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Cry Baby by Ginger Scott
A Contemporary Young Adult Romance
Release day: June 22, 2018
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“Cry 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-man stole my heart and I don't want it back.”- L.J. Shen, Bestselling Author

Blurb:
Tristan Lopez is loyal to his brothers. He doesn’t 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.


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’s gun. Loyal even though his mom begged him to run the moment she returned home from rehab.


He thought about becoming someone else. It was hard not to crave the life of a regular 17-year-old. It’s the only reason he stayed in school—to pretend. But he always fell back in line.


Loyal.


Riley Rojas didn’t belong in Tristan’s 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.


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—better 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.


He couldn’t ask her to leave because she’d only dig her heels in deeper. He couldn’t ask because he didn’t want her to go. She was blurring his lines. She was testing his loyalty.


He was falling in love.


And it was going to tear him apart.







About the Author:


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, In Your Dreams, The Hard Count, Hold My Breath, and A Boy Like You.

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).

Social Media Links:
Twitter: @TheGingerScott

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Four Stars

 This book was so much more than boy meets girl. It was a book about survival, overcoming impossible odds, and growing up despite your upbringing. 

Tristan lives in a dangerous neighborhood which is run by the Fifty-Seven gang. He was born into the gang, and he will die in the gang. However, he still have a nagging feeling that things shouldn't be that way. Maybe, just maybe, he could change his fate. 

Riley is an amazing basketball player with no where to play. When she tries to play with the neighborhood boys, she has to prove she belongs. 

As Tristan and Riley's friendship continues, you can see Tristan's character shift. He starts to realize that may he can have the good even though he is bad. 

I cannot get over the emotional journey of this book. It may be fictional, but Ginger made the details and situations real. You can just imagine this taking place in several neighborhoods across the country. 

Even though this story contains dual POVs, I felt like this was solely Tristan's story. He stole the show while Riley stayed in the background. His story of growth and determining self-worth is one not to be forgotten anytime soon.

So why the 4 stars? I really wanted to rate it 5 stars; I did! Unfortunately, the end fell flat for me. There was so much of a build up throughout the whole book, and then it just ended. There are so many unanswered questions and scenarios that play out in my head. I really wish the epilogue had given us more details into what happens in these character's future. 

-An ARC was generously given in exchange for an honest review.-

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