Review: Promising debuet novel
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 14, 2014
A debut novel by Faith S LynnThe story is about a girl named Katrina Brown.  In the prologue you are introduced to Katrina when she is 12 years old.  She is in the bathroom wanting to end her life, she takes a pair of scissors and slices her wrist.  As the blood trickles and lands on the floor, she decides at this moment maybe life can get better….. What could possibly have happened to this child to make her want to end her life? This sucked me into this story as I had to find out what and what would become of her.Jump forward 9 years…Katrina has graduated high school, left her family and small town behind and does not look back. Chapter one opens the day of her 21st birthday. She is attending college and lives with her two best friends Lexi and Skeigh. She meets Ryder Hudson a hot tattooed guy at a party. Ryder also had a story to tell of his childhood.  Katrina is in a big sister program and has a little sister named Jamie. Jamie is a shy 13 year old girl that does not have friends. But with Katrina’s help she starts to come out of her shell and has even made a friend. Katrina is always there for Jamie to talk to and once a week on Sundays they spend the whole day together and do fun things.Katrina’s friend Skeigh owns a clothing shop in down town Chattanooga called Sinful. She has an appointment with a new customer Ms Bran that is a journalist.  Ms Bran invites Skeigh and her roommates to dinner.  Lexi really wants to go to find out who Ms Bran has her eyes set on interviewing.  The girls are listened to her adventures in other cities trying to find women to feature in her magazine. When they are finished eating Lexi asks Ms Bran, so, have you found the source of your next article? She told her that she came to here with a specific story she wanted to cover, she states that she knows the woman is in Chattanooga but doesn’t seem to exist or has changed her last name. Katrina instantly thinks to herself there is no way she could be referring to her. How would she know about her story anyway, no one believed her any way. This really got my curiosity going!  Ms Bran knows that it is Katrina that she wants to talk to and ends up meeting up with her at school to try and get her to tell her story. Katrina does not want to talk about what happened, no one believed her then why would they believe her now……Like the saying goes; your past always catches up with you no matter how far you run....I will leave my review right here, I do not want to ruin the story by telling you everything. But I will say that I really enjoyed this book and can’t wait to see what Faith Lynn has to write next!  I gave this book a 4 and a half stars! And a big thumbs up! Very well written with characters that are easy to love.