SKIN by BB Easton

I have to be honest here. I wasn't sure what I was getting myself into when I first read this book. I didn’t realize that this goes hand in hand with “44 Chapters About 4 Men”. I didn’t know that this was part of a Spin-Off series.

So, I dove right in and I have to admit – I was little more than shocked. Don’t get me wrong. I loved the book. I loved the characters, and I absolutely loved the story line.

We meet BB, because her name is Brooke Bradley as a 15 year old, who seems to be in love with a Punk kid. And I mean that in the sense that he wears faded black pants, black shirt, faded black converse with a faded green Mohawk. So no, I’m not being a brat by calling him a Punk, he just is. Or portrays to be. Anyways, her sole purpose for her sophomore year is for Lance Hightower to confess his undying love to her, get married and have little tiny children. So, like any crazy teenager girl, she tries to fit the mold as best as she can to gain his attention.

Unfortunately for her, she garners someone else’s attention. Knight – AKA Skeletor the Skinhead. He’s brutal and cruel and evil. And according to the entire school population, he’s a Skinhead – with the whole outfit ensemble and black boots with red laces, skinny suspenders and all. We basically meet him as he’s whooping someone’s butt. We later find out it’s to defend BB’s “honor” because the kid was basically talking trash about her.

The book takes an interesting twist when little by little BB befriends Skeletor and really gets to know him. Not just who he’s portraying, but who he really is as a person. And let me just say, that I actually like that guy. Because he cares for her. Genuinely cares and loves her enough to look out for her and take care of her.

Theirs is a relationship that is all kinds of crazy… in every sense of the word.

And even though the book didn’t end the way in which I was hoping for, there is more of a journey that BB needs to take in order to become who she is in “44 Chapters”. So needless to say, yes I’ll continue reading the books that follow this one. And once I’ve read all four of them, then I’ll read “44 Chapters” -  as I think that it’ll make more sense to me!