4/15/20 In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety (The Cecily Taylor Series Book 2) By: Krysten Lindsay Hager

• Print Length: 221 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Clean Reads (September 3, 2019)
• Publication Date: September 3, 2019

Cecily wants a big life, but can she handle it?

Cecily feels like she has it all: great best friends, the beginnings of a career as a model/actress, and she's dating her favorite singer, Andrew Holiday. Then Cecily's best friend Lila begins to ditch her every time Lila's boyfriend calls. Cecily feels lost, but she and Andrew begin connecting more and she's never been in a relationship where she felt so understood. Andrew even begins to confide in her about his anxiety. Soon Cecily experiences her own anxiety on a magazine photo shoot, but she manages to impress the magazine staff. Just when it seems like all her dreams are coming true, everything comes crashing down when a photo of Andrew with another girl appears online. He swears nothing happened, but Cecily is crushed. She feels like she's lost two of the people closest to her.

Was her perfect relationship real or was she in over her head?

THOUGHTS/REVIEW:

In Over Her Head: Lights, Camera, Anxiety by Krysten Lindsay Hager is the second book in this YA contemporary romance and coming of age Cecily Taylor Series. A great follow up from Book One, Can Dreams Come True? which I enjoyed a lot and had fun reading. 

Cecily and Andrew are now an official couple and I love these two characters giving me swoon. Cecily gets an awesome opportunity in New York with Andrew's help, and she blows the job out of the water. Cecily is obviously very talented. However, just when you think life is going great, some bumps in the road challenges this budding relationship. I love that Hager writes characters with depth and emotional growth that is relatable and realistic. The cast of characters are also a joy to read about as well, even those characters that I was not really fond of. 

Overall, I found that the series was a great read that I thoroughly enjoyed for the characters, dialogue and all the angst you come to expect in a YA read. I enjoyed the story lines, the drama, the relationships and growth of the characters and how they handled the issues that come their way. Glad I had the opportunity to read this series. Highly entertaining and I loved it. 

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT:

Who knew all those embarrassing, cringe-y moments in middle school and high school could turn into a career? And who would have thought that daydreaming in math class would pay off down the road?

Krysten Lindsay Hager writes about friendship, self-esteem, fitting in, frenemies, crushes, fame, first loves, and values.

She is the author of True Colors, Best Friends...Forever?, Next Door to a Star, Landry in Like, Competing with the Star, Dating the It Guy, and Can Dreams Come True. True Colors, won the Readers Favorite award for best preteen book and the Dayton Book Expo Bestseller Award for children/teens. Competing with the Star is a Readers' Favorite Book Award Finalist. Landry in Like is a Literary Classics Gold Medal recipient. Krysten's work has been featured in USA Today, The Flint Journal, the Grand Haven Tribune, the Beavercreek Current, the Bellbrook Times, Springfield News-Sun, Grand Blanc View, Dayton Daily News and on Living Dayton.