Review: Heaven's Cry...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2014
Heaven’s CryBy: Charmaine GallowayThis story is about a teenage girl named Heaven. Heaven is a pastor’s daughter and her mother is the first lady of their church. She’s dealing with so much along with the everyday struggles of being a teenager.Heaven’s dealing with such as a teenager from being bullied at school to her sexuality. She feels she can’t talk to her parents because they always trying to keep the perfect image for the church. Her parents are always preaching and quoting Bible scriptures.Heaven has a best friend named Jordan who she has more than just friendly feelings for. She has no one to talk to about her feeling for Jordan. Her parent is so strict and live by the every word in the Bible that she’s afraid to even share her feelings. Her parents have tried to instill the Bible into her.When the bullies at school find out how she feels about Jordan they embarrass her during lunch. Heaven is so embarrassed they she starts fighting the bullies and ends up getting expelled out of the private school she has attended since starting school. Heaven has not be forced to go to public school and her parents was upset to say the least about her attending public school which their perfect family image is tainted.This was my first read by this author and I enjoyed this short story and look forward to reading more by this author. The storyline was good and touched on very important issues that teenagers are dealing with today.  I rated his title 4*.*Review Copy Provided By Author*