Cry Baby by Ginger Scott
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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
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.
4.5 Stars
Ginger Scott has stepped out of her normal for this book and she does a stellar job of it. Bringing us an intense and emotional read with characters that you just want to pull in and hug, but praise the for the things they have overcame.
Tristan was marked for a hard life from the day he was born. Being the son of the man who started the gang, he spends most of his days torn between what he knows is expected of him and the things he dreams that life can hold for him. Balancing a fine line between doing what was asked and keeping himself on the lesser side of the evil where he could. Being the guy that looked out for others that didn't need to be part of the life of 57 and needed to steer clear. When he meets Riley moving into her new home, she lights a fire under those dreams and wants for a different life in a different time. If only it was possible.
Riley is getting my and learning to live with the life she has been handed. Her and her dad seem to have things working as best they can since her mom left. Her thrive and focus on basketball and using that to help her secure a future better than what she has know. Her dad her biggest supported and always pushing her to work towards that dream, work on her sport and give life her all. This latest move into the heart of the 57 has changed some of her views and thoughts but she still believes there are good in people. She sees that good in Tristan and is determined to help him see it and try to fight to get "out".
The things these two you children endure and the emotions that Ginger bring with her story are something you just have to experience yourself. I felt like I was walking those streets looking over my shoulder and hoping for a better outcome than I expected. Life is hard for some and many never get to live the better life.
Completely honoured to be trusted by the author with and ARC and loved ever minute reading. Shared this read with my 14 year old daughter and she loved it just as much as I did.
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).
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