt
In this scene, Brendon and Emme go
out and she picks up a numerology book and wants to see if they’re considered
compatible. We see her leaning on things like horoscopes, astrology, etc.
instead of listening to her heart, but that changes as the book goes on.
I was trying
to think of an excuse to ask him when his birthday was so I could use the
numerology book on him. I decided to bring the book out to see what he’d say about
it. He picked it up and started flipping through it.
“You’re into
this stuff?” he asked.
“My grandma
got me into it. She told me about this actress whose mother was into numerology
and how the mother told her they shouldn’t get on this plane because of the
flight number and her age—just all these numbers seemed unlucky and then the
plane ended up crashing,” I said.
“Wow, pretty
hardcore and creepy. Hey, it says you can find your destiny,” he said. “How do
you do it?”
“There are
different ways to figure stuff out, but the easiest one is to add up your month,
birth date, and the whole year to figure out your birth number,” I said.
He pulled out
a pen and started adding it up on his napkin. I saw his birth date and realized
he was a Cancer—just like I suspected. Thankfully, he wasn’t a Sagittarius like
John. I was convinced all Sags couldn’t settle down.
“Do I add the
one and nine from the year, too?” he asked. I nodded. “Okay, I’m a three, so
what does that mean?”
I flipped to
the page on threes. I was more interested in knowing how threes and fives (my
number) matched up, compatibility-wise, but I didn’t want to freak him out with
that.
“Okay, it
says you’re intelligent and used to getting your way. You have a great need to
be loved and for emotional attachment,” I said, leaving out the part where it
said you could
wind up jumping from relationship to
relationship if you didn’t find the right person. “It also says that you are
energetic and you don’t worry about the future.”
“Well, that
part’s not true. I’m panicking over college applications and where I’m going to
end up next year. What does yours say?” he asked.
Mine stressed
how important freedom and ambition was, but I decided not to share that since
he was a Cancer and stability and loyalty were important to them. There was a
huge paragraph about number fives, but I just read him the good parts about my
“sparkling personality,” “generous nature,” and “warm sense of humor.” Next, we
did the personal year ones where we added up the birth month and date with the
current year. My birthday was in August, so mine was about to change, but
Brendon had just had his birthday, and he was in his number two year
“Let me read
it,” he said, pulling the book away from me. In a perfect world, it would say
we were soul mates, and he’d fall madly in love with me.
“Emme, listen
to this, ‘This could be the year you find the right person. Love could be right
around the corner, so take a chance. All your relationships will strengthen
now, so go out and meet new people because the number two year is a partnership
year,’” he said, as my heart shot up like it was on an elevator. “Hmmm…nothing
about colleges, though.”
Thank you,
Mr. Romance. Didn’t he see how fate was practically giving him a neon sign
saying I was the one? Okay, maybe not neon, but pretty close. He asked what
year I was in, and
I explained I was in my number five
year, but it would change in August.
“It says, ‘A
number five year often involves you meeting your soul mate. Sometimes these
romances hit rough waters, but this will clear up by the time your sixth year
rolls around. Five is a symbol of chance, so something could catch you
off-guard, but it will be a turning point in your life,’” he said as he lowered
the book. “So did you meet your soul mate this year?”
“Working on
it,” I said.
When he got
up to get a bottle of water, I flipped to the section on compatibility and
checked how threes and fives matched up.
“Number eight
couples: You are both intrigued by each other’s intellectual side—” Boring.
“It’s as if you’ve met your match and you feel as if someone ‘gets you’ for the
first time.” Here we go! “You’ll see excitement in new things and feel like the
universe is opening to you. It’s like walking on air, and nothing seems out of
reach. Everything is flowing for you—” Perfect. “—just don’t sabotage it with
negativity, jealousy, or low self-esteem.” Crap. “Work problems out instead of
running from them. Patience, compromise, and understanding your partner’s core
beliefs are important. People may question if it’ll last, but if you hang in
there,
you can discover a close bond.”
Well, the
last part wasn’t the sunshine and rainbows I had hoped for, but things were
looking up. I wish I could tell if he was into me. If only I could get a
straightforward sign or something. Anything. I mean, in my perfect world, he’d
be holding my hand and writing me poetry, but he didn’t seem like a
poem-writing, touchy-feely kind of guy. However, minutes later, when we were
leaving and walking out, Brendon saw his friend Sam. He went to
cross the street and grabbed my
hand—just like I had visualized a zillion times. My heart jumped. I mean, he
only held it for a second, and it was just to lead me across the street, but it
was still Brendon holding my hand.
Author
Bio – Krysten
Lindsay Hager writes about friendship, self-esteem, fitting in, frenemies,
crushes, fame, first loves, and values. She is the author of the young adult
Cecily Taylor Series, the young adult Star Series, Dating the It Guy,
and the preteen Landry’s True Colors Series.
Her debut
novel, True Colors, won the Readers Favorite award for best preteen book and
the Dayton Book Expo Bestseller Award for children/teens. Competing with the
Star is a Readers' Favorite Book Award Finalist. Best Friends...Forever? is a
2019 Readers' Favorite Silver Medal Winner in the Children - Preteen genre.
Landry in Like is a Literary Classics Gold Medal recipient and a 2020 Readers'
Favorite Bronze Medal Winner. She received her BA in English and master's
degree in liberal studies from the University of Michigan-Flint.
Krysten's
work has been featured in USA Today, The Flint Journal, the Grand Haven
Tribune, the Beavercreek Current, the Bellbrook Times, Springfield News-Sun,
Grand Blanc View, Dayton Daily News and on Living Dayton.
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