SYNOPSIS:
From the outside looking in Garrison Davis seems like every other senior in high school. On the inside though, he’s an emotional wreck promising to not love anyone. He chooses to protect himself by vowing solitude. His dad is in prison for dealing drugs; his mother is a recovering addict and an emotional mess. The only thing that brings him joy is playing the drums and that feeling of being needed by his band. It is his escape, his passion. No one gets hurt or disappointed. That is until he lays his eyes on Reese at school. She is the exact example of what he cannot let himself get involved in. He would do nothing but drag her down with him.
“I want to tell her and show her how much I love her. I had loved her from the first time I spotted her in that courtyard smiling but I can’t, I won’t. She deserves so much more than I can offer. I’m the spawn of a drug dealer and an addict. I have never let myself love another person and now… I love her so much it hurts.”
Reese Owens is the exact opposite of Garrison. Inside she’s beaming; growing up in a happy home and on the outside she was a duck out of water. Her parents are the over protective set but are finally loosening the jail bars. Sophomore year in high school, she has never dated a boy and is envious of the social life her best friend Autumn Welch has. She meets Garrison and is instantly attracted to him. He pulls away when she pushes in. A whole new world opens up to Reese and she finds herself falling into situations she can’t get herself out of. Making bad decision after bad decision, she finds out the hard way on how life is full of choices. The one thing she wants more than anything is Garrison’s attention which she doesn’t get in return.
“How is it possible to love someone and keep it quiet? Never to utter those very words knowing he doesn’t feel the same way. I finally fall in love and he only wants to be friends. He is everything I have always wanted and he keeps me at a distance making sure we don’t get too close. How can I ignore my feelings and act like I don’t have them when we are around each other? How do I resist the urge to move my lips towards his when he is talking to me?”
Garrison realizes he has to be honest with Reese and tell her how he really feels before he loses her for good. Just maybe, he will get love in return for the first time in his life. When he finally convinces himself to come forth, a life changing event occurs that could take away the only person in his life that truly loves him.
Is it too late? Does he get the chance to tell her? And when he confesses does it matter?
REVIEW 5 STARS
An Ordinary Me
YA Romance
This is a deeply moving
YA book, about two high school students. One Garrison
Davis
who is a senior and should be having the best year of his life
and Reese
Owens a young girl who is discovering what high school is about,
along the way these two people will meet and it will set them on a
course that changes both of their lives.
Garrison
is an amazing character, you are drawn to him from the very
beginning. His home life has not been easy. Garrison's father is in
prison and his mother is a drug addict. He has so much to deal with
in his daily life. Garrison wants a better life for himself and is
determined to leave his painful past behind.
Reese,
I loved her she is every young girl in high school, always thinking
that she doesn't look good enough or thinking of herself as a just an
ordinary girl. Reese comes from a loving family, very different from
Garrison. She always has her friend Autumn by her side who is
completely opposite of Reese. Over the years Reese has had a crush on
a boy she grew up with, Cannon, I'm not going to tell you about him
you have to read the book...
Something
happens that brings these two together, Garrison really is a knight
in shining armor, but he doesn't think he's good enough for Reese,
she thinks he's perfect, loyal and caring.
“I
will say it one more time and I hope you really hear me. To love
someone, truly love them, inside and out is a once in lifetime
opportunity. If you pass it up you will regret it.” An Ordinary
Me
There
are so many things that I loved about this book it really captures
the feelings of being a young teenager in high school, today. I loved
how the author added in two teachers who were mentors to Garrison.
This book is a heartfelt story with a good message on how you can
over come any obstacle in your life and how two people can grow
together and teach each other what love and family really means. It's
a book that a teenager and adult would love.
Lacy
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
CONTACT INFORMATION
Brooklyn Taylor Bio:
I am a Texas girl, mother of 2 amazing kiddos and married to my gorgeous soulmate for almost 20 years. I have a full time job in the medical field but hope one day to strictly write. I love to spend my free time reading, being outside and playing with my family and 4 fur babies. I am blessed to have very supportive friends and family that make my life worth living! I started to write at the instinct of "hey maybe I can do that!" and here I am. I have enjoyed every step of the journey. Every single person I hear from about my stories touches me and confirms the reason why I ventured into this insane dream of mine.
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