Review: Young Love, Young Secrets!  TWO Short Stories! One Fabulous Read!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2014
Sit back and truly enjoy this light-hearted YA contemporary romance, spoken through the thoughts and words of a nineteen-year-old male who becomes enamored of a teen rock star who was only to be a photo assignment. Troy’s dreams of stardom have been dashed; he is out of money and out of luck, so he takes a job that will give him enough money to go home. Simple enough, grab a candid photo of hot teen star, Ashlyn Sunshine. What he discovers is, Ashlyn is a real person, warm, sometimes insecure, beautiful, smart and as lonely as he is. Caught between his conscience for using her, he confesses, she offers the shot, but there is something sparking between them. Could it be possible someone as amazing as Ashlyn could return his feelings of budding love or is he only creating another heartbreaking dream that will never come true?Author Lena Goldfinch has done it AGAIN! Take a Picture is a delightfully sweet romantic tale that downplays the angst and plays up the innocence and joy of two hearts connecting, even if only for a brief time. Ashlyn and Troy are both warm and caring characters who are a product of their situations, not making judgments on each other, but seeing the person for who and what they really are, inside. Although short, there is an entire tale here, fresh and paced wonderfully.And if creating wonderful tale is not enough, Ms. Goldfinch has added a prequel for another of her works! Chain Reaction is going to take you back to those awkward days in school when breaking a chain letter was one of the ultimate sins. The only thing worse is having your chain letter answers spread all over school, and having to live with the results! Joy learns the hard way why chain letters are trouble. How would you react if one of your most private thoughts became fodder for the gossip mills?I received this copy from Lean Goldfinch in exchange for my honest review.