Review: Every teen should read this!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 15, 2012
GENRE: YA ContemporaryTHEME: Growth/RomanceRECEIVED: Received for Review for TourBLOG: [...]REVIEW:After reading Double Clutch I was so excited to dig into another book by Liz Reinhardt. Forgiving Trinity takes a darker more serious subject that teens may face through high school. High School is one of toughest years to get through faced with the pressures of drugs, alcohol and just plain old bad decisions. Reinhardt takes the reader through a journey, following a young girl who hits rock bottom and is trying to redeem herself.Trinity has finally hit the bottom of the barrel, after all the mistakes in her life this last one was the worst. After on horrible night where she find herself taking a dog to the hospital after hitting it while driving high and then lets her friend take the blame for crashing the car, Trinity finally knows she needs to change. Coming back from her Uncles home after coping and learning from her mistakes, she tries to put her life back together with her family and friends.Trinity is a girl who is extremely hard on herself after everything that happened. Which is understandable to a point, but did get a little annoying with her fears and running away. Towards the middle of the novel is where she really redeemed herself, fighting to start over with new friends and apologizing to old ones. I really enjoyed her bond with her family, they all went through a lot but really began to see Trinity grow up. Trinity really starts to find herself more once she gains an extremely good friend in her classmate Ruth and starts communicating more with her brother Christian.Aiden, Trinity so called knight and shinning armor, the one who took the blame that horrible night. He was one complicated but charming guy; he went down the same bad path as Trinity and has always cared for Trinity behind the scenes. There chemistry was amazing and I was pulling for Trinity to just trust Aiden and stop running away. In the end both learned a little something from one in other about who they were and should be now.Overall, even with the slow pace at the beginning I really enjoyed Forgiving Trinity. This is defiantly a story with a message for teenagers and characters that you really root for. I highly recommend reading any book by Liz Reinhardt.RECOMMENDATION:This is a young adult novel that focuses on a mature teen topic. Fans of the writings of authors Jennifer Echols and Megan Curd will enjoy Liz Reinhardt's Forgiving Trinity.