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Review: Caught Up in the Drama - ReShonda Tate Billingsley

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Review: Caught up in the Drama - Book #7 Good Girlz Series - ReShonda Tate Billingsley - April 2010 2021, was the year I decided to try and focus finally on clearing my kindle with old books. Especially since I didn't have the distraction of the new books coming into the library, since I no longer work there. The Good Girlz is a series I discovered so many moons ago and finally I have read almost the whole series. Caught up in Drama tells us the story of Camille who not only wins her school talent show when everyone discovers the beautiful set of pipes on her but she also gets the chance to sing and star in a Sisco music video. At first, Camille's friends are happy for her but soon as the video and that side start to take over her life, her life becomes divided and she starts to focus on the music side and her friends drift away. Camille can't see why she can't have both but soon jealousy sets in and Camille starts to lose her friends and boyfriend. However, what will...

Review: Friends Til the End - ReShonda Tate Billingsley

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Review: Friends Til' The End - Book #6 Good Girlz Series - ReShonda Tate Billingsley - February 2009. Back in 2007-2009, I started a great YA Christian series set with a strong African-American / Hispanic feel to it. That series was called Good Girlz by ReShonda Tate Billingsley. As many readers of my reviews will know, this year I made the goal to try and read some of my older books off my devices. As I was scrolling through, I came across ReShonda Tate Billingsley's books of the Good Girlz. I clicked into Friends Til the End and was instantly reunited with the characters of Jasmine, Angel, Camille, and Alexis and their youth group leader Rachel. In Friends Til' the End we mainly focus on Jasmine as she is caught in a Romeo and Juliet situation when her boyfriend's twin brother is accused of shooting Jasmine's brother. Jasmine's brother was clean and on his way to big things until his life was drastically cut short. Now Jasmine is torn between her love of CJ...