Rating: 
Summary: Fairly Intriguing
Review: I have been a Kayla Perrin fan since her days with Arabesque and loved it when she crossed over to mainstream fiction. This book is, for the most part, an engrossing read. The only flaw that kept it from being a 5-star read was the relationship between Harvey and Olivia. In my opinion the two never really had a relationship, but then he returns and they're still madly in love with each other. When did they really fall in love???? Other than that plot faux pas, the book was a quick and intriguing read. The suspense was well-paced and the climax completely unexpected. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants an interesting read.
Rating:
Summary: Fairly Intriguing
Review: I have been a Kayla Perrin fan since her days with Arabesque and loved it when she crossed over to mainstream fiction. This book is, for the most part, an engrossing read. The only flaw that kept it from being a 5-star read was the relationship between Harvey and Olivia. In my opinion the two never really had a relationship, but then he returns and they're still madly in love with each other. When did they really fall in love???? Other than that plot faux pas, the book was a quick and intriguing read. The suspense was well-paced and the climax completely unexpected. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants an interesting read.
Rating: 
Summary: Excellent Book
Review: I loved this story!!! In it, you meet two generations of black women. You laugh and cry with both. The love story in the midst of the main story is beautiful and powerful. I could not put this book down.
Rating:
Summary: terse psychological suspense thriller
Review: In 1953 Lafayette, Louisiana, Sylvia tries to flee from what she did. The incident haunts her for the rest of her life as she suffers nightmares vividly displaying this calamity. Still life goes on. Over the next two decades Sylvia insures her own daughter follows a path to success by keeping a rein on Olivia. However, in 1975 New Orleans someone killed Liza ?bad girl? Monroe, which shook up Sylvia more than it should have. She reacts by tightening her control of her daughter until Olivia has had enough and revolts. Two decades later, Olivia?s daughter Rachelle attends college. However, unbeknownst to the coed, her mother, or her grandmother someone waits. That individual has killed before and will murder anyone who might reveal secrets. Age is no factor to this predator willing to send Sylvia, Olivia, but especially Rachelle to the morgue. This exciting story line freshens up what could have been the trite watcher-killer theme by furbishing characters that seem so genuine so that when something happens, fans empathize with the women as the episode feels real too. The three females make the tale as the audience compares each with one another while also what lurks in the shadows. Kayla Perrin paints a terse psychological suspense thriller that hooks the audience from the moment Sylvia tries to run away from herself until the final confrontation. Harriet Klausner
Rating:
Summary: terse psychological suspense thriller
Review: In 1953 Lafayette, Louisiana, Sylvia tries to flee from what she did. The incident haunts her for the rest of her life as she suffers nightmares vividly displaying this calamity. Still life goes on. Over the next two decades Sylvia insures her own daughter follows a path to success by keeping a rein on Olivia. However, in 1975 New Orleans someone killed Liza "bad girl" Monroe, which shook up Sylvia more than it should have. She reacts by tightening her control of her daughter until Olivia has had enough and revolts. Two decades later, Olivia's daughter Rachelle attends college. However, unbeknownst to the coed, her mother, or her grandmother someone waits. That individual has killed before and will murder anyone who might reveal secrets. Age is no factor to this predator willing to send Sylvia, Olivia, but especially Rachelle to the morgue. This exciting story line freshens up what could have been the trite watcher-killer theme by furbishing characters that seem so genuine so that when something happens, fans empathize with the women as the episode feels real too. The three females make the tale as the audience compares each with one another while also what lurks in the shadows. Kayla Perrin paints a terse psychological suspense thriller that hooks the audience from the moment Sylvia tries to run away from herself until the final confrontation. Harriet Klausner
Rating: 
Summary: Entertaining...
Review: Kayla Perrin's latest release, The Delta Sisters, is a multi-generational saga that chronicles the impact of a mother's past sins on her daughter's. The story opens with a murder of a local promiscuous teenaged girl but quickly shifts focus to widow Sylvia Grayson, a prim and proper New Orleans socialite who wants only the best for her daughter, Olivia. Olivia must mingle and date within a select group of privileged children, so when Olivia falls in love with "the help" Sylvia outwardly disapproves, separates the two lovers (in a predictable mean-spirited way) and cripples an already fragile mother/daughter relationship. Fast forward nearly thirty years later and we discover a widowed, alcoholic Olivia in an equally dysfunctional relationship with her daughter, Rachelle, from a passionless marriage to a man thirty-years her senior. Rachelle suffers an identity crisis -- wanting to desperately escape the oppressive household and break family tradition by neither attending the local Dillard University nor pledging the Delta sorority that her great-grandmother helped found and where her grandmother and mother are idolized. The book opened strong with a murder and some hint of Sylvia's secret past, but fizzled when it went off into unrelated tangents and drawn out passages of mother/daughter banter, lost love themes, and occasional hints that a murderer is still afoot. Nearly 300 pages later, the police reopens the murder case, lost loves are reunited, and Olivia's secrets are revealed -- but at that point, I was ready for the book to end. I struggled through the shifting focus, slow pacing, and elongated storyline. In the end, I was disappointed and closed the book thinking "was that it?!?!" While reading, it was also a challenge to understand how and when the title of the book would become relevant to the plot. I suppose the analogy of the lead characters being sorority sisters and a sorority being like a family (even the dysfunctional ones) is a takeaway, but I still feel somewhat misled by the title because sorority politics and sisterhood principles were addressed so late in the story and played such a small role in the overall plot. Overall, this book was entertaining for a light summer read -- the characters had good intentions and were fairly likable. There was romance, drama, and a bit of intrigue; so the elements are there for an enjoyable reading experience. Phyllis
APOOO BookClub
Nubian Circle Book Club
Rating:
Summary: Entertaining...
