Smada's Book Smack : Blog Tour & Giveaway: Like Never and Always by Ann Aguirre

Book Blurb:

LIKE NEVER AND ALWAYS by Ann Aguirre
Pub. Date: July 17, 2018
Publisher: Tor Teen
Formats: Hardcover, eBook, audiobook
Pages: 336

On a hot summer night, a screech of brakes and shattering glass changes two lives forever.

Liv wakes in the hospital, confused when they call her Morgan. She assumes it’s a case of mistaken identity, yet when the bandages come off, it’s not her face in the mirror anymore. It’s her best friend Morgan’s.

Morgan always seemed to have the perfect life, yet Liv must navigate endlessly disturbing secrets of the criminal and murderous variety—and a romance that feels like a betrayal. Torn between the boy she loved as Liv and the boy she’s grown to love as Morgan, Liv still has to survive Morgan’s last request.

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Extreme Peril

“I’m not your property,” I tell him. “If you keep on like this, the truth will come out.”

“Will it?” His voice is silky with menace.

He jerks the wheel, driving the small car into a spin. I stomp the brake in reflex so we come rocking to a stop at the edge of the road, and my head snaps sideways, slamming into the window. It hurts like hell and I’m seeing stars for a few seconds, long enough for him to yank me out of the driver’s seat and into his lap. The gear shift bites into my hip. I scream then, full on ear-splitting shrieks, and it makes him hesitate. Then I process what he’s actually saying.

“My God, you’re bleeding. Morgan, are you all right?”

He cradles me like I’m infinitely precious, just like the endearment he used, and it unsettles me to the point that I can’t speak. What the hell is wrong with this man? I use his concern, relaxing enough to make him drop some tension in his arms. It’s like he really thinks I’ll snuggle against him. When he puts his face in my hair, I slam my skull back against his nose and lunge for the door handle.

Though I’m dizzy as shit, in ten seconds I’m running full tilt into the field. The corn is tall and dry, rustling, whipping my face as I shove through, deeper into the rows, so I can’t see anything. This is a scene straight from a horror movie, and I should know better, except all my choices are bad and worse. There are no houses around, and for a few heartbeats, I can only think, Is this how my mother died? I imagine her being driven off the road, surviving the crash and running, running, aware of the tiny, helpless life inside her. Is this how she felt in her last moments? I smell Creepy Jack’s blood in my hair, and in this moment, I feel only mad revulsion. If I could, I’d plunge into a river and wash myself clean, even if that ended with me floating like Ophelia with flowers in my damp and streaming hair.

He’s shouting but I don’t stop. I run and keep running as if my life depended on it. Maybe it does. I’ve lost the ability to tell. In the headlong rush I don’t see the edge coming, plunge down a bank and tumble through a briar patch. Wild raspberries, half-eaten by birds, smear my skin with red, underscored by the scratches deep enough to bleed. I don’t have the breath or strength to run farther. Injuries from the accident throb from the fall, so I press myself into the damp earth, weeds tickling my bare cheeks, and I don’t move.

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Author Bio:

Ann Aguirre is a New York Times & USA Today bestselling author with a degree in English Literature; before she began writing full time, she was a clown, a clerk, a voice actress, and a savior of stray kittens, not necessarily in that order. She grew up in a yellow house across from a cornfield, but now she lives in sunny Mexico with her husband, children, and various pets. She likes books, emo music, and action movies. She writes all kinds of genre fiction for adults and teens.

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