Girl with Guitar - Caisey Quinn

Synopsis: After Kylie’s dad dies in a freak accident, he leaves her with nothing other than her crazy step-mother, Darla, and the ability to play guitar. When Darla kicks Kylie out and she loses her job all in the same day, she hops a bus to Nashville determined to make her late father’s dreams come true. Waitressing and saving her pennies to record a demo, her big break comes when she’s asked to join a tour going down the tubes with once platinum album-selling country music superstar Trace Corbin. But touring with Trace is hardly a dream come true since he’s pretty much drinking his career down the drain. If Kylie can’t pull Trace out of his rut, he’ll pull her and her dreams down with him.

Country music. Country bad boy. Yup, this is my kind of book. I moved to New York, but I grew up in the middle of nowhere and I miss country radio more than anything. So naturally I got really excited about the music and the country boy – which seems actually quite rare to come by in new adult. Even though Trace is living pretty lavishly, he has country in his roots and I adore him for that. This is definitely one of those stories that it’d be pretty great to live in. 

Kylie is a strong and spunky heroine and you have to admire her for going so fearlessly after her dreams. She almost has a Cinderella thing happening after her dad dies and her evil stepmom kicks  her out, then her lofty dreams start coming true. And if Trace is her version of a prince…well, then that’s the kind of Cinderella story I can actually get on board with. 

Trace is pretty much a salvageable train wreck. I know you’re not supposed to want to go in and fix other people, but the fact that he’s fixable is what makes him worth the time. Because if he wasn’t, he’d just be a slightly-alcoholic, inconsiderate, privileged dude on a downward spiral. But it turns out Kylie is the one who can find the perfect balances in Trace – he’s pretty bitter through most of the book, but he’s also really sweet. But in everything he does, he’s really intense and committed, which is what makes him such a strong male lead. 

There’s plenty of melodrama in this story, a lot of it seems to fall into a predictable pattern – it completely follows a rom-com projection, but I was really okay with it because the ride is enjoyable. This is the first book I’ve read from Caisey Quinn, and I’m going to keep reading her books because while she has a lot of room to grow as a writer, she can get me all wrapped up in the characters. Really, I’ll give anything with a good country boy a try, and she has that part down for sure.   

Release Day Launch: Keep Me Still by Casey Quinn

Happy Release Day to Keep Me Still by Casey Quinn! 

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About Keep Me Still

Layla Flaherty had the perfect life, or close to it. Until a stranger gunned her parents down right in front of her, leaving her with seizure inducing PTSD. After years of trying to pass as normal and failing miserably, she resigns herself to being invisible. But new to town Landen O’Brien sees her, and he likes what he sees. Much to Layla’s surprise, he doesn’t freak out when she has a seizure in front of him. He does the exact opposite, calming her until the tremors subside. But Landen has secrets of his own. Secrets that both bind them together and tear them apart. 

Scarred by loss, Layla leaves her hometown of Hope Springs, Georgia, hoping to put her painful past behind her and start over in college in California. When she runs into Landen at freshmen orientation, she has a choice to make. Reinforce those steel walls she's built up around herself or give the only boy who can keep her still a second chance.

Landen’s more than ready to tear down those walls but this time when they come crashing down, they might bury her.

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Excerpt

I move the pillow and look at him, overheating instantly at the sight of his mouth and the memory of what he just did with it. I can’t help but wonder how people do these intimate things to each other and then go on with life business as usual. Pass the salt and all that.           

“You are the most dangerous kind of beautiful,” he says, brushing my messy hair away from my face.

I can only imagine what a wreck I look like after that, but with the way he smiles at me, he must actually think I am beautiful right now. I lean in and kiss his mouth. I can taste myself on his lips. It’s kind of strange and kind of a turn on. I pull at his lower lip with my teeth and he groans.           

His voice is raspy against my mouth. “You even taste like peaches, sweet like I knew you would be.”

“What do you taste like, Landen?” I ask, as my sex voice woman comes back to me. “And more importantly, what’s with all the clothes?”

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Dream Cast

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About Casey Quinn

Caisey Quinn lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her husband, daughter, and other assorted animals. She is the bestselling author of the Kylie Ryans series as well as several New Adult Romance novels featuring country girls finding love in unexpected places.

Find Casey Online: Website :: Goodreads :: Facebook :: Twitter

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Giveaway

Prizes include a $50 Gift Card, a KEEP ME STILL Kindle Case, and a swag pack. Plus signed copies of WISH I MAY by Lexi Ryan, BREAK IT UP by E.M. Tippetts, and a winner's choice title from Elizabeth Lee are up for grabs. 5 winners get one or more of these prizes! US only.

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