review 1: Actual rating: 2.5 stars (I bumped it to 3 on my official rating due to the super sweet, albeit super cheesy, ending). In Trinkets, 3 girls that are NOT friends (totally different social classes) bond at their Shopaholics Anonymous meetings. Friendship, drama, and hilarity ensues. Kind of. Told in 3 POVs - Elodie's story is told in verse (she's a budding poet), Moe's story is told in journals (she's introspective), and Tabitha's story is told in prose (she's a future blogger). Interesting but mostly ineffective storytelling device. It did make for a quick read, though. I found this story to be very dated. Published in 2013, so prob written in 2012. And it felt like it with all the Kardashian, Katy Perry, and other pop culture references. As for Gateway, it's a ... morenope. review 2: Three girls from three totally different world’s have one thing in common. They all go to they same school, but don’t know each other until the meet in Shoplifter’s anonymous. In the book Trinkets by Kirsten Smith she writes a story of three girls who all shoplift. They are caught and have the choice of jail time or a support group. Moe is already in SA when Tabitha and Elodie join. They meet and become friends. They act like they have no clue at school but then after school they go to the mall and they have a competition on who can steal the best thing. They become really close and eventually Elodie and Tabitha see Moe purchasing something that Moe later claims she stole. The girls get mad at her and think she has been doing that the whole time. She is later able to convince them it was just that one time. They eventually all become great friend’s and acknowledge it at school. less
