I am so
excited to share the blog tour for The Queen B* and the Homecoming King, the
third book in Crista McHugh's The Queen B* series. I have an excerpt and a
giveaway to share with you all, so stay tuned!
Title: The Queen B* and the Homecoming KingAuthor: Crista McHugh
My rating: 4.1 hearts
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Publication date: December 1st 2015
Synopsis: The Queen B*, Alexis Wyndham, has only three rules when it comes to dating that star quarterback, Brett Pederson:
1. No obligations to spend every waking moment with each other.
2. No public displays of affection while at Eastline High.
3. And absolutely, under no circumstances, will she ever go to the Homecoming dance.
But as her life is completely upended time and time again, she begins to wonder if some rules are meant to be broken.
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My
thoughts: It was better than I’d expected. After reading the second book, I
guess I didn’t have too high expectations, so I was happily surprised. It
wasn’t as good as the first book, but it was close.
Alexis goes through some major character
development throughout this series, and especially this book. At first, she
seems pretty hesitant about officially dating Brett, she sets up a bunch of
rules about their relationship, like no PDA. She refuses to hang out with him
if he’s with his friends.
But throughout the book, she changes a lot.
She’s not the same person at the end of this book as she was in the beginning
of the series, and you know how much I love character development. It was also
interesting to read about her change. It didn’t happen overnight, but it
happened throughout three books. It took time, and that’s part of why I loved
it so much. Character development can be great, if used correctly. If it
happens overnight, it’s not believable, because no one can go through such a
change in a day, or even a few days. It takes time.
The plot was a little slow at the beginning,
but when things started happening, it felt like everything happened at once,
and it felt like it was a little too quick, like maybe the ending could’ve been
a little later or something.
And there was a mystery again! Yay! Sure, it
wasn’t as good as the one in Confessions
of a Queen B*, and it was so predictable, but it was still nice after the
boring plot in The Queen B* Strikes Back.
This time, though, it’s Alexis’s friend, Richard, who is targeted because he’s
gay, and Alexis has to find whoever is responsible and put it on her blog, The Eastline Spy.
To sum it up, it was a fun and interesting
read, and, although a little quick, definitely worth reading.
Exerpt:
I'd
never greeted a Monday morning with dozens of giddy butterflies in my stomach.
Usually, I reserved my most dramatic sighs and biting comments for Mondays
because—let's face it—they suck. But this Monday morning was different.
I,
Alexis Wyndham, was officially Brett Pederson's girlfriend.
But
I still wasn't ready to announce that to the world.
As
we floated in a canoe among the water lilies in Lake Washington yesterday, I
lay down a few ground rules to help me ease into this unprecedented (and
unimaginable) situation. After all, it's not every day the Queen B* and the
Quarterback become a couple. Dropping that bomb on our classmates could cause a
rift in the space-time continuum.
Or
at least cause my nemesis, Summer Hoyt, to have one very public and dramatic
meltdown.
Rule
number one: I refused to be one of those disgustingly cute couples that were
joined at the hip between classes. We were dating, not merging our lives and
identities into a single life-form. Brett had his group of friends and I had
mine, and until recently, they never intertwined because I despised most of the
in-crowd. If I hadn't gotten to know the real Brett during a class project, I
would've continued to write him off as a dumb jock.
Lesson
learned, but still…
Rule
number two: no public displays of affection at school. Not that I had any
problem with PDAs with Brett. I liked kissing him. But I also had been known to
lose control when I was with him…and lose articles of clothing. And after
having that awkward run-in with my mom and her boyfriend's PDA on our living
room couch last week, I'd rather not make a spectacle of myself in front of
everyone. It opened up the doors to ridicule.
Rule
number three: I wouldn't go to Homecoming with Brett. I'd made it this far
through high school without plunging into that cheesy sea of balloons and crepe
paper while wearing a silly sequin-laden dress, and I wasn't going to cross
that line during my senior year.
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