Redeeming 6

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of bullying, child abuse, substance use, addiction, graphic violence, sexual content, death, physical abuse, and emotional abuse.

Redeeming 6 is the fourth book in Chloe Walsh’s Boys of Tommen series, new adult novels that explore the lives of a group of teenagers in the fictional town of Ballylaggin, Ireland. As Walsh is a “passionate advocate for mental health awareness,” many of her novels, including those in the Boys of Tommen series, focus on the impact of trauma on young people and the importance of relationships in healing (“About.” Chloe Walsh).

The first two novels in the series, Binding 13 (2018) and Keeping 13 (2018), focus on Shannon Lynch, the sister of Joey, Keeping 6’s protagonist. Shannon and Joey have an abusive father and a neglectful mother. While Shannon takes most of the brunt of her father’s abuse, she also deals with severe bullying at the different schools she attends before transferring to Tommen College at the beginning of Binding 13.

On her first day of school, Shannon meets Johnny Kavanagh, number 13 on the school’s rugby team, and the two form a complicated relationship.