Growing up on Long Island, Shelby Richmond is an ordinary girl until one night an extraordinary tragedy changes her fate. Her best friend’s future is destroyed in an accident, while Shelby walks away with the burden of guilt. What happens when a life is turned inside out? When love is something so distant it may as well be a star in the sky? Faithful is the story of a survivor, filled with emotion—from dark suffering to true happiness—a moving portrait of a young woman finding her way in the modern world. A fan of Chinese food, dogs, bookstores, and men she should stay away from, Shelby has to fight her way back to her own future. In New York City she finds a circle of lost and found souls—including an angel who’s been watching over her ever since that fateful icy night. Here is a character you will fall in love with, so believable and real and endearing, that she captures both the ache of loneliness and the joy of finding yourself at last. For anyone who’s ever been a hurt teenager, for every mother of a daughter who has lost her way, Faithful is a roadmap.
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Put down whatever book you are reading right now and pick this book up. Also, clear out your calendar for the next day or so and just READ. This book had me hooked from the very first sentence. I was so hooked I read the book and didn't put it down until I was halfway through. The main character kind of starts out unlikeable but the author does a great job of making you see that what makes her unlikeable is superficial and that what's underneath it a real human being and someone who is worth knowing. In fact, at the end of the book I was so surprised by how much characters I had liked/disliked had changed. I had to remind myself at times of who they had been before the ending of this book. Now, I'm not going to lie I definitely cried at the end of this book but this book also made me think about the stories of the people around me everyday. I don't mean my family but rather the strangers I pass on the street everyday who may look unsavory or sad. After this book I'm going to wonder who are they and what lies ahead of them because of its anything like what Shelby experienced I can only smile for them.
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