Hi everyone! It is now my birth month, August(Yay!) and to start off the week I got the chance to participate on the Science Geek Appreciation Week by Kelly Oram. I am a HUGE fan of Kelly since I've read her book Serial Hottie which was on 2012 and from then on she was on my to-read authors list. I've read most of her books and I could definitely say that I LOVE all of them and one of my all-time favorites is The Avery Shaw Experiment! It was so cute and "kilig-to-the-bone" story which I got to review here on our blog. So when Kelly Oram sent this email to her subscribers about having a "Science Geek Appreciation Week" for TASE I grab the opportunity and say hell yes to all the teaser, interviews, games, giveaways, and lots and lost of science that will happen throughout the entire week! And yes, since I have join for the entire week of the Science Geek Appreciation you're going to read and see lots and lots about Kelly Oram and her books here in our blog for the whole first week of August!
So to start we're going to kick off the week by introducing you to the stars of the Spanish Fork High Science Squad--Club President Avery Shaw and her newest recruit, Grayson Kennedy--in their debut novel The Avery Shaw Experiment.
When Avery Shaw’s heart is shattered by her life-long best friend, she chooses to deal with it the only way she knows how—scientifically.
The state science fair is coming up and Avery decides to use her broken heart as the topic of her experiment. She’s going to find the cure. By forcing herself to experience the seven stages of grief through a series of social tests, she believes she will be able to get over Aiden Kennedy and make herself ready to love again. But she can’t do this experiment alone, and her partner (ex partner!) is the one who broke her heart.
Avery finds the solution to her troubles in the form of Aiden’s older brother Grayson. The gorgeous womanizer is about to be kicked off the school basketball team for failing physics. He’s in need of a good tutor and some serious extra credit. But when Avery recruits the lovable Grayson to be her “objective outside observer,” she gets a whole lot more than she bargained for, because Grayson has a theory of his own: Avery doesn’t need to grieve. She needs to live. And if there’s one thing Grayson Kennedy is good at, it’s living life to the fullest.
Avery
I
was so out of it that I’d slipped into the bathroom while Grayson was in the
shower, and I didn’t even notice until he poked his head out from behind the
curtain with a surprised look on his face. “Aves, babe, I’m a little busy
here.” He cocked an eyebrow and gave me a crooked smile. “Unless you’re
planning to join me...?”
Just
then there was a loud knock on the door, and my mother’s worried voice called
out to me. I looked up at Grayson and in a moment of sheer panic didn’t think
twice before jumping behind the curtain with him.
“Whoa!
Avery! I was only teasing!”
I
could hear Grayson, but I couldn’t really respond. I leaned my back against the
cold tile wall and closed my eyes, letting the hot water rain down on me. There
was another knock, louder this time, and then the door opened. “Avery? That you
in here, sweetie?”
I
frantically shook my head, praying that Grayson would do the right thing.
“Sorry,
Kaitlin. It’s just me.”
“Oh.
Sorry, Grayson. I thought maybe you were Avery.”
“Yeah,
I get that a lot,” he teased.
My
mom laughed and then sighed heavily. “If you see her after you’re done, tell
her I’m looking for her.”
“Will
do.”
The
door clicked shut and things got quiet. I stood there for so long that my head
started to hurt and I got really dizzy. My knees buckled. Grayson quickly
caught me under the arms. “Avery, breathe,” he commanded.
I
took a breath. As oxygen flooded my lungs, I realized it was probably the first
breath I’d taken in minutes. Literally.
“Aves,”
a low steady voice said. I felt hands on either side of my face. I opened
my eyes, and Grayson’s beautiful piercing blue ones were staring down at me
from just inches away, taking up my entire field of vision. “You good now?” he
asked.
I
may have been breathing, but I would never be “good” again. I flung my arms
around him and began to release gut-wrenching sobs into his chest.
Grayson
I
always looked at her as sort of a pesky little sister, but that all changed the
day my brother dumped her. Why, you ask? Let me put it this way: When a
girl lets you be the one to hold her as her entire world falls apart, even
though you’re ass naked, it changes the way you see her. The
soaking-wet, see-through t-shirt didn’t hurt, either.
...
“You
look really nice,” I blurted, unable to hide my surprise.
The
compliment startled her. She blushed and looked at her feet as she
mumbled, “I need to blow my hair dry.”
I
grinned. “Don’t want to have to explain to anyone how it got wet, eh?”
She
turned even brighter red but then glared at me. “I just don’t want my hair
to freeze.”
I
laughed as I threw my hands up in surrender and then laughed even harder
when she stalked past me into the bathroom. I leaned against the door and
watched, curiously, as she dried her hair. There was something oddly
fascinating about watching Little Avery Shaw primp. She’d never seemed like
such a real girl to me before. She wasn’t so little anymore, either. She caught
me staring at her in the mirror, so I quickly said, “I thought dorks were
supposed to have bad hair and horrible, frumpy fashion senses.”
“Just
because I enjoy learning doesn’t mean I’m a dork,” she said, insulted.
“Two
words for you Aves: science club.”
This week only, The Avery Shaw Experiment is on sale for just $0.99! Make sure to snag a copy while it's cheap!
For more bonus material, teasers, games, and chances to win things like signed books and swag stop by the Facebook event, happening now through Friday.
Kelly wrote her first novel at age fifteen--a fan fiction about her favorite music group, The Backstreet Boys, for which her family and friends still tease her. She's obsessed with reading, talks way too much, and likes to eat frosting by the spoonful. She lives outside of Phoenix, Arizona with her husband, four children, and her cat, Mr. Darcy.
That's it for Monday! Don't forget to come back tomorrow for the cover reveal of The Libby Garrett Intervention! YES people Libby has finally got her book, huge thanks to the Gods of books!
