Zyla & Kai
(Sprache: Englisch)
A fresh new YA romance novel by Kristina Forest, Zyla & Kai is an epic star-crossed love story about first love and not just the will they, won t they but why can t they?
While on a school trip to the Poconos Mountains (in the middle of a...
While on a school trip to the Poconos Mountains (in the middle of a...
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A fresh new YA romance novel by Kristina Forest, Zyla & Kai is an epic star-crossed love story about first love and not just the will they, won t they but why can t they?While on a school trip to the Poconos Mountains (in the middle of a snowstorm) high school seniors, Zyla Matthews and Kai Johnson, run away together, leaving their friends and family confused. As far as everyone knows, Zyla and Kai have been broken up for months.
And real talk? No one believed Zyla and Kai would last that long anyway. Everyone had their own reasons why these two would never make it.
Zyla and Kai met while working together at an amusement park the previous summer.
Zyla was a cynic about love. She'd witnessed the dissolution of her parents' marriage early in life, and it left an indelible impression. Her only focus was graduating and going to fashion school abroad. Until she met Kai.
Kai was a serial monogamist since middle school, and a hopeless romantic. He had put a temporary pause on his dating life during Senior Year to focus on school and getting into his dream HBCU. Until he met Zyla.
Alternating between the past and present, we see the love story unfold from Zyla and Kai s perspectives: how they first became the unlikeliest of friends over the summer, how they fell in love during the school year, and why they ultimately broke up.
Or did they? As we hear the perspectives of their family and friends, we see how perceptions of their relationship started to shape how Zyla and Kai saw each other, and how they ultimately filtered out the noise to focus on their feelings. The story unfolds as a mystery that will keep readers guessing until the last chapter.
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Chapter ThreeIf you would have told Zyla this morning that not only would she have a full-blown conversation with Kai Johnson, but that he d flirt with her and ask her out within a sixty-minute time span, she would have told you to lay off the bath salts.
But he did flirt with her, at least that was what it seemed like with the way he d stared so deeply into her eyes, like he d been trying to solve the puzzle that was her mind. And he d definitely been gearing up to ask her out before she d cut him off.
She watched as his Jeep pulled out of the parking lot, and she held her backpack to her chest, mystified. Like . . . it was Kai Johnson. He d dated at least a quarter of the girls in her year at St. Catherine s, and on Cedar High s game days, girls showed up with his number painted on their cheeks even though he didn t even go to their school! Okay, so a quarter of the girls was a bit of an exaggeration. But nevertheless, it was absolutely bonkers, and Zyla had thought her classmates were delusional. But she had to be honest, she understood it now. Kai Johnson was disarming. It wasn t just that he was handsome with his smooth brown skin and bright white teeth (what, was he like a model or something in a former life?) but from the way Kai strutted around Sailor Joe s all summer, and from the stories she d heard from her classmates and coworkers, Zyla had expected him to be a bit of a jerk or stuck up. The kind of boy who commanded attention and was annoyed when he didn t receive it. But he seemed . . . normal? Whatever that meant. He was chill. More than that, he was kind of funny. And flirtatious, but that wasn t surprising.
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She d completely embarrassed herself, blabbering on about how Aunt Ida paid for her to go to St. Catherine s. She didn t want Kai thinking she was a spoiled and rich private-school girl like so many of her classmates. She d felt a buzz in her gut when he d looked at her so closely and asked for her last name. There d been some kind of gravitational pull that had made her move closer to him, but thankfully Jamal had appeared and broken the spell. Zyla meant what she said. Nothing was going to happen between her and Kai. It wasn t because he d recently been dumped by Camille Vaughn the most popular, most beautiful, and meanest girl at Sailor Joe s and it was kind of sketchy that he was moving on so quickly. It wasn t that he and Camille had a big blow-up scene that eventually landed him in Games (yeah, she d heard about that incident even though she d pretended otherwise). And it wasn t that Kai had dated way too many of her mutuals or was a known player. Zyla just didn t date, period.
