Blog Tour Stop including Teasers, Review & Giveaway – The Hard Count by Ginger Scott

This book y’all!! Ginger Scott has become one of the few authors where I just read the book no questions asked. I am never disappointed and The Hard Count was no different.I am actually gonna start backwards! Ugly doesn’t have a color. It lives among selfishness and hate. And as much as this story is about football… it’s also about that.
I mean really! So gorgeous and so poignant! I wish these words weren’t hidden among the acknowledgments because they just resonate with the beauty that was hidden among most of the pages of this beautiful piece of work.They all seem like heroes-bigger than life, and juiced with aggression and desire for victory. The Hard Count is emotional story telling at it’s best. Ginger wove a tale that has a finger on the pulse of real issues that not only plague our cities but that are in the forefront of what is taking place in a our world right now. There is always going to be someone who doesn’t like the idea of two people together. Black, white Latino, gay, rich, people-it’s all just shit we make a big deal out of,
The fact that she was able to captivate and entrance me as a reader by embracing this topic,that is not new and IS difficult, just speaks to her ability as a story teller.Honestly, I just loved everything about this book. It was sweet. It was fresh. The characters were super likable, believable, well written, etc. I loved Nico and Reagan. They were great. The thing though is that every character was instrumental to this story. Reagan’s dad, Nico’s mom, even Nico’s brother. I felt like they were all perfectly developed; Every nuance was realistic, every word was in line with the character’s personality.I could go on and on. Truth is that it was a great story told by an unbelievably talented and gifted author that has a way with words. The words in this novel need to be experienced. I find one that’s both our height, and it’s a place where the metal is melted into a odd thickness–the only place where the latticework is uneven. I like that it isn’t perfect, and if I’m tethering myself to something, I think it should look a little amiss. There’s comfort in imperfection. I believe this is Ginger’s best work to date and I can’t wait for everyone to read it.