Review of Kalayla
Posted: 11 Sep 2021, 11:40
[Following is a volunteer review of "Kalayla" by Jeannie Nicholas.]
Even the most rugged of edges can be smoothed by the purest of hearts. In this book we get to see, Lena, an old hard-boiled lady living in an apartment that was way below her standards, develop an affection so great and so unexpected for a little girl living right across the hall from her. Well, I got to understand that everything does happen for a reason. Kalayla is not one to get out of her way meddling in anyone's business. She's actually one who'd rather keep to herself reading a book or maybe staring through a window on the floor of her apartment. Kalayla is intriguing because she portrays a difference in comparison to most kids her age. Some might say she's weird but that might just be a stereotype. Well, at first, meeting Kalayla might have proved more of a disadvantage than an advantage on Lena’s side but as time went on Kalayla became less of a smart-assed mouth and more what someone would call a daughter in Lena’s life. Well, or maybe a granddaughter. This book explores the past as a harsh place to visit but if you have the right people to get you through it the future can always be a beautiful place to walk into.
Kalayla was well written in a way that it had different speaking voices. We got to experience the book from different points of view all together. It also had some great lessons to teach for example it taught us that life is not a fairytale. Things don’t always work out how we’d want them to but as long as we’re surrounded by a few good people, everything will work out in the end.
Kalayla had a great flow to it but unfortunately Jeannie Nicholas failed to get rid of the drag completely for example Lena would continuously bring about the dilemma her sons had fallen into. Yes, we knew that her twins had died! She had practically mentioned it in the first chapter but she went on to mention it over and over again throughout the whole book.
All in all, Kalayla by Jeannie Nicholas was a great read. I loved reading this book so much that I'd have loved to rate it a 4 out of 4 but due to the tiny bits of drag, I have to rate this book a 3 out of 4.
I would recommend this book for readers above 15 years of age because it has a little bit of inappropriate language and vivid sexual scenes.
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Kalayla
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Even the most rugged of edges can be smoothed by the purest of hearts. In this book we get to see, Lena, an old hard-boiled lady living in an apartment that was way below her standards, develop an affection so great and so unexpected for a little girl living right across the hall from her. Well, I got to understand that everything does happen for a reason. Kalayla is not one to get out of her way meddling in anyone's business. She's actually one who'd rather keep to herself reading a book or maybe staring through a window on the floor of her apartment. Kalayla is intriguing because she portrays a difference in comparison to most kids her age. Some might say she's weird but that might just be a stereotype. Well, at first, meeting Kalayla might have proved more of a disadvantage than an advantage on Lena’s side but as time went on Kalayla became less of a smart-assed mouth and more what someone would call a daughter in Lena’s life. Well, or maybe a granddaughter. This book explores the past as a harsh place to visit but if you have the right people to get you through it the future can always be a beautiful place to walk into.
Kalayla was well written in a way that it had different speaking voices. We got to experience the book from different points of view all together. It also had some great lessons to teach for example it taught us that life is not a fairytale. Things don’t always work out how we’d want them to but as long as we’re surrounded by a few good people, everything will work out in the end.
Kalayla had a great flow to it but unfortunately Jeannie Nicholas failed to get rid of the drag completely for example Lena would continuously bring about the dilemma her sons had fallen into. Yes, we knew that her twins had died! She had practically mentioned it in the first chapter but she went on to mention it over and over again throughout the whole book.
All in all, Kalayla by Jeannie Nicholas was a great read. I loved reading this book so much that I'd have loved to rate it a 4 out of 4 but due to the tiny bits of drag, I have to rate this book a 3 out of 4.
I would recommend this book for readers above 15 years of age because it has a little bit of inappropriate language and vivid sexual scenes.
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Kalayla
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon