LitPick Review
Kyra lives in a sequestered community where the men have many wives and even more children. Her father alone has three wives and twenty one children. The Prophet of the community tells Kyra that she will marry her uncle (who is at least fifty years older than her). She is absolutely disgusted by this decree. As Kyra reads books that are forbidden in her community and begins to fall in love with a young boy that she is meeting in private, she realizes the wrong that her community does by forcing marriage. Kyra is going to be married to her uncle in one month unless she can find a way to prevent that.
Opinion:
Kyra is a wonderful narrator. The book is written so that the words on the page are the thoughts in her mind as she thinks them. This causes the plot to be interrupted many times with memories that Kyra holds from years ago. Because Kyra's emotions control the events in the novel, it allows the reader to become acquainted with her. The vocabulary was appropriate for the age of the narrator, and it made reading the book quicker. I really enjoyed the ending of the book because what happens to all of the characters is not set in stone. It forces the reader to decide what happened for themself. I recommend this book to readers who like teen fiction about family and love.
