BLOG TOUR STOP~ ARE YOU MINE? by N.K. Smith
Synopsis:
Human connection? Who needs it?
Ever since she can remember, wealthy but weary Saige Armstrong has felt different from her peers in Pechimu, New Jersey. With only one good friend to her name, she has navigated the complicated halls of high school and is now faced with the timeless question: Now what?
Fox Harrington, a fun-loving, socially charismatic graffiti artist uses his passions to color his world how he wants it. He knows exactly where his life is headed. That is, until he meets Saige.
A summer project links the two together, making a tentative friendship bloom into romance, but despite their affection for each other, fundamental beliefs and ways of thinking threaten to destroy all they have built.
"These moments in life are the best there are. They’re heavy with emotion, messy with the what-ifs, and frightening with the unknowns."
Review:
I absolutely, positively love love love this book!!
Saige has experienced so much pain in her life. Her parents are gone, she doesn't get along with her grandmother, and she only has 2 friends left; One by default.
She doesn't really get along with anyone. She shuts everyone out and as everyone thinks, she is a bitch. Well except one guy: Fox. He adores her, he cannot get her out of his head.
"There's a difference between pretty girls who are your friends and pretty girls who might be more than one day."
She wants to fight the attraction, but after her friend, Myka, tells her to just open up that is just what she will do. How long until she shuts him out too?
"A nervous panic starts eating away at me now. What if this is just a summer romance? What if he's not really mine? What if I can't keep him?"
His friends don't like her, although, she doesn't like his friends either. She will try for him though, even if his friend does refer to her as 'toxic'.
Will he really be worth it all to Saige? Will she cut him out of her life before he has the chance to leave her? Will Fox continue to stay around when Saige is such a pessimist? Her friends and family are all rooting for them as a couple, but can they survive?
"Saige, I love you and all, but you've got to get rid of this toxicity thing. I know ton of people who are more noxious than you. You're a little abrasive, self-defeating, and lack skills in the ways of social interaction but if I had to guess those are some of the reasons Fox likes you so much. He doesn't want perfection. He wants you, flaws and all."
Are you Mine? is an amazing book about the struggle to open yourself up and trust. It is written from both Saige and Fox's point of views, alternating characters throughout the book. I see a lot of myself in the way Saige interacts with people. She doesn't want to say too much, or open up to the wrong person. It's hard trusting people. Circumstances may be different, however, she is a character that is easy to relate to.
5 stars from Alyssa
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Bio:
Based in the American Midwest, N.K. Smith is a Technical Writer for a Fortune 100 company. The author of the Old Wounds Series, Ghosts of Our Pasts, and My Only, she is a mother of two who finds the time to write very early in the morning when the rest of the world is still fast asleep.
An avid lover of history, art, music, books, and people, she is interested in telling stories that speak to the human condition.
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