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A review by bibliophile_and_the_beast
Jonah by Nikki Kelly
4.0
It’s only fitting that I give this book five stars, as I have Gabriel four, and it was miles better. Granted, much like Lailah it feels like everything snowballs in the end, but boy are those last 100 pages good! I couldn’t put it down and needed to finish it. The ending is very, very bittersweet. First of all: one character who I adored throughout this whole series was Ruadhan, and when he died, I bawled like a baby. But getting to the ending (which... I’m not totally for the Darwin story line but I appreciate the continuity) of Lailah dying, I was happy she’d have someone to go to. And then Jonah went with her and I was like “okay, so a Romeo-and-Juliet-esc family reunion in not-Heaven.. I’m down.” I cried here too. I’m happy I stuck through the series, it was well worth it in the end, even if the ending is as grey as Lailah’s soul.
That being said: Kelly has a habit of repeating information. This was in Gabriel too, but it happened a lot here. Every time a character came back, she would give their whole spiel of who they were and how they related to Lailah and all that. I didn’t need that and it was kind of annoying rereading a bunch of stuff I already knew. Also didn’t totally jive with Lailah’s treatment of Jonah. She could have (and should have) treated him a lot better.
That being said: Kelly has a habit of repeating information. This was in Gabriel too, but it happened a lot here. Every time a character came back, she would give their whole spiel of who they were and how they related to Lailah and all that. I didn’t need that and it was kind of annoying rereading a bunch of stuff I already knew. Also didn’t totally jive with Lailah’s treatment of Jonah. She could have (and should have) treated him a lot better.