Review: Waiting for the 2nd installment
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 12, 2014
Time to broaden your horizons, and check out Yefon: The Red Necklace.  It is wonderful learning about other cultures.  Yefon: The Red Necklace is a glimpse into the life of a young African girl.  I have to admit it took me a while to get into this book.  It has so much back story, and language that I don't understand and had to look up at the end of the book.  I felt like the real "meat" of the book didn't start until the 2nd half or close to the end.  While I understand that we need the background, I wish there was more of the story and less of the background.I had a hard time with the point of view.  The first half of the book felt like it was a long drawn out story that someone would tell about their life with "I did this" and "this happened to me", etc.  You know like when a friend just goes on and on before getting to the main part of the story.  However, if you can get through that, you will get hooked on this book.  The disappointing part is that when I finally became so engrossed in the story that I couldn't put it down, it ended.  Now I have to wait for the next installment of this series.This is a wonderful story for people to learn and come to understand people from a culture that is so different from ours.  Maybe if we read more about people from different cultures we might have more empathy for people that seem so foreign.  I think that people of all ages can learn a lot from this book.  However, this might be better for older children and adults.  Younger children might have a hard time reading the book because of the language and having to look up what some of the words mean.  I give this one 3 1/2 stars because I had a hard time getting into this book.  However, I have high hopes for the rest of the series since the background has been laid down.I received this book to review through Beck Valley Books Book Tours, all the opinions above are 100% my own.