PROM-WRECKED BY JENNIFER DIGIOVANNI & T.H. HERNANDEZ
Publication Date: May 6, 2019
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Their prom night ended in a jail cell with
forty of their closest friends. But that’s hardly the worst thing that happened
to them…
When the principal announces prom is canceled this year, senior Riley Hart is determined to save it. Armed with little more than her own enthusiasm, she ends up working closely with Owen Locklear, who is more than completely off-limits. Because he’s the boyfriend of her ex-BFF, Catherine Reed. Still, Owen knows Riley better than almost anyone, and his charming ideas for turning the prom upside-down and backward win Riley over.
Catherine is willing to join Owen and Riley on the prom committee, but only because her legacy as prom queen is at stake. She’s already suffocating under the weight of her parents’ expectations for after senior year, and compared to that, ensuring prom happens should be easy. At least until everything starts to go wrong.
First they lose their deposit. Then they book a band full of octogenarians. And lose their venue... Twice.
Riley will have an unforgettable teenage experience, damn it, if it’s the last thing she does…
When the principal announces prom is canceled this year, senior Riley Hart is determined to save it. Armed with little more than her own enthusiasm, she ends up working closely with Owen Locklear, who is more than completely off-limits. Because he’s the boyfriend of her ex-BFF, Catherine Reed. Still, Owen knows Riley better than almost anyone, and his charming ideas for turning the prom upside-down and backward win Riley over.
Catherine is willing to join Owen and Riley on the prom committee, but only because her legacy as prom queen is at stake. She’s already suffocating under the weight of her parents’ expectations for after senior year, and compared to that, ensuring prom happens should be easy. At least until everything starts to go wrong.
First they lose their deposit. Then they book a band full of octogenarians. And lose their venue... Twice.
Riley will have an unforgettable teenage experience, damn it, if it’s the last thing she does…
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EXCERPT:
RILEY – SIX WEEKS UNTIL PROM
I glance down at my empty hand and realize what’s missing.
“Oh, no.” I let everything in my arms fall to the floor and drop to my knees,
combing through files and bags, frantically tossing papers and shaking out
notebooks. Owen’s baseball cleats edge into the corner of my vision as he
stands there, hands on his hips, watching.
“Everything okay?”
“The deposit. It’s gone! How
did I lose it? I only had it for ten minutes.” My hands start to shake. This
can’t be happening. I glance up and down the hallway, searching for a manila
envelope filled with cash.
Owen crouches beside me.
“Take a breath and chill for a second. If you can’t find the check, we’ll go
ask Slater to replace it.”
“It was cash. Bake sale cash.
Not a check.” Tears sting my eyes. “I can’t march in Slater’s office and
announce the money’s gone.” “He won’t help us, anyway. He said prom is our
responsibility this year, remember?”
Owen starts rubbing circles
on my back, comforting me. Through a cloud of misery, I register the heat of
his touch.
“I’m sure we’ll find it,”
Owen says. “How much was the deposit? Fifty bucks? Seventy-five?”
An incredulous laugh hiccups
out of me. “Try five hundred.”
Owen unsuccessfully tries to
hide his shock. “Can you call Mrs.
Cleary and ask if she’ll wait another day for the deposit?”
“And lose our only affordable
venue to another school?”
Owen must hear the panic in
my voice, because the pressure of his touch increases. “I’ll help you retrace
your steps back to Slater’s office.”
Before I answer, the squeaky
soles of a herd of cheer sneakers approaches. When I look up, I see Catherine with
Jessa Chang, Hannah Smith, and Natalie Ruiz, wearing matching pom squad
uniforms. Owen’s eyes flick from Catherine to me. His hand drops away from my
back like he realized he was touching a flaming tower of bricks.
“Owen?” Catherine asks.
“What’s going on?”
I shoot him a pleading look.
“Uh, Riley just lost her Morp
envelope, I mean prom file. Temporarily misplaced. But she found it, right?”
Owen is not a good liar.
Review by Gia:
Prom-Wrecked is a great read. It prom season and I'm seeing people post
about their kids going to prom all over Facebook so I was like ok I'm
going to read a book that has a prom in it. This one had me hooked
from beginning to end. The first chapter had me hooked. It starts with
11pm on prom night and all the kids are in a jail cell. I had to know
what happened for them all to end up there and we get that because
Chapter two starts with two months before the prom. I had expected
to have the book told in the dual POVs of Riley and Owen but it's told
from the POVs of Riley and Catherine and I loved it. Two months before
the prom the head prom planner quits and the principal wants to cancel
the prom. Riley steps up to save the prom. Catherine focus to be prom
queen but there is much more to her then just that. In planning the
prom, this group encounters disaster after disaster. I was even
wondering if the prom was doomed not to happen. Through all this we
see some friendships and relationship change and others form. It's
really a great sweet YA book.5 Amazeballs Stars!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jennifer DiGiovanni writes light fantasy
and contemporary fiction for teens. You can find out more about her books by
visiting www.jenniferdigiovanni.com or following her on Instagram or Twitter @jendwrites.
T.H. Hernandez is a young adult author of six novels,
spanning the contemporary, post-global warming/dystopian, and urban scifi
genres. She lives in San Diego, California with her husband, three kids, and a
zoo-worthy collection of animals. Her latest release, PROM-WRECKED, was
co-written with Jennifer DiGiovanni and releases May 2019 from Entangled Teen.
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