Jenna Paperback – November 10, 2016

Heading back home after selling her Grandmother’s pendent, because she hated her grandmother, and she hopes to have a nice wedding with her fiancé, hoping that Chris is worth it.When picking up a hitchhiker that has a life very different to Jenna’s, after an accident and a split-second decision, Jenna wonder’s what it would be like to live Katt’s life, and decides she has nothing to lose. Deciding it’s worth it to have a break from her life, Jenna heads on Katt’s adventures and pretends to be Katt.It ends with a twist that you won’t see coming, although most things are answered there are still some that leave Jenna with questions. Jenna changes from someone who wasn’t sure of what she wanted in life - to getting her happily ever after and everything she ever wanted all by taking a change and changing her life.

This book is in desperate need of a storyline editor!!It has the potential to be a great book, which is why I gave it two stars instead of one.A lot of things didn't make sense to me. The biggest one, Jena taking on someone else's life after a big car crash. She literally took on a new persona to the point of sheer stupidity. It's not until the end of the book that the reasoning began to make sense. However, I wanted to pull my damn hair out with how many times the author kept repeating the character's new name 'Katt's steak arrives', 'Katt notices..', 'Katt finishes her steak', 'Katt feels a bit out of place'. This is all in one page! Seriously, it's okay to say 'she' somethimes, we know exactly who's mindset the book is in. For the love of all books, I beg of the author to edit the number of times the book says Katt. There is this awesome technology where you can actually see how many times you used the same word in a story, check it out and cut back on the overuse of the name.For the record, I'm truly not trying to be mean, I just couldn't enjoy the book with the constant reminder of the character's name, and when I put the book on speech-to-text it was 100 times worse!!On a positive note, I liked the twist at the end of the book! Nice job catching this reader off guard with the ending!

This is a great book for Australians to read. It's got some really good Aussie slang. I kept having to remember it was set back in '95. I could relate to a lot of stuff and I really liked the humour. It's a unique story. It's quite an adventure. The author has done their own thing, not trying to follow a trend or write the same way everyone else usually writes with the same old same old stuff. I like how it's different and you can't guess what's going to happen. I was invested the whole time.

From first page throughout your on a ride to see what happends next it's reminds me of falling down a rabbit hole your on an adventure your Jenna and her story changes you never know what's happening next this author takes you on a wild ride of every changing life I love this Author and so will you and Jenna will be you next book you keep and tell others

First time reading Shay Bell's work - absolutely brilliant! Well written, great use of Aussie slang and the glossary for non Australians to understand! Shay Bell is an author I'd read again and again.

This is a great concept for a story and a wonderful read. Not a book to miss!!

One of the things I love about being a book reviewer is getting to discover new debut titles and Jenna was one of those titles. Going into the book Jenna , I was unsure of what to expect as all I knew was that it had a GLBT theme as well as being what the author considered a dark fiction novel. Think about your life , the way you have it right now ? Would you give it up in a heartbeat if you were given the opportunity ? If you could completely re-invent yourself with the only exception being you have to sever ties with everybody and start new - would you take it ? I have to personally admit that this thought has crossed my mind several times as who out there is so happy with their lives that they wouldn't like a do-over . As soon as I started reading it , I was hooked as we first met Jenna who is Australian and getting a ring from the local jewellers as we can gather that their is marriage possibly in the wings for her and her fiance Chris. The next thing we know Jenna is picking up a hitchhiker named Katt and then this is where things start to get interesting as tragedy strikes . When I got to this part, it made me wonder whether Jenna would be a paranormal type novel with an alternate universe angle and in one way it was and another way it wasn't. The novel starts to pick up quite quickly as Jenna takes Katt's identity and walks away from her mundane life as she knows it but during this time, she discovers that Katt wasn't who she thought she was in fact she is much more dangerous and Jenna is drawn into a world of danger, sex and criminals. What I liked about the book Jenna was that throughout the main chunk of the story , the author kept up that fast-paced novel and the actions that Katt takes draws the reader in. Near the end of the story, we readers are in for a massive twist and again in a way I saw this ending coming as it had confirmed some thoughts I had throughout the story. If you are looking for a fast-paced novel and someone new to try , then check out Jenna by Shay Bell as you will not be disappointed with this particular read. Also I don't know about the rest of you but I was starting to fall for Mr. Boots or Lock as we get to know him as, so readers - he's mine and he's been added to my Book Boyfriend List

This is the second of Shay's books I've read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Bit disappointed with the ending but can't spoil it for those of you who haven't read it. Suffice to say I liked the sound of Lock! Good story with believable characters. Well worth a read.

Jenna took us on an amazing journey full of many twists and turns. Shay Bell created a fantastic book that kept you guessing until the very end!! Very well written!!! A must read!!! Would highly recommend!!!

Well written and a fun story.