In the anticipated sequel to the heart-wrenching novel Inebriated, Neon Nights will keep you on the edge of your seat with another wild ride into Cait's life.
Title: Neon Nights : A Sequel
Author: Katey Taylor
Genre: YA
Release Date: 24th March 2020
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Liquor
and lust and troubled boys who are hard to trust...
After a harrowing summer riddled with tragedies, seventeen-year-old Cait is forced to deal with the aftermath of poor choices and failed relationships.
Will Cait be able to continue her journey despite the heavy chains from her past, or will she be dragged down by the same mistakes?
After a harrowing summer riddled with tragedies, seventeen-year-old Cait is forced to deal with the aftermath of poor choices and failed relationships.
Will Cait be able to continue her journey despite the heavy chains from her past, or will she be dragged down by the same mistakes?
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Katey Taylor's heart-wrenching debut novel will have you strapped into the intense rollercoaster ride of Cait's life and one chaotic summer that will change it all.
Author: Katey Taylor
Genre: YA
Release Date: 26th February 2019
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Barely seventeen
and as pretty as can be: the summer is their playground. Cait and her best
friends Steph and Allie take on San Francisco's party scene with fake IDs and
short dresses.
When Cait meets Adrien Cross, the charismatic lead singer of her favorite indie band, she's introduced to a hedonistic world of liquor and lust that she never wants to leave.
But then that world spirals out of control and the harsh realities of reckless living take a toll on Cait and the ones she loves.
What will be left when the makeup masks wash off, the bottles are empty, and Cait begins to lose her grip on everything?
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Katey Taylor
is the author behind the emotionally wrenching young adult novel, Inebriated. Katey's passion for storytelling stemmed not
long after she first learned to write with a pencil. Every story she writes is
infused with a piece of her heart and her absolute muses of music and travel.
She's a San Francisco Bay Area native living in a house that sits on a bayside
lagoon with her husband and two cats.
Can you tell us what Neon Nights is
all about? Neon
Nights is a raw and
emotional story that follows seventeen-year-old main character Cait and the
serious issues she has to tackle in front of her. Neon Nights is
a spiral of events dealing with boys with bad intentions, drugs, and new drama.
This is the second book in the series. How does Neon Nights continue
the story of Cait that you began in your first book, Inebriated?
Neon
Nights picks up
right where Cait left off in Inebriated but due to the life-altering
incidences that took place in the previous book, Cait’s whole world is turned
upside down. Readers will be able to dive right in and see the immediate new
challenges she faces, and whether your rooting for her or screaming at her, you
won’t be able to look away.
You write about a lot of very real topics. Are these novels based
on any true experiences?
At
first, I strictly denied my life had any relation to my books. Fiction is
fiction. But it was getting hard to deny that was true to friends and family
who had read the books. I grew up in a San Francisco Bay Area suburb and snuck
away to San Francisco to party in my teen and young adult years. Like a lot of
teens, I experienced or was around underage drinking, drugs and the aftermath
that comes with that. Cait’s story is not my story but a lot of the emotion and
experiences she goes through are similar to mine. I think Cait did take on my
teenage persona maybe more than I’d like, but I also think I wrote her
qualities I wish I had back then. Cait might not be able to see the bad or danger
in people at first, but when she does she is willing to stand up for herself
and for the ones she loves. I think her inner strength is one of her best
traits.
Music is an obvious theme in the books, and Adrien is a musician.
Is he inspired by any real-life musicians?
Oh
boy. Adrien definitely morphed into his own real character, but I will admit
when I first started to write him, I was inspired by a particular lead singer
of an indie band called The 1975. His aesthetic mostly, and I’ve seen him play
live many times and he exudes that sort of the slick, dark, wounded musician
vibe that Adrien carries.
Do you listen to any particular music while writing?
I
have to listen to music while I write, they both go hand and hand so naturally
for me. When writing a scene, I usually pick a song that relates to what I’m
writing, and I will play it on repeat for hours to help me visualize the
setting or express a certain emotion. My music taste is quite eclectic. Indie
rock is my go-to, but I love older bands like Fleetwood Mac or Van Morrison.
I’m also a huge pop fan probably because I grew up listening to Britney Spears
and N*sync. But when writing, I will listen to any song in any genre with deep
emotions or lyrics that inspire me.
Social media is such a massive part of teenagers lives these days.
What message about social media did you want to portray to your readers?
A
minor plot point in Cait’s story in the books is she was admired and often
criticized on social media. Yet all of those people had not a clue about the
hardships she endured on a daily basis. Life isn’t always what it seems, and
just because your seemingly pretty and popular doesn’t mean that life is easy
or that you don’t make terrible decisions.
Besides a great read, what else do you hope teens get from Neon Nights?
Not
just teens, but parents of teens could read these books as an eye opener to
what teenagers are capable of getting themselves into. You might think your kid
– or you! – wouldn’t do things like this but sadly those are the people who end
up blindsided by addiction issues, find themselves in a toxic relationship, or
make the simple mistake as getting in the car with someone under the influence.
These things sadly do happen every day. I hope by tackling some of the harder
topics of being a teen with truth and honestly, I’ll help my readers think
about their choices when in stickier situations, and think about doing what is
best for themselves and the people they love.
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