My Friday Love – Flirting with Maybe and Undone

Posted 22 March, 2013 by Danny in Blog, Danny, Friday Love, Meme / 9 Comments

Happy Friday Welcome to our Friday Feature!

My Friday Love

My Friday Love is a weekly  where we randomly share what bookish love we want to talk about! .

My Friday Love is…

*Novella’s that make us swoon and wish for more*

Yes I see that this is a pretty long title, but.. I have a point to make!

You all know my big confessed and shameless love of Wendy Higgins right?!?! And this wonderful Lady just published a short Contemporary YA story which is so insanely cute that we must talk about it!!

Flirting with Maybe by 

out now , get a copy from amazon and add it to goodreads

He was fifteen and she was seventeen. 

When sophomore Ryan “The Kid” McPhearson makes the Varsity baseball team, he finds himself submersed into the life of upperclassmen, and falling in love with senior Brooke Bennet. To Ryan she’s his dream girl, perfect. Maybe to the outside world a two-year age difference doesn’t matter, but this is high school. Everything matters.

Ryan soon realizes Brooke’s life is not so perfect. He becomes her closest friend, her safe place to fall when she needs to escape. Ryan seems to be benched in the friend zone with no chance to bat.

Time is both a curse and a blessing. It ushers Brooke away to college, and Ryan into the arms of his first girlfriend. It alters Ryan from a kid to a high school graduate, ready to venture to college himself. But when Ryan sees Brooke again he realizes there are some things even time can’t touch.

Though much has changed, one question still remains. Will the things that mattered in high school always stand between them?

(A contemporary/realistic fiction novella available only as an ebook)

Seriously guys! You must read this one! It was cute, sexy, fun and amazing!  Wendy Higgins proved that she not only is able to write awesometastic YA Paranormal Novels but also Contemporary YA! Also, it’s so unique!!! He’s so much younger than she is… and Girls – you will all fall heavily for Ryan! I did! During this short Novella we follow Ryan growing up and still being helplessly in love with this older girl. It’s heartbreaking, cute and romantic!

Treat yourself with this cuteness!

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Then, I have another short awesomeness to share with you –

You might (or probably might not) remember how insanely I loved Unraveling last year! It totally blew me away and I loved every second:

Quote from my 5 star Review: 

Elizabeth Norris created with Unraveling a thrilling tale that is full of intrigue, suspense, drama, heartbreak and sweet love, perfected with beautiful and wonderful characters that will need a place in your heart! Unraveling took my by surprise, I loved every second I spend between those pages and that I spend with Janelle, Ben and Jared. It was full of twists and turns, I didn’t see coming and twists that broke my heart! Don’t miss out on this unique and fresh YA story with a wonderful mix of genres!

So since I am waiting rather impatiently for Unbreakable to come out, here is a Novella that makes me want to have this book in my hands right-now!!! 

And even more fantastic, these are stories told from Ben’s POV!!! *swoon*

Undone by 

Series: Unraveling #1.5 –

Unbreakable – Book 2 comes out April 23rd

Before the accident. Before their universes collided. Before they fell in love.

Riveting and romantic, Undone: An Unraveling Novella contains three short stories set in the world of Unraveling, the first book in the gripping sci-fi duology by Elizabeth Norris.

Before Ben Michaels saved Janelle Tenner’s life, Janelle saved Ben when he stumbled through an interuniverse portal into a completely new world. That day, he fell in love with the girl of his dreams. And he never forgot her.

Through three stories told from Ben’s point of view, learn how Ben and his friends discovered their ability to travel between worlds, how Ben first met Janelle, and how he pined for her for years before he actually got the chance to meet her, save her life, and capture her heart. And find out what happens to Ben between the cliff-hanger conclusion to Unraveling and the beginning of its heart-stopping sequel, Unbreakable.

annnd, it’s getting even more exciting.. because I have a small Teaser/Excerpt for you:

From ” After I Left Her”

We came home at night.

For a split second my lungs burned, my skin felt like ice, and then my knees hit concrete hard. Around me everything was dark, but it didn’t matter, because all I could see was Janelle. The wind moved through her hair, her eyes wet with tears, her hands dark with blood. Her voice echoed in my head: the quiet desperation in the way she said my name before I left her there. I held onto that moment, willed my mind to burn it into my memory. I didn’t want to forget what we’d just been through. I didn’t want to forget even a second that I’d spent with her.

It all had just ended in the canyon behind Park Village. Reid was dead. Janelle’s friend Alex was dead. And Eli and I had just left Janelle and portaled home. In the end, what we’d tried so hard to do for seven years, happened in an instant.

My throat was tight. My whole body ached. I didn’t want to leave her. I shouldn’t have left her, but I had to.

I pushed to my feet and looked around. We were in the middle of a neighborhood street, surrounded by dark sleepy houses.

“Where are we?” Eli said as the wind picked up.