Review: Kayla Perrin's latest release, The Delta Sisters, is a multi-generational saga that chronicles the impact of a mother's past sins on her daughter's. The story opens with a murder of a local promiscuous teenaged girl but quickly shifts focus to widow Sylvia Grayson, a prim and proper New Orleans socialite who wants only the best for her daughter, Olivia. Olivia must mingle and date within a select group of privileged children, so when Olivia falls in love with "the help" Sylvia outwardly disapproves, separates the two lovers (in a predictable mean-spirited way) and cripples an already fragile mother/daughter relationship. Fast forward nearly thirty years later and we discover a widowed, alcoholic Olivia in an equally dysfunctional relationship with her daughter, Rachelle, from a passionless marriage to a man thirty-years her senior. Rachelle suffers an identity crisis -- wanting to desperately escape the oppressive household and break family tradition by neither attending the local Dillard University nor pledging the Delta sorority that her great-grandmother helped found and where her grandmother and mother are idolized. The book opened strong with a murder and some hint of Sylvia's secret past, but fizzled when it went off into unrelated tangents and drawn out passages of mother/daughter banter, lost love themes, and occasional hints that a murderer is still afoot. Nearly 300 pages later, the police reopens the murder case, lost loves are reunited, and Olivia's secrets are revealed -- but at that point, I was ready for the book to end. I struggled through the shifting focus, slow pacing, and elongated storyline. In the end, I was disappointed and closed the book thinking "was that it?!?!" While reading, it was also a challenge to understand how and when the title of the book would become relevant to the plot. I suppose the analogy of the lead characters being sorority sisters and a sorority being like a family (even the dysfunctional ones) is a takeaway, but I still feel somewhat misled by the title because sorority politics and sisterhood principles were addressed so late in the story and played such a small role in the overall plot. Overall, this book was entertaining for a light summer read -- the characters had good intentions and were fairly likable. There was romance, drama, and a bit of intrigue; so the elements are there for an enjoyable reading experience. Phyllis
APOOO BookClub
Nubian Circle Book Club
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Summary: Sisterhood Secrets and Lies
Review: The Grayson family is one of the most prominent and upstanding African American families in New Orleans. Family matriarch, Sylvia Grayson will do whatever it takes to ensure her family keeps up appearances. As a result, she is overprotective of her only daughter Olivia and typically wants to control her life. Sylvia wants Olivia to attend Dillard University, become a member of Delta Gamma Psi Sorority, and marry the right man; just as she did. But Sylvia's life is littered with lies, deceit and shady manipulations and her greatest fear is that one day all of her sordid actions will come to light and her pretentious world will be shattered. Olivia Grayson has always felt smothered under her mother's watchful eye. She is coming into womanhood, and as most teenagers do, she wants more freedom to choose whom she dates and the choice to have fun as she pleases. It seems her only outlet is writing and her best friend Belinda. Olivia is trying desperately to adjust to her mundane life when in the summer of 1975 her life is forever changed. Someone murders the town's most promiscuous female, her mother begins acting strangely and Olivia meets the man of her dreams. Then something tragic happens and Olivia becomes a mere shell of the vibrant young woman she used to be. Years later a widowed Olivia does not know how to love her daughter Rachelle. Rachelle has been the perfect daughter, making good grades and not causing any trouble. While Rachelle has always felt the love of her grandmother Sylvia, she still yearns for her mother's approval. Rachelle tires of her mother's indifference and decides to live her life for herself. However, her act of rebellion could place her in danger as there is still a murderer on the loose. In Kayla Perrin's latest novel THE DELTA SISTERS, she weaves an engrossing tale of murder, lies, and deceit. Readers learn that people aren't always who they seem to be and that the sins of the mother, can often become the sins of the daughter. Reviewed by Simone A. Hawks
of The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book was extremely exciting and interesting. It was hard for me to put it down. I felt like I was on a roller coaster with this book, there were twists and turns in almost every chapter of the book.
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Summary: A great suspensful novel
Review: This book was grrrreat. This was the first book that I read from this author.The the delta soroity is not the main base of this book. It is about a murder and who killed who. I thought the book was wonderful and I cant wait to read other books that she has written.
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