WINNER -- Third Place
for Fiction 2013 Indie Reader
Discovery Awards
FINALIST-- New Fiction 2013 National Indie Excellence Awards
FINALIST-- New Fiction 2013 National Indie Excellence Awards
To
nineteen-year-old high school dropout Travis Walker, women are like snowflakes–each
one different, but beautiful in her own way.
He can charm
any girl he meets, and yet down deep he fears he’ll always be a loser like his
jailbird father. As the landlady threatens to evict him and his sick mother,
Travis takes a job he hates and spends his evenings picking up girls at a
nearby night spot.
When he
enlists in a teen program at the local fire station, he finds out he’s amazing
at it. Then he meets the smoking hot Kat Summers, enlists Kat’s friend Zoey to
help him woo her, and falls in love for the first time ever.
But he keeps
the details of his life secret. His girl will never love him back if she knows
the truth about him….
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Reviews:
“ ….the title of this book had me
expecting something very like a teen romance. While there is romance aplenty in
this wonderful novel, Girls Love Travis Walker is far more than that….
“Little did I know that what I was about to read would have such a huge impact on me…. This book hit me right in the heart.”
“Little did I know that what I was about to read would have such a huge impact on me…. This book hit me right in the heart.”
“I really loved
Travis…. I cried and was scared with him.”
“This book will make you fall in
love for so many reasons…”
My Review:
Girls Love Travis Walker threw me for a loop. Not reading the blurb and taking the title word for word, I assumed that he was just a playboy. I was so wrong.
Anne did an amazing job with creating such a unique story about everyday struggles, finding love and making sacrifices. She created a very realistic world within this book. It isn't all rainbows and lollypops; it's about garlic-smelling landladies, neon orange mac n cheese, and the Dumpster Diet.
I really enjoyed reading Girls Love Travis Walker and I'm pretty sure you will too!!!
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Excerpt from Girls Love Travis Walker:
Only fifteen minutes since I’d
entered the halls of Perdido High School and already the beady eye of authority
was upon me. I hadn’t even done anything wrong.
Yet.
“Travis!” Ms. Valenzuela called
out to me from the door of the guidance office. Although she was getting old,
maybe into her early forties, she hadn’t let herself go. She had great legs,
which were hidden today by her lime green pants.
“Yo.” I loped over and unleashed
a grin that combined sincere remorse for my failings with my irresistible
charm.
She pursed her lips. “Don’t start
with me, Travis.”
I led the way to her office and
took my usual chair while she sat at the desk across from me. “New picture,” I
said, nodding to the updated photo of her two daughters. “Kelsi and … Julianne,
right?”
She struggled to keep back a
smile. “Yes, Travis. Those are their
names.”
“Fifth and seventh grade, right?”
“Yes, Travis.” Now she was
smiling for sure.
Maybe it was my blue-green eyes,
or maybe my granite abs, but I could always get women to smile at me.
Ms. Valenzuela opened my folder.
“Six more absences since your last visit to my office. Plus numerous missed
homework assignments. You’re this close to suspension.” She held up her thumb
and index finger a millimeter apart.
“I have to work, Ms. Val,” I
said. “Gotta get ahead, you know.” I had a promising position as a bus boy at
Jake’s Burgers.
“How many hours are you working
these days?”
“As many as I can get, whenever I
can get ‘em.”
“You can’t cut back?” She knew
she couldn’t push me that hard. My family’s sudden move to Los Angeles in
November of my junior year, coupled with my erratic attendance at Perdido High,
had screwed up my graduation credits. With all my former classmates in college,
I was starting my senior year, again, at age nineteen.
“I can’t get weekend shifts at
Jake’s,” I told Ms.Val.
She didn’t like me working there,
but she should just be glad I wasn’t following in the path of my father, who
knocked over a convenience mart a year ago and ended up in prison for armed
robbery. Mom had gone to visit him, but I refused. He could rot there for all I
cared.
“You’ve got one school year left
to graduate. I want to see you get that high school diploma, Travis. Or a GED at
least.” Between her fingers, she rolled a pen. It was the cheap kind the school
district bought that wrote for about five minutes before it crapped out on you.
“Yeah, well, we’re about to get
evicted,” I said, “so that’s kind of rearranged my priorities.”
Author Bio:
Anne Pfeffer
lives in Los Angeles, California. She likes to write, walk her dog, play poker,
and work as a library volunteer at a local school. Her book Any Other Night has
been named a Finalist in both the 2012 Indie Reader Discovery Awards and the
2013 National Indie Excellence Awards.
Author
Links:
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@AnnePfeffer1
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