Sammy Espinoza's Last Review - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Tehlor Mejia is the author of Cash Delgado is Living the Dream , Sammy Espinoza’s Last Review, and the critically acclaimed young-adult fantasy duology We Set the Dark on Fire and We Unleash the Merciless Storm . His debut middle-grade series, Paola Santiago and the River of Tears, is currently in development at Disney as a television series. Mejia lives with his daughter, partner, and two small dogs in Oregon, where he grows heirloom corn and continues his quest to perfect the vegan tamale. Klappentext “A sexy, funny, sweet story about second chances and found family . . . I fell in love with Ridley Falls and everyone in it.”—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers “This immersive tale will have everyone flipping pages.” —Good Morning America ONE OF THE BEST ROMANCE NOVELS OF 2023: Cosmopolitan, USA Today, PopSugar A music critic stuck in a spiral of epic proportions targets her teenage crush for a career comeback and a chance at revenge. What could possibly go wrong? Sammy Espinoza’s life is a raging dumpster fire. Her desperate attempt to win back her singer ex-girlfriend has landed her in hot water at work, and she has one last chance before her editor cuts her column. Luckily, Sammy has a plan to redeem herself, but it won’t be easy. Rumor has it that Max Ryan, the former rock god, is secretly recording his first-ever solo album years after he dramatically quit performing. And it just so happens that he and Sammy have history: Right before Max got his big break, he and Sammy spent an unforgettable night together. Exclusive access to Max’s new music would guarantee Sammy’s professional comeback and, even better, give her the opportunity to serve some long-awaited revenge for his traumatic ghosting. But Max lives in Ridley Falls, Washington, and Sammy has history there as well: a family that never wanted her and a million unanswered questions. Going back would mean confronting it all—but what else does she have to lose? Leseprobe 1 People like to say you can’t go home again, but for me that’s more a literal statement than a figurative one. Because I never had a home to come back to. When you spend your childhood following your mother in her search for a great love—or at least for an apartment you won’t get evicted from—you end up a bit of a wanderer. It never bothered me much until recently, when life decided to sucker punch me and then keep on wailing. For starters, I broke my rule about dating musicians again. Karma really hates it when I do that. A fact she proved categorically when my indie-rock goddess girlfriend Juniper Street delivered the killing blow to our seventeen-month relationship onstage in a song literally titled “Goodbye, Sammy.” Of course, the emotional damage wasn’t the extent of it. Because I had to go and break another one of my rules. This time it was the one about not using my well-respected music column (written under the pen name Verity Page) or its thousands of subscribers to lie about said musician’s mediocre band in print. In many pieces spanning the entire last month of our doomed relationship. I thought it might save me and Juniper, but instead it lost me my job. (Well, nearly anyway. More on that later.) For anyone counting, that’s two major life pillars down in the space of a weekend—and I’m not even done. I started thinking about what people do when their twenties are not what they dreamed them to be. About sleeping in a bed you’ve outgrown. Letting your parents cook for you when everything is falling down around you. That’s when I first had the bright idea to travel to Ridley Falls, Washington. Population seventeen, or something. The closest place to home I’ve ever really had. The pla...

Product details

• Authors: Tehlor Mejia, Tehlor Kay Mejia
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.07.2023
• EAN: 9780593598771
• ISBN: 978-0-593-59877-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 202 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature