A Review of Popular: Boys, Booze and Jesus


            Popular: Boys, Booze and Jesus by Tindell Baldwin is packed with sincerity as the author bares herself in the book. As you read along, you do not only get to know her story but you get to reflect on your own life. We all have been in (or could still be in) a point in our lives when we feel so desperate to be accepted, to become one of the popular ones. Tindell Baldwin shares how she struggled with this as a teenager. She desperately wanted to be accepted, she went beyond limits. She succeeded. She became popular… but for all the wrong reasons. She did all she could to become popular but when she became one, she found out that it was not life is all about.
Her story is an eye-opener for young girls, moreover it is a warning. As the author opens her life, you can feel her deep desire for her life to serve as a caution for young girls. The way she opens her life in the book allows the readers to not only see the problem on the surface. The author uncovered herself by going deeper to the root cause of her desire to become popular. This book allows us to get a firsthand account of a young girl who is struggling. It lets us see the situation from the eyes of the one who went through it. 





Her boldness to share the roughest parts of her life makes her story not only appealing but piercing to the soul. Her story touches the heart of the reader.

Furthermore, it is a story of redemption. It is a story that witnesses the greatest love that any human being can ever experience.  

It is story of how our loving and forgiving God

 can redeem us from the quicksand of sins 

that we have put ourselves into.

            This book is a must-read for many people. It will allow us to understand the reality that young girls go through. If you are young girl struggling, go read this book and be encouraged by how Tindell Baldwin became a conqueror. If you are a young girl attempting to go beyond the limits, go read this book and be warned. If you are a parent of a struggling child, go read this book and find out how Tindell’s family helped her. If you are a youth leader in a church, go read this book and share it to the youth. If you are a Pastor or a church elder, go read this book, it will help you understand what the struggling girl in your church could be going through.
            The book is not just simply an account of the mistakes Tindell has done in the past. It tells of how God can redeem us even from the darkest pits of life. 

Popular shares a story that is real, 
sincere, eye-opening and inspiring.

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