Fifty Shades of Grey meets Damien in the sexy, spine-tingling thriller Death Is My BFF. Eighteen-year-old Author, Katarina E. Tonks, paints a vivid tale of Death personified and a young girl ironically dubbed Faith.
“For the first time, you will be able to put a face to both Death, and the Devil. For the first time, the villain might win” (“Summary,” par. 2). Katarina was fourteen when she penned the first copy of Death Is My BFF in 2011. She first put her story on Wattpad, an online storytelling community where users can publish their works to be critiqued by like-minded peers, under the screen name Katrocks247. Met with overwhelming positivity and winning a Watty, Wattpad’s most prestigious, she decided to publish her work using Amazon’s Self-Publishing, a program for novelist to sell copies of their books without having to go through publisher. Unfortunately, she only sold a handful of copies, so she took it down and got back to work on revising her book.A few years later in the year 2014, the new and improved DISMBFF was finally completed. Now with over 2,000 copies on pre-order and the …show more content…
She is instantly sought out by Angels and Demons alike. I find the symbolism in the book top-notch ,Faith is an allusion to mankind and our daily struggle in the internal battle of good versus evil. She is constantly tempted by a man who is quite literally hotter than hell. The dynamic between Faith and Death is very similar to Dr. Harleen Quinzel and ,infamous D.C villain, The Joker in the aspect that Death is slowly trying to drive Faith over the brink of insanity both mentally and sexually. Death is persistent in his need to have Faith sign her soul way to him, but Faith isn’t ready for huge commitment that comes along with being nothing but a toy for the Grim Reaper’s sadistic pleasure. But very soon Faith begins to confuse pain with pleasure, as she soon finds her only ally is her biggest
“For the first time, you will be able to put a face to both Death, and the Devil. For the first time, the villain might win” (“Summary,” par. 2). Katarina was fourteen when she penned the first copy of Death Is My BFF in 2011. She first put her story on Wattpad, an online storytelling community where users can publish their works to be critiqued by like-minded peers, under the screen name Katrocks247. Met with overwhelming positivity and winning a Watty, Wattpad’s most prestigious, she decided to publish her work using Amazon’s Self-Publishing, a program for novelist to sell copies of their books without having to go through publisher. Unfortunately, she only sold a handful of copies, so she took it down and got back to work on revising her book.A few years later in the year 2014, the new and improved DISMBFF was finally completed. Now with over 2,000 copies on pre-order and the …show more content…
She is instantly sought out by Angels and Demons alike. I find the symbolism in the book top-notch ,Faith is an allusion to mankind and our daily struggle in the internal battle of good versus evil. She is constantly tempted by a man who is quite literally hotter than hell. The dynamic between Faith and Death is very similar to Dr. Harleen Quinzel and ,infamous D.C villain, The Joker in the aspect that Death is slowly trying to drive Faith over the brink of insanity both mentally and sexually. Death is persistent in his need to have Faith sign her soul way to him, but Faith isn’t ready for huge commitment that comes along with being nothing but a toy for the Grim Reaper’s sadistic pleasure. But very soon Faith begins to confuse pain with pleasure, as she soon finds her only ally is her biggest