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Long After We Are Gone by Terah Shelton Harris

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cikureads's review

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emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

torileighloveslit's review

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mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

After reading Harris’ 1st book, One Summer in Savannah, I’ve been counting down to the release of this book. I thoroughly enjoyed diving into the lives of the Solomon children. I love a multi-POV storyline and Harris developed each character so well.

There were a couple of far reaching elements in the plot line (that I won’t spoil) that kept this from being a 5 star read. However, Harris has a lifelong fan in me!

books4bee's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

tdlang's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

lych's review against another edition

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emotional sad fast-paced

3.75

Heart hurts

awaken5110's review

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Loveable characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

I liked the author's first book, so I eagerly picked up this one. The biggest difference is that in One Summer in Savannah, the characters were lovable and adorable, if quirky.

Here, I felt like the whole point was that they were unlovable.

Also, I must disagree with the author morally, because in both of the books, I felt like there was a wrap up on the wrong actions.

In Long After We Are Gone,

the message seemed to be that family defines who you are, that there's no escaping your family even though you might think you want to (that's just an illusion), and that violence is okay if justified. I was okay with the demolition of the house because it was forecasted throughout the book that they owned the house. But everything else, I strongly disagreed with.