Now she and Kai would be working together, and they d agreed to be friends. Go figure. At least it would make the rest of her summer more interesting. She couldn t wait to call her best friend, Beatrice, and tell her about this later. She would have preferred to tell her in person, but Beatrice was spending the summer in Paris with her dad.
The whole Kai Johnson thing had Zyla in a daze for a good fifteen minutes before a school bus pulled up directly in front of her and she was almost trampled by a summer camp stampede. She darted aside, almost tripping over a kid in the process, and pulled out her phone. No response from her mom, who should have been here to pick her up by now. Typical.
Antonio wasn t surprised to see Zyla when she walked into his office unannounced. He was sitting at his desk, working on a Sudoku puzzle, an unlit cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth. He glanced up at Zyla and raised an eyebrow.
She s late, Zyla explained, pulling
She d completely embarrassed herself, blabbering on about how Aunt Ida paid for her to go to St. Catherine s. She didn t want Kai thinking she was a spoiled and rich private-school girl like so many of her classmates. She d felt a buzz in her gut when he d looked at her so closely and asked for her last name. There d been some kind of gravitational pull that had made her move closer to him, but thankfully Jamal had appeared and broken the spell. Zyla meant what she said. Nothing was going to happen between her and Kai. It wasn t because he d recently been dumped by Camille Vaughn the most popular, most beautiful, and meanest girl at Sailor Joe s and it was kind of sketchy that he was moving on so quickly. It wasn t that he and Camille had a big blow-up scene that eventually landed him in Games (yeah, she d heard about that incident even though she d pretended otherwise). And it wasn t that Kai had dated way too many of her mutuals or was a known player. Zyla just didn t date, period.
Now she and Kai would be working together, and they d agreed to be friends. Go figure. At least it would make the rest of her summer more interesting. She couldn t wait to call her best friend, Beatrice, and tell her about this later. She would have preferred to tell her in person, but Beatrice was spending the summer in Paris with her dad.
The whole Kai Johnson thing had Zyla in a daze for a good fifteen minutes before a school bus pulled up directly in front of her and she was almost trampled by a summer camp stampede. She darted aside, almost tripping over a kid in the process, and pulled out her phone. No response from her mom, who should have been here to pick her up by now. Typical.
Antonio wasn t surprised to see Zyla when she walked into his office unannounced. He was sitting at his desk, working on a Sudoku puzzle, an unlit cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth. He glanced up at Zyla and raised an eyebrow.
She s late, Zyla explained, pulling
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Autoren-Porträt von Kristina Forest
Kristina Forest is the author of I Wanna Be Where You Are and Now That I've Found You. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing with a concentration in Writing for Children at The New School. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with two huge bookshelves.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Kristina Forest
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 12 Jahre
- 2022, Internationale Ausgabe, 480 Seiten, Maße: 16 x 21,4 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0593532252
- ISBN-13: 9780593532256
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.05.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"A first love story with all the feels." Kirkus ReviewsRomantic, heart-stirring and a little mysterious, Zyla & Kai will keep readers guessing until the last chapter. BookRiot
A sweet, funny, and heartfelt story about falling in and out of love, and what happens next " STARRED REVIEW, School Library Journal
"Populated by a compassionate, fully fleshed-out cast, variously queer characters, and depictions of loving blended Black families, this joyous novel excels in its heartfelt portrayals of open communication, mental health prioritization, devastating heartbreak, and tender first love."
STARRED REVIEW, Publisher's Weekly
"...explorations of the side characters and their zoomed-out perspectives, along with chapters focused on Kai s and Zyla s experiences, demonstrate the unexpected ways human lives are interconnected and how relationships are a culmination of experiences, perceptions, and assumptions. Reminiscent of Nicola Yoon s works, it s a smart, thoughtful take on a romance, ultimately imparting the value of self-reflection, positive communication, healthy coping skills, and forgiveness." STARRED REVIEW, The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
"Forest delivers an emotionally mature and reflective contemporary romantic novel with her latest. Hopeless romantics who enjoy angst and self-reflection will relish this story of miscommunication. Fans of Elise Bryant won t want to miss this tale of first love gone awry." Booklist
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