Review: Not believable
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 20, 2013
This is available as a short story and a novel (Spin the Plate: A Novel).  I imagine the novel does a better job of presenting the profound shifts the main character, Jo, undergoes.  In short story form, it is just too rushed.Jo is a unhappy woman who is a tattoo artist during the day and a street roamer by night.  She seems profoundly unhappy, for reasons that are made clear, throughout the course of the story.  One day she meets a young man, Francis, who reaches out to her.  The legal elements of the story seemed a bit far-fetched (wouldn't you go to the police to make a complaint of child abuse, not a lawyer?  And even if you did go to a lawyer, would the lawyer really ask you how long you wanted the person to be in jail and then make it happen?).  Jo's actions didn't always make sense -- like why she kept in touch with her family at all or why she visited her father.  Maybe these things are clearer in the novel.I would have appreciated a call-out in the item description that this was Christian fiction.