We jumped at the chance to take part in the First Loves Blog Tour because A. We love first love and B. Amazing authors!! Â We got to ask each author one question and we decided to ask them all the same one!
If you could introduce one of your characters to another character from any other book, who would it be and why?
Check out their answers below and make sure you check out their book details and add them to your ‘to read’ list immediately!!
Emery Lord, OPEN ROAD SUMMER
ANSWER: Hm. I’m a teensy bit tempted to introduce Reagan to Remy from Sarah Dessen’s This Lullaby or Celaena from Sarah Maas’sThrone of Glass just to watch those duos burn whole towns to the ground. But! I’m going to say Francesca from Melina Marchetta’s Saving Francesca. She’s strong-willed, like Reagan, but incredibly forthright (um, not like Reagan). Francesca comes out with her feelings almost helplessly and, since Saving Francesca follows her for an entire school year, so you see her grow a lot as a person. Open Road Summer is only a little over two months, but I think Reagan would go through similar emotional development to Francesca over a little more time! They’d butt heads, but I’d like to see Francesca nudge Reagan along and call her on her crap.
After breaking up with her bad-news boyfriend, Reagan O’Neill is ready to leave her rebellious ways behind. . . and her best friend, country superstar Lilah Montgomery, is nursing a broken heart of her own. Fortunately, Lilah’s 24-city tour is about to kick off, offering a perfect opportunity for a girls-only summer of break-up ballads and healing hearts. But when Matt Finch joins the tour as its opening act, his boy-next-door charm proves difficult for Reagan to resist, despite her vow to live a drama-free existence. This summer, Reagan and Lilah will navigate the ups and downs of fame and friendship as they come to see that giving your heart to the right person is always a risk worth taking. A fresh new voice in contemporary romance, Emery Lord’s gorgeous writing hits all the right notes.
Kristin Rae, WISH YOU WERE ITALIAN
ANSWER: I’d like to see Bruno befriend Alex Fuentes from Perfect Chemistry. I think Alex would be a good influence.
Pippa has always wanted to go to Italy … but not by herself. And certainly not to sit in art school the entire summer learning about dead guys’ paintings. When she steps off the plane in Rome, she realizes that traveling solo gives her the freedom to do whatever she wants. So it’s arrivederci, boring art program and ciao, hot Italian guys!Charming, daring, and romantic, Bruno is just the Italian Pippa’s looking for—except she keeps running into cute American archeology student Darren everywhere she goes. Pippa may be determined to fall in love with an Italian guy … but the electricity she feels with Darren says her heart might have other plans. Can Pippa figure out her feelings before her parents discover she left the program and—even worse—she loses her chance at love?
Jillian Cantor, SEARCHING FOR SKY
ANSWER: Sky has spent most of her life on a deserted island, so when she’s rescued and brought to California to live with her grandmother, everything about our modern world is foreign to her: cars, cell phones, Google, electricity. . .If I could introduce her to another character from another book I’d want to introduce her to a normal teenage girl who grew up in our world and who could help Sky adjust. She has this in the book in the form of Ben (her grandmother’s neighbor) but she doesn’t know any girls her age. So I would pick Belly from Jenny Han’s The Summer I Turned Pretty series. Not only could she teach Sky a lot but they could hang out at the beach together (Sky’s favorite place)!
Sky and River have always lived on Island, the only world they’ve ever known. Until the day River spots a boat. Across Ocean, in a place called California, Sky is separated from River and forced to live with a grandmother she’s just met. Here the rules for survival are different. People rely on strange things like cars and cell phones. They keep secrets from one another. And without River, nothing makes sense. Sky yearns for her old life where she was strong and capable, not lost and confused. She must find River so they can return to Island, but the truth behind how they ended up there in the first place will come as the biggest shock of all.
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Mandy Hubbard, FOOL ME TWICE
ANSWER: This is a fun question.  I’d love to see Callie, from Prada & Prejudice, introduced to Mack, from FOOL ME TWICE, because I feel like they’re super opposite and could learn from one another. Callie’s really shy and desperate to fit in, and Mack dyes her hair odd colors and makes weird jokes.
Mackenzie and Landon were the perfect couple . . . until he dumped her and broke her heart. Fast-forward a year and they’re back where they first met—Serenity Ranch and Spa, where they are once again working together for the summer. Talk about awkward.
Then, Landon takes a nasty fall and gets amnesia. Suddenly, he’s stuck in the past—literally. His most recent memory is of last summer, when he and Mack were still together, so now he’s calling her pet names and hanging all over her. It’s the perfect chance for revenge. The plan is simple: keep Landon at arm’s length, manipulate him so he’s the one falling love, and then BAM, dump him. There’s just one problem: Mack can’t fall for Landon all over again.
The If Only romance line is all about wanting what you can’t have, and Mandy Hubbard’s hilarious break-up/love story is sure to captivate anyone who has ever wished for a second shot at love.
Then, Landon takes a nasty fall and gets amnesia. Suddenly, he’s stuck in the past—literally. His most recent memory is of last summer, when he and Mack were still together, so now he’s calling her pet names and hanging all over her. It’s the perfect chance for revenge. The plan is simple: keep Landon at arm’s length, manipulate him so he’s the one falling love, and then BAM, dump him. There’s just one problem: Mack can’t fall for Landon all over again.
The If Only romance line is all about wanting what you can’t have, and Mandy Hubbard’s hilarious break-up/love story is sure to captivate anyone who has ever wished for a second shot at love.
Lindsey Leavitt, THE CHAPEL WARS
ANSWER: I would go with Dax from THE CHAPEL WARS. Or Mallory from GOING VINTAGE. Or really any of my characters would love the opportunity to meet Ghandi from… Ghandi’s autobiography. Because, I mean… Ghandi. I can exist a whole week on one sage Ghandi quote. Imagine a conversation.
Sixteen-year-old Holly wants to remember her Grandpa forever, but she’d rather forget what he left her in his will: his wedding chapel on the Las Vegas strip. Whatever happened to gold watches, savings bonds, or some normal inheritance?And then there’s Grandpa’s letter. Not only is she running the business with her recently divorced parents, but she needs to make some serious money–fast. Grandpa also insists Holly reach out to Dax, the grandson of her family’s mortal enemy and owner of the cheesy chapel next door. No matter how cute Dax is, Holly needs to stay focused: on her group of guy friends, her disjointed family, work, school and… Dax. No wait, not Dax.
Holly’s chapel represents everything she’s ever loved in her past. Dax might be everything she could ever love in the future. But as for right now, there’s a wedding chapel to save.
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