Welcome to my stop on the DEEPER blog tour! Today I have the author's playlist for the book and don't forget to enter the tour wide giveaway at the bottom of the post!
Deeper (Caroline & West #1)
Author: Robin York
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance
Release Date: January 28, 2014
Publisher: Bantam (Random House)
Description:
In this New
Adult debut by Robin York, a college student is attacked online and must
restore her name—and stay clear of a guy who’s wrong for her, but feels
so right.
When Caroline Piasecki’s ex-boyfriend posts their sex pictures on the Internet, it destroys her reputation as a nice college girl. Suddenly her once-promising future doesn’t look so bright. Caroline tries to make the pictures disappear, hoping time will bury her shame. Then a guy she barely knows rises to her defense and punches her ex to the ground.
West Leavitt is the last person Caroline needs in her life. Everyone knows he’s shady. Still, Caroline is drawn to his confidence and swagger—even after promising her dad she’ll keep her distance. On late, sleepless nights, Caroline starts wandering into the bakery where West works.
They hang out, they talk, they listen. Though Caroline and West tell each other they’re “just friends,” their feelings intensify until it becomes impossible to pretend. The more complicated her relationship with West gets, the harder Caroline has to struggle to discover what she wants for herself—and the easier it becomes to find the courage she needs to fight back against the people who would judge her.
When all seems lost, sometimes the only place to go is deeper.
When Caroline Piasecki’s ex-boyfriend posts their sex pictures on the Internet, it destroys her reputation as a nice college girl. Suddenly her once-promising future doesn’t look so bright. Caroline tries to make the pictures disappear, hoping time will bury her shame. Then a guy she barely knows rises to her defense and punches her ex to the ground.
West Leavitt is the last person Caroline needs in her life. Everyone knows he’s shady. Still, Caroline is drawn to his confidence and swagger—even after promising her dad she’ll keep her distance. On late, sleepless nights, Caroline starts wandering into the bakery where West works.
They hang out, they talk, they listen. Though Caroline and West tell each other they’re “just friends,” their feelings intensify until it becomes impossible to pretend. The more complicated her relationship with West gets, the harder Caroline has to struggle to discover what she wants for herself—and the easier it becomes to find the courage she needs to fight back against the people who would judge her.
When all seems lost, sometimes the only place to go is deeper.
Advance praise for Deeper:
“The perfect new adult story . . . West will make you swoon!”—New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy
“Beautifully written and full of swoony tender moments, toe-curling chemistry, and delicious, twisty angst . . . Stop whatever you’re doing and read this book.”—Christina Lauren, author of the Beautiful Bastard series
A Deeper Playlist by Robin York
Hi everybody! I’m excited to be sharing this playlist from Deeper with you guys today, but I have to make a confession. I didn’t make it.
I know! But the thing is, I don’t listen to music when I write, and when I do listen to music, it’s generally folk music and old and so desperately uncool that West and Caroline from Deeper would not listen to it in a million, trillion years.
Luckily, my good friend and writing critique partner Mary Ann Rivers is much more diverse and up-to-date in her musical talents than I am. She’s also more familiar with Deeper than anyone else alive except me, having read the scenes as I wrote them, day by day, and offered me countless suggestions for making the book better. Mary Ann knows Deeper. Which is why I feel totally comfortable stealing the playlist she made for the book and passing it off as my own. Plus, I can vouch for the awesomeness of this playlist, because I listened to it when I wasn’t trying to write.
Spotify playlist: DEEPER
1. “Prove It” by Television
2. “I Don’t Mind” by The Buzzcocks
3. “The Sinking Feeling” by The The
4. “Just Like a Woman” by Charlotte Gainsbourg & Calexico
5. “Jenny” by The Mountain Goats
6. “These Days” by The Rentals
7. “Come As You Are - Live Version” by Nirvana
8. “Books Written for Girls” by Camera Obscura
9. “The Size of Our Love” by Sleater-Kinney
10. “Life in a Northern Town” by The Dream Academy
11. “First Day of My Life” by Bright Eyes
12. “Two Weeks” by Grizzly Bear
13. “Angel of the Morning” by Juice Newton
14. “Call Me Margaret” by Agent Ribbons
15. “Listen the Snow Is Falling” by Galaxie 500
16. “Your Ghost” by Kristin Hersh
The songs that resonate most with Deeper for me are, first, the live version of “Come As You Are” by Nirvana, from MTV Unplugged. I love the raw quality of Cobain’s voice here. He sounds like he spent last night screaming, or possibly weeping uncontrollably, strung-out, shaking in a corner, and now he’s got to perform this song, which he does. He performs the hell out of it. There are scenes early in Deeper where West and Caroline are meeting in the middle of the night at the bakery that feel like this song to me—gritty and hoarse, a little bit painful, a whole lot come-as-you-are.
The next standout song for me is “Books Written for Girls” by Camera Obscura, which, first, I just love the sound of this song. It’s like a five-year-old girl in an eyelet dress, rocking back and forth from toes to heels, singing a song about Satan. It sounds young and poignant, but if you listen closely it’s about things beneath the surface—people who aren’t as they seem. “People get shattered in many ways,” she sings. “They can disappoint you if you see through their perfect smiles.” This is a Caroline-and-Nate song: it’s about a relationship where the woman is judged and feels it. But it’s also a song about moving on, about change. “I think separation is okay,” she says. “You’re no star to guide me anyway.” Damn straight.
But my very favorite song here, my West-and-Caroline-happy-ending song, is “First Day of My Life” by Bright Eyes. Because of this:
Yours is the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
Now I don't know where I am
I don't know where I've been
But I know where I want to go
And so I thought I'd let you know
That these things take forever
I especially am slow
But I realize that I need you
And I wondered if I could come home
I would kind of like to put all the lyrics in here, but I know you probably wouldn’t read them, and anyway you should listen to the song, because it’s beautiful. It’s a song about rebirth. It’s about finding the right person, connecting, starting over, and even though you’re not sure quite where you’re headed, knowing you’re going to be okay together.
Which is West and Caroline, to an absolute T.
Robin York grew up at a college, went to college, signed on for some more college, and then married a university professor. She still isn’t sure why it didn’t occur to her to write New Adult sooner. Writing as Ruthie Knox, she is a USA TODAY bestselling author of contemporary romance, including RITA-finalists About Last Night and Room at the Inn. She moonlights as a mother, makes killer salted caramels, and sorts out thorny plot problems while running, hiking, or riding her bike.
Author Links:
Website: http://www.ruthieknox.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RobinYorkNA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/writerrobinyork
Author Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7279470.Robin_York
DEEPER Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18525821-deeper?ac=1
Amazon author page: http://www.amazon.com/Robin-York/e/B00G194QRC/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
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It seems like this book is relevant for today's society. Online security is an oxymoron!
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I'd love to meet West and see how she handles such a horrible experience! Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI want to see how Caroline handles her onlie situation.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious how Caroline resolves the "revenge porn" bullying and whether she pursues a relationship with West.
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