From critically acclaimed author Katie McGarry, comes SAY YOU’LL REMEMBER ME—a story of two people from different worlds pushing themselves, and each other, to get what they deserve!
SAY YOU’LL REMEMBER ME releases on January 30, 2018. Order your copy today!
Say You'll Remember Me by Katie McGarry
Blurb:
When Drix was convicted of a crime--one he didn't commit--he thought his life was over. But opportunity came with the new Second Chance Program, the governor's newest pet project to get delinquents off the streets, rehabilitated and back into society. Drix knows this is his chance to get his life back on track, even if it means being paraded in front of reporters for a while.
Elle knows she lives a life of privilege. As the governor's daughter, she can open doors with her name alone. But the expectations and pressure to be someone she isn't may be too much to handle. She wants to follow her own path, whatever that means.
When Drix and Elle meet, their connection is immediate, but so are their problems. Drix is not the type of boy Elle's parents have in mind for her, and Elle is not the kind of girl who can understand Drix's messy life.
But sometimes love can breach all barriers.
Fighting against a society that can't imagine them together, Drix and Elle must push themselves--Drix to confront the truth of the robbery, and Elle to assert her independence--and each other to finally get what they deserve.
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My Review:
Ellison “Elle” Monroe is the govenor’s daughter and with that comes a lot of expectations to be perfect and sacrifices of things that are important to her. But Elle doesn’t see it that way, she thinks she’s helping her father on the campaign trail.
Hendrix “Drix” Pierce is trying to see where he fits in now that he’s back from seven months of juvie and three months in an Outward Bound program for a crime he didn’t commit. He’s not the guy he used to be but he’s not sure who he is now either. For the next year he’ll be the governor’s dancing monkey pulled out at fundraisers to show that the governor’s pet project, a second chance program is working. What he didn’t expect was that the girl he meets on the midway at a carnival would turn out to be the governor’s daughter.
Nobody wants Elle and Drix together. It would be bad for Elle’s image, bad for the campaign, bad for the program, and bad for Drix’s future if things go south; yet together they find comfort, friendship, and then something more.
Do Elle and Drix have a shot at being together? Can Drix show the governor and the people that just see his record that he’s not that guy? Can he find out who really robbed the convenience store he was convicted of robbing?
I loved Say You’ll Remember Me. Most of Katie Mcagarry’s books that I’ve read seem to have the same theme, a girl from money and a guy from “the wrong side of the tracks” who fall in love. This one takes on a girl who is oblivious to her parents using her for her father’s political gain and a guy who’s had a hard life with no one in authority giving him a break.
I liked Drix more than Elle because at times I felt Elle was very naive. And Elle’s parents drove me nuts. It just shows you that politicians say they’re for the people they’re representing but when it comes right down to it they only care about themselves and their agendas. I loved the secondary characters, Dominic, Holiday, Marcus, Axle, and Henry and thought they made the story in a way.
I feel like this book is very relavent right now, especially with Elle’s interaction with the donor at one of her father’s fundraisers touching her inappropriately but feeling like she can’t do anything to make a scene because of his contribution to her father’s campaign. It’s very current with everything that’s been in the news lately even if I was screaming at the character to do something.
The ending of the book broke my heart a little but does have a happy, satisfying end. Overall, this may be one of my favorite Katie McGarry books and I definitely recommend it.
My Rating:
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
5 of 5 Stars!
Excerpt:
~Ellison~
Sean points, and a woman in the back asks, “You never met Mr. Pierce before?”
I shake my head, and Sean gestures to the microphone. “No. I was playing a midway game earlier, and he ended up playing beside me, but then we went our separate ways. I left the game, and these guys started to harass me, and hen Hendrix asked if I needed help. I agreed, and he suggested we talk. He said that if the guys thought we were friends they would eventually lose interest, and they did. Hendrix played a game, and we talked until Andrew showed.”
“Andrew?” someone asks.
“Andrew Morton.” That causes enough of a stir that nervousness leaks into my bloodstream and makes my hands cold and clammy. Why is it that I feel that I said something terribly wrong?
“Are you and Andrew Morton friends?” someone else asks, and the question hits me in a sickening way. I name-dropped the grandson of the most powerful US Senator…the position my father is campaigning for. Sean is going to roast me alive.
“Yes. We’ve been friends for as long as I remember.” Friends, enemies, it’s all semantics at this point.
“Did you and Andrew Morton plan to attend the festival together?” Another reporter.
“Yes.”
“Were you on a date?” a woman asks.
My entire body recoils. “What?”
“Are you and Andrew Morton romantically involved?”
I become one of those bunnies who go still at the slightest sound. “I thought we were talking about Hendrix.”
“Did Mr. Pierce confront the men?”
Finally back on track. “No, he was adamant that there should be no violence.”
More questions and I put my hand in the air as I feel like I’m the one on trial. “Isn’t that the point? Hendrix went through my dad’s program, and one of the first chances he had to make a good decision, he made one. We’re strangers, and he helped me without violence. That, to me, is success.” A few people nod their head, and because I don’t want to be done yet… “Mr. O’Bryan—grown men shouldn’t be following seventeen-year-old girls. I’m curious why you didn’t step in when I was being harassed. If you saw Hendrix and me together, then you know what happened, and it’s horrifying you didn’t help. Hendrix made the right choice. You did not.”
A rumble of conversation, Sean places a hand on my arm and gently, but firmly pushes me to the side. The raging fire in his eyes says he’s mentally measuring out the room in the basement he’s going to let me rot in for the next ten years.
My father approaches the microphone with an ease I envy. “Any more questions for Ellison can be sent to my press secretary. As you can tell, it’s been a trying day for my daughter, but we are most grateful for Mr. Pierce’s actions. We promised a program that was going to help our state’s youth turn their lives around, and, thanks to Mr. Pierce’s admirable actions, we are proud of our first program’s success.”
He offers Drix his hand again, and Drix accepts.
Lots of pictures and applause, and Dad leans in and whispers something to him. I can’t tell what it is, but I do see the shadow that crosses over Drix’s face, his throat move as he swallow and then the slight nod of his head.
I don’t know what happened, but I don’t like it. The urge is to rush Drix, but Sean has a firm hold on my elbow, keeping me in place, silently berating me for causing problems.
Drix stands behind the podium and drops a bomb so huge the ground shakes beneath my feet. “Because Ellison had enough courage to explain what happened today, I’m going to tell you what I was convicted of…”
Giveaway:
About Katie McGarry:
Katie McGarry was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan.
Katie is the author of full length YA novels, PUSHING THE LIMITS, DARE YOU TO, CRASH INTO YOU, TAKE ME ON, BREAKING THE RULES, and NOWHERE BUT HERE and the e-novellas, CROSSING THE LINE and RED AT NIGHT. Her debut YA novel, PUSHING THE LIMITS was a 2012 Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction, a RT Magazine's 2012 Reviewer's Choice Awards Nominee for Young Adult Contemporary Novel, a double Rita Finalist, and a 2013 YALSA Top Ten Teen Pick. DARE YOU TO was also a Goodreads Choice Finalist for YA Fiction and won RT Magazine’s Reviewer’s Choice Best Book Award for Young Adult Contemporary fiction in 2013.
Links:
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