 Which came first? The black cake recipe or sibling rivalries? Keep watching to find out which came first and what book we're talking about today. So hey this is Kyla Denayo and thank you for watching Kyla's Reading Day. Today we're talking about the book Black Cake. This book was written by Charmaine Wilkerson. The genre of the book is fiction. The theme of the book is African-American fiction literature. So the biggest twist to this book is characters, characters, characters. What I tell you reading this book was like going to one of my aunts or uncles houses, sitting there and just letting them tell me stories about this is what happened to her and then that happened to them and then so and so did this and this. I was like all the drama not even the drama. All of the details that were involved in everyone's life, right? I mean Miss Charmaine, if you have not been writing these stories from your friends or family or whoever like where did you get all this level of detail? Is your imagination truly this vast? Because the book was exceptional, exceptional and I really loved learning about all of the different characters. The book is centered around two siblings, Benny and Byron. They find a black cake in the freezer and as they unwrap this black cake, which is a huge Caribbean recipe, people are known for it. Of course everyone has their own deviation, but black cakes are a thing. It's a thing. When you have a big event you have a black cake and so they find the cake and they start thinking about their own memories and emotions tied to this cake and then they start thinking about their mother and their father and where they come from. Right the brother Byron is an environmental scientist so of course I love that. I went to law school and wanted to be an environmental lawyer so you know but here I am on YouTube doing book reviews. But so I really love that aspect of the story and then you have the sister and the family really hasn't been able to figure her out but when you find out the crux the entire reason why she's been making these different decisions it's just like it was just a beautiful story of families and how you can be around each other and see each other and have no idea what's going on. And I went back to the Libby app to get a picture of the album cover and I saw that they're turning this into a show or mini series. So I am over the moon. I cannot wait to watch and see what the screenwriters do when they take this novel and how they try to transform it and present it on the screen. I'm really really excited. So I'm not one of those book readers who cannot read an adaptation that's made to watch it and I'll watch it and be like oh that was different from the book or I didn't think that character would look like that or hmm you know I love all of it. So I'm really excited to know that they are adapting it into a show or movie series. So why the characters of the book were so important to me was that it was so beautiful to see all of the different nuances of everyone's lives. It was like I opened up a journal and was reading about someone right and I know that's how writing supposed to be especially fiction literature but she did a really good job. She did a really good job and it was portrayed via audiobook because a lot of things can be missed via audiobook. So yeah I had a really good time reading this book and yes I would reread the book but I probably won't need to because I can just watch the show. However if the show has the characters that don't look anything like I would have expected them to look then I'll go on and reread the book. So yeah I have never had black cake and I will tell you this from reading the book I definitely want to get my hands on a slice. I would love to try it see if I enjoyed it. You know think about the characters in this book while I'm eating it think about all the tradition in the heritage of black cake. So jump in the comments let me know are you the type of person who can watch an adapted movie or series that's made from a book and let me know if you've had black cake. I'm really curious to know. In fact I'm gonna find a recipe and try to make it after I try it right. I gotta make sure recipes on the internet you'd never know. But thank you for watching this video and our discussion of black cake. I will see you next time on Kyla's reading day. Bye.