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Title: Bullies like Me
Genre: YA
Author: Lindy Zart
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Blurb:
If
you can make it out of Enid High School alive, you can make it through
anything.
Alexis
is the new girl at school, and she’s ruthlessly bullied. Hopeless, and drowning
in her present reality, she takes pills—lots of pills. She’s sent to a mental
health facility, where she meets a boy. Only the boy can’t save her, and no one
can save her from herself.
Nick
has secrets. He wants to open up to Alexis, but there’s the dead boy who haunts
him. In his dreams. While he’s awake. He wants to be brave, but he can’t tell
her about his past, and he can’t leave the facility.
Melanie
rules over the school, until a nobody named Lexie tries to disrupt her reign.
She won’t allow that. She also can’t stop it. She plummets into notoriety, but
she’s determined to take them all with her. The girl, the boy, and their
secrets.
Excerpt:
Nick’s
arm brushes against mine as we cross the street, and he flinches.
I
grit my teeth, holding in my irritation until we reach the beginning of the
path. Then I slam my hands on my hips and glare at him. “Okay, what is your
deal? If you really didn’t want to be with me today, why didn’t you just say
it?”
He
opens his mouth.
My
glower deepens.
“I
don’t like being out in public. I don’t…like being around people,” he says
after a pause. “I like to be alone.”
I
throw my arms up in frustration. “Then why did you agree to this?”
Nick
steps closer. “But I like to be with you more than I like to be alone, and even
though I don’t like to be around people, I like to be around you—probably more
than I should. How could I say no to being with you, even if it’s in a setting
I despise?”
“That’s
messed up,” I say, shaking my head, even as a warm glow fills my insides.
“I’m
messed up.”
“You’re
not, not really.”
He
lowers his head, taking my hands in his. Examining them. It feels like fire and
ice when we touch. Sparks and frost. “You have no idea, Alexis.” Nick threads
our fingers together, lifting our hands between us, and looks at me.
“Tell
me,” I whisper, feeling like I can’t breathe. My air is caught somewhere within
the magnetic pull of blue-green seas. Who needs to breathe anyway?
“Someday,”
he promises, and then, with our hands still entwined, he leans forward and
kisses me.
His
lips are soft, firm. Magic. Tasting of dreams and hope. And grief too. I’m
kissing not only Nick, but his soul as well. I feel his heartbeat with my lips.
I taste the feelings he has for me, and they are overwhelming. Catastrophically
beautiful. The kiss lasts long enough to rearrange everything inside me, to
steal my breath, to give it back. To let me know Nick has the power to ruin me.
To let me know I’d probably let him.
Author
Info:
Author
Bio:
USA Today bestselling
author Lindy Zart writes in a multitude of fictional genres because, well, her
brain requires it so she stays somewhat sane. She has been writing since she
was a child, but luckily for readers, her writing has improved since
then.
She lives in Wisconsin with her family. Lindy loves hearing from people who enjoy her work. She also has a completely healthy obsession with the following: coffee, wine, pizza, peanut butter, and Bloody Mary’s.
