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Title: Golden
Author: Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Narrator: Jenna Lamia
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-17-08
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 21 votes
Genres: Religion & Spirituality, Religious Thought
Publisher's Summary:
But it's becoming clear that Emory High has a few secrets of its own. Around the halls, the term "special powers" goes way beyond one's ability to attract the opposite sex, and there may be something more evil than the A-crowd lurking in the classrooms. Lissy can see a lot more than the average girl, but she's about to learn the hard way that things aren't always as they appear and you can't always judge a girl by her lip gloss.
Members Reviews:
Paranormal High School Story
All the women in Lissy's family have the Sight - a psychic gift that Lissy would be more than glad to give up. After all, the Sight caused the family to move from California to Oklahoma because her mother's gift is finding lost things. Only she didn't find the kidnapped child before he was murdered and public sentiment has turned against her.
Lissy's gift is growing. Now she sees connections between people. This doesn't help in her new high school which is divided between the Goldens - the popular, beautiful people - and the Nons. She is thrown together with Lilah whose mother is dating Lissy's uncle and her crew of Goldens but soon finds her own crew with Nons Audra and Dylan.
Something evil is happening at her high school but she can't convince her mother and grandmother that her new math teacher is evil. This leaves Lissy, Audra, Dylan and Lissy's younger sister Lexie to find out what is going on and stop it before there are more deaths.
This is the author's first book and was written when she was nineteen. It has some rough edges but was an enjoyable paranormal story.
Golden
This book was pretty good overall. I actually read this years after it came out, after reading some of Barnes's other books. Unfortunately, her later books were all better than Golden, so for me Golden didn't seem as good. However, it was still a fun and refreshing story. The premise was great, very original and interesting. The plot was decent. It was a little hard to get into first, but after that I couldn't put the book down. One of my favorite elements in a story is suspense, and Barnes executed that perfectly. The characters were okay. I liked Lilah and Lexie, but Lissy, the main character, was a little flat. As a reader I didn't really get a good sense of her character.
When you look at the whole story, though, this book is a promising debut for an author. Jennifer Lynn Barnes has potential as a writer, improving her writing in her later books. I would recommend this to anyone looking for a light, fun, and refreshing page-turner with a paranormal element. I would also recommend Barnes's other books.
A Fun High School Mystery
The beginning is slow, but once you get into it, Golden is a novel that is hard to put down. There were revelations that actually surprised me once the mystery started to unravel. Because while this is very much your typical unpopular-girl-trying-to-navigate-her-way-through-high-school sort of book, it also has a rather intriguing mystery attached to it. I was definitely more interested in this than Lissy's analyses about how much of a freak she is, so it's a good thing that the mystery takes over in the latter half of the novel.
While it's a good story, it's apparent that the author was young when she wrote this. The characters lack complexity and a lot of the conflict is superficial.