I waited. At first I wasn’t sure. Square patches of lawn and small single family homes were everywhere.

Then I heard the wooden wind chimes.

My chest tightened. That sound. I hadn’t realized how much I’d missed hearing it. I turned around, recognizing the oak tree on my parents’ front lawn. It seemed somehow both bigger and smaller than I had remembered it: a tower outside my bedroom window.

“This is my house,” I said. As my eyes adjusted, I picked out the red bricks around the garage, the white front door, the blue aluminum siding, the black shutters on the windows.

“Holy shit,” Eli said. Then he laughed, reached over, and pulled me in a headlock. “This is your house!” he screamed.

A wave of excitement moved through me. This was my house. Those bricks were the ones I cracked my head against when I was seven. I had stolen Derek’s remote control car and he wrestled me to get it back. He pushed me and I fell. That front door, we had repainted it white with my dad. The oak tree was the same as the one I looked out at every night when I went to sleep, the same one I tried to climb. I had hung those wooden wind chimes after making them in school.

Nothing had changed.

I wasn’t sure how Taylor Barclay knew to send us here. Sure he was some high up Interverse Agent who was policing the universes, but I hadn’t expected him to deliver us right to my doorstep. The how and the why didn’t matter though. I didn’t care.

My parents were inside sleeping in that house right now.

I pulled away from Eli and jogged up the driveway. As I reached the front door, I paused.

“What are you waiting for,” Eli said, reaching out to knock.

I grabbed his hand. “We need to remember this moment,” I said. We’d waited for this moment forever, and now we were finally here. But not all of us. Reid wasn’t here, and no matter what he had done or how it had ended, he had been part of this. Janelle and Alex had been a part of it too. We wouldn’t have gotten here without them.

Even though it might have seemed ridiculous, we needed to pause and memorize these details. I wanted to be able to tell Janelle about all of it. She loved me enough to know I needed this moment, and I wasn’t going to lose that. Our goodbye wasn’t forever. I would find a way back to her. I knew that as much as I knew anything. We were both still alive. Just in different places.

I thought about Alex and Reid.

“Reid’s parents,” I said. I wanted to be able to tell them what this moment was like too.

Eli knew what I was thinking. “We can’t tell them what he did.”

I shook my head. We couldn’t. They deserved to remember him better than that. We could tell them this though. We could tell them that the night was silent, the darkness almost heavy as if the whole world was asleep. The only sounds were our own excited breaths.

I knocked on the door.

It wasn’t like in a movie. A light never flicked on. I didn’t know when she was coming. I had to keep knocking, and I had to knock hard, until my knuckles felt numb because of it.

Finally after what seemed like minutes I heard the locks click on the other side of the door.

A woman in a gray long-sleeved shirt and checkered blue and white pajama pants stood behind it. She was tall, her hair cut short around her head.

My mother.

Over seven years. Twenty six hundred and thirty seven days. That’s how long it had been. All of that time had added up to just one single wish: that I would get back to her, that I would see her again. I’d envisioned what she would say to me, what I would say to her.

In the end I didn’t need to say anything. She glanced at Eli and then back to me. Her mouth parted, her eyes widened, and she gasped.

I opened my mouth to explain, but she reached through the door, reaching out to my face, as if she wasn’t quite sure I was real. Then she started to cry.

I moved in, circling my arms around her, pulling her to my chest. She was smaller and thinner than I remembered. Her skin was soft and papery, and my chest contracted. Those seven years had been long for her.

When she pulled back to look at my face again, she shook her head.

I smiled. “I’m home.”

Get a copy from amazon and add it to your goodreads shelf

Yep.. I am pretty much excited right now!

Do you love Wendy Higgins? Will you read her Contemporary Novella? Do you know any more  YA books where the boy is older??  And how about Undone and Unbreakable… are you as excited as I am about these books? Did you love Unraveling? 

Much Friday Love,

P.S: Fitting to todays topic, tomorrows Discussed! post will focus in Novella’s 

 

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9 Responses to “My Friday Love – Flirting with Maybe and Undone”

  1. AHHHHHH!!! SO MUCH AWESOME IN THIS POST DANNY! I have Flirting with Maybe and can’t wait to get to it. Wendy Higgins can do no wrong in my eyes:) And UNDONE! *dies* I love me some Ben, so I absolutely cannot miss out on his POV. Thanks so much for sharing the excerpt 😉

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  2. OMG I seriously have to read some Wendy Higgins AND Unraveling! I feel like a failure for being so out of the loop! Lol Flirting with Maybe sounds adorable plus it’s a novella right? So a short sweet read is always fun and wasy to fit in an overfilled reading schedule >.<

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  3. Ahh I really want to check out that little novella by Wendy I read your review on Goodreads and it sounds like just the perfect little pick me up. Oh wow! I loved Unbreakable last year and I can’t wait for Unraveling. I didn’t know there was a novella releasing! Have a wonderful weekend, Danny!
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