In My Head: A sports fiction teen romance novel
About
Teenage baller Kaden Hastings has a fit when his family moves to California. He can handle the new medical diagnosis that slowly eats away at his life, but when his parents separate him from his teammates and girlfriend to move him to California to see an epilepsy specialist, Kaden can't deal with it anymore.
Logan Hastings has a confession. For him, the move is a chance to finally help his brother, who now has no one else to turn to for support. Logan finds that helping his brother means lying at school, lying at home, and even letting Kaden risk his life for basketball. Still plagued with guilt for causing Kaden's epilepsy, Logan must choose between helping his brother live and giving him something to live for.
When Kaden spots a mysterious girl at his new epilepsy clinic, he's drawn to her, and not just because they have several things in common. When Logan pushes Kaden to get with a cheerleader at his new school, Kaden is left with a choice: the popular cheerleader who reminds him that he used to play basketball, or the mysterious girl in his art class who can relate to him, because she has epilepsy, too.
In My Head is the first book in a trilogy about the unpredictability of life and the lengths we will go to take back control, fix our mistakes, and protect the ones we love.
The first edition contains multiple points of view and backstory for the mysterious girl at the epilepsy clinic.
Praise for this book
Love this whole book series. Will be one I go back to many times. It pulls at your heart while keeping you engaged with every page. Very accurate and real to life, is a series I would recommend to any teen or lover of teen fiction.
This is an exciting first novel. The wide cast of characters is compelling and believable: each character clearly wants something, and he or she pursues that thing, even when the decisions made in pursuit of that thing are not always the smartest choices (just like real people, right?). The novel also has a rich, rich knowledge of the aspects of life that loom largest for these characters: epilepsy, basketball, teenage longing. I found myself thinking about this book when I was supposed to be working on other things, and when I was busy doing other fun stuff, I realized I was resenting those fun things because I so badly wanted to get back to the book. Definitely recommended! I can't wait for volume 2. [Full disclosure: I'm related to the author. Full disclosure x2: But I'm not a nice enough person to pretend I liked the book if I didn't!]