Review of Nikki Kelly's The Styclar Saga: Lailah
Release Date: October 7th, 2014
Synopsis as found on GoodReads.com:
The girl knows she’s different. She doesn’t age. She has no family. She has visions of a past life, but no clear clues as to what she is, or where she comes from. But there is a face in her dreams – a light that breaks through the darkness. She knows his name is Gabriel.
On her way home from work, the girl encounters an injured stranger whose name is Jonah. Soon, she will understand that Jonah belongs to a generation of Vampires that serve even darker forces. Jonah and the few like him, are fighting with help from an unlikely ally – a rogue Angel, named Gabriel.
In the crossfire between good and evil, love and hate, and life and death, the girl learns her name: Lailah. But when the lines between black and white begin to blur, where in the spectrum will she find her place? And with whom?
Gabriel and Jonah both want to protect her. But Lailah will have to fight her own battle to find out who she truly is.
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Wow! That is my first thought when reflecting on Lailah. Just Wow! I don't really know where to begin. I guess we can start with the prologue... So the book starts off with an Angel named Angeal being sent to kill demons... when she is attacked and bitten by this demon (that you realize is really a Vampire, when his fangs pop out and he bites her). Another Angel comes into the picture and uses his Divine Light to heal her. Sadly, his Light can not save her baby, who is infected now with the Vampire's venom. So from this point, I was thinking "WTF?" Because really, why would she be demon hunting pregnant... and why do we not know she's pregnant until the baby is infected. Angeal gives birth to the baby, but leaves her on a stranger's doorstep.
Chapter 1 takes us to the rest of the story... in which a girl named Francesca (Cessie for short) is working in a bar. We assume that this is the child of Angeal, but can not be for sure... the story is already confusing by this point and we are only 20 pages into it. Cessie gets off work and hears a hurt animal crying in the woods... so she decides to check it out. Really? It happens to be a Vampire. At this point, we find out she had a previous run in with a Vampire that didn't turn out well... so what does she do? She helps save a wounded and dying Vampire by taking him back to her place. Believable?
The book goes on to be even more confusing in parts, but has a spark of great writing here and there. By the last quarter of the book, I am determined to finish... and it is finally getting good. I am just sad it took so long for me to get interested in it. By the end, we have FINALLY found out what has happened in the back story, but are stuck with a confusing love triangle... that is really a confusing love pentagon... I don't know what just happened. Did I like it? Did I not? I am so confused... What's my name again?
This is how I feel after reading Lailah!
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