Title: Falling by Design
Author: Valia Lind
Genre: YA contemporary
Published: March 12, 2014
Brooklynn Summers has a plan for her life: graduate from high school, get into a top fashion school, prove to her family that she’s not a failure. She wishes someone in her life understood her need to create because her parents sure don’t support her dreams, her sister hates her, and the deadlines are soon approaching.
Enter Grayson Banks.
There are a few things in life Brooklynn can’t stand: mismatched patterns, cheap polyester, and Grayson. No boy has ever publicly humiliated Brooklynn like Grayson has. When he suddenly moved away in eighth grade, Brooklynn happily wished him good riddance. But on the first day of senior year, Grayson comes back, with his piercing blue eyes and a smile that melts icebergs, he is not exactly the boy Brooklynn remembers. She quickly realizes that Grayson’s intentions have completely shifted, but she’s not sure if she can put their past behind her.
Grayson understands Brooklynn’s creative ambitions and he devises a plan to showcase her work to the world. When the two agree to work together, suddenly, there is more than just fabric paint that’s having a chemical reaction to its environment. Brooklynn cannot help but feel pulled into Grayson’s arms, but memories and misunderstandings surface, putting in danger whatever small comradeship these two childhood enemies have constructed.
Can Brooklynn overcome her own insecurities, finally making her dreams come true? Even a dream she didn’t know she had.
This is a story about a girl with big dreams and a boy who helps her achieve them.
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Let's see who Valia's 5 Swoon worthy Fictional characters are!
Valia’s 5 Swoonworthy Fictional Characters:
* Captain
Wentworth from Persuasion. Pretty much the best example of a gentlemen who’s
love never dies. Also, the BBC version of the movie with Rupert Penry-Jones is
the best.
* John
Thornton from North and South. Another BBC special, where Mr. Thornton is
played by Richard Armitage, is to swoon for. His love confession (at her house)
is probably one of my favorite romantic moments.
* Aiden from
The Covenant Series. This one is definitely up there in the ranks for me. The
whole broken hero with a huge heart? How can you not be all over that.
* Hector
from The Girl of Fire and Thorns series. This one is a new one for me, but I
had to add it because he is SO swoonworthy it hurts. Well, not really, but if
you’ve read the series, you know what I mean. That second book pretty much
broke my heart.
* Cole from
Alice in Zombieland. Seriously, I know book 3 still hasn’t come out, but I’m in
serious swoon with that boy. I love me some heros.
While I can go on and on, these are the five that came to my
mind. To be honest, Brooklynn would’ve chosen most of these as well. In case
you were wondering.
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About Valia
Author. Photographer. Artist. Born and raised in St. Petersburg, Russia, Valia Lind always had a love for the written word. She wrote her first full book on the bathroom floor of her dormitory, while procrastinating to study for her college classes. Upon graduation, she has moved her writing to more respectable places, and have found her voice in Young Adult fiction. Falling by Design is her debut young adult novel. You can visit her online at www.valialind.blogspot.com or follow her on twitter, where she spends way too much time, @ValiaLind.
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Thanks for sharing Valia's book w/us. I love finding new authors!!!
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