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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Long After We Are Gone by Terrah Shelton Harris 💔 Four siblings come home after their dad dies—and old wounds, family secrets, and grief make the reunion anything but simple.
After losing my own dad in December 2024, this hit deep. The need to be heard, the weight of family history, the push and pull of healing—it all felt real. The ending threw me a bit, but I felt this one.
After losing my own dad in December 2024, this hit deep. The need to be heard, the weight of family history, the push and pull of healing—it all felt real. The ending threw me a bit, but I felt this one.
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I like a book where I learn, and I learned a lot about heir property. Do I love the way the Solomon’s handled all adversity? No…but did their generational trauma have a lot to do with it? Yes. Were they looking to break that trauma? Yes. Junior, Mance, CeCe, Tokey and Ellis all take a roundabout route to growth, but they all get there.
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
This was a really sweet, ultimately heart warming novel about a family falling apart, brought back together through the death of their father and the fighting they have to do to deal with the aftermath. Yes, the characters are all exaggerated, and their individual struggles do feel a bit like a diverse issues checklist, but it’s fiction, and you’re rooting for them by the end. Are they realistic? Not really. But you still want to see them become the good people their father knew they could be by the end.
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
medium-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
As with her first novel, One Summer in Savannah, this is a great book that I can’t stop thinking about. All of the main characters in this book have pretty major flaws, but I loved how nuanced they were and felt like all of them were real people. I knew where they were coming from and understood where they were going after the novel ends. I learned a lot from this book and thought the payoff at the end was well done. I think I prefer One Summer in Savannah to this one as the story line was a little less scattered than this one, but I’ll definitely be watching for Terah Shelton Harris’s next books!
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes