Review: Really Captured the college experience
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 4, 2014
*What Sandra Thought*Lakeshia Poole's “Don't Let Me Fall”, really captured the college experience from the African American point of view. The book had two main characters Ciara and Nick. The story followed their journey through freshman year. Ciara is a sweet but naive young girl who struggled to make the best of a bad relationship with her boyfriend. Nick is a confused and selfish young man trying to straddle the fence that separates his hometown life from his college life.I really liked Lakeshia Poole's concept of the book. But the execution of it left something to be desired. The book was written from two POVs. When writing a book with alternating POVs it's important to label them. At times, it felt like I was reading two different stories. To me,the sequence of events in the POVs were out of sync, at times. It was confusing and made me lose interest in the story. Lakeshia Poole is a fairly new author and wrote this while she was an undergrad. I'm curious to see what else she comes up with. I'd be open to reading another one of her books.