Friends 'til the End

Good Girlz #6

by ReShonda Tate Billingsley

The sixth book in The Good Girlz series from national bestselling author ReShonda Tate Billingsley
It's for real - Jasmine's in love! She never thought she'd be boy-crazy like her girlfriends Camille, Alexis, and Angel, but now Jasmine and football star C.J. Taylor are inseparable - they've even been voted the school's cutest couple. And with love in the air, everything seems to be going right: Jasmine's mom has allowed her and C.J. to go out on dates, and even her relationship with her brother Jaquan has improved. Maybe love is contagious!
But Jasmine's happiness is shattered when a neighborhood gang begins harassing Jaquan - and trouble quickly escalates to tragedy. With C.J. and his family caught in the crossfire of lies and violence, Jasmine will have to hold on tighter than ever to her faith, to the friends who have never let her down... and to the belief that love truly does conquer all.

Genres: Young Adult, Christian, Romance, Chick Lit

208 pages, Paperback

First published December 23, 2008

About the author

ReShonda Tate Billingsley is a general assignment reporter for KRIV-TV, the Fox affiliate in Houston, Texas. She is the author of the nonfiction book Help! I've Turned Into My Mother! and three previous adult novels: My Brother's Keeper, for which she received the prestigious Gold Pen Award for Best New Author from the Black Writer's Alliance and the Nova Lee Nation Award from the Greater Dallas Writing Association; the national bestseller Let the Church Say Amen, chosen for Library Journal's Best of 2004 list for Christian fiction; and I Know I've Been Changed, a Main Selection of the Black Expressions Book Club.
Her previous Christian teen novels are Nothing But Drama and Blessings in Disguise, both available from Pocket Books.
She is also a contributor to the story anthology Have a Little Faith.

Reviews

[Paula Phillips · Rating 3 out of 5]

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 and her family loyalty and then left with wondering about God and why he would let this happen to her brother of all people? Angel is wanting her baby daddy Marcus to buck up his ideas and take responsibility, will it take a near-death experience to get Marcus to get to know his daughter? Can Jasmine's friends help her stay strong and not fall into a spiraling hole with grief and stray from God? Find out in Friends Til' the End by ReShonda Tate Billingsley, a story that shows the power of friendships and support in the time of tragedy

[Sierra Turner · Rating 4 out of 5]

By ReShonda Tate Billingsley

Friends Til' The End is a book that will leave you speechless. ReShonda Billingsley really did out done herself with this book about, A young girl name Jasmine, who has to overcome many difficult obstacles that she faces after a horrible tragic has happen. She has to deal with the pressure of trying to keep her family happy and staying together with the love of her life ! With the support of her friends by her side, Jasmine attempts to rebuild her life again.

Love is in the air for sixteen year old Jasmine Jones. She never thought she would be in love with a boy, but fell head over heels for her boyfriend of three months,C.J. Everything seems to be going perfect for her. Her mom approved of her having a boyfriend, she even let them go on dates. Everything at school seemed to be going perfect, The Good Girlz club were going great and to top it all of her realtionship with her brother Jaquan has improved. But was it all just too good to be true ?


All of Jasmine's happiness could be soon shattered, when she realizes the neighborhood gang starts to harass her younger brother. Trouble soon turns to tragedy. With her boyfriend C.J. and his family caught in the crossfire between lies, violence, and trust. Jasmine will soon have to turn to her frinds who have never let her down, she would have to have faith in what she believe in, and hold on tighter to the one thing that conquers all, LOVE !

[April Nichole · Rating 5 out of 5]

This series just gets better and better. I think this could be my favorite one. Gang violence is something that really happens and it can be devastating. How can someone deal with losing a family member? Sometimes when you have such a great loss you want to shut out the world but the girls pull together and deal with what happened and in learning who actually did it.
As a side story Angel gets another encounter with the father of her baby. Every child should get to grow up knowing there father so Angel tries to get him involved somehow. It is a difficult thing for her to do but she is learning to think like a young mother and think about what is best for her daughter.
I don't know how many books are planned for this series but I am hoping for many more. Billingsley has a lot talent to spread many great and needed messages.

[Jaiden emerson · Rating 3 out of 5]

i think it will be a great book

[BCPL Youth Services Librarian]

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[Dominique morris]

love it

[Prinsesita Diana · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a good book it made me more close to my friend

[Jasmine]

it was good