The Color of Family
A Novel

WOW! LOVE….Where is the rest of it? I absolutely loved this book, and I get it, it was very short, it had entirely too many characters, the plot was all over the place, and you finished with a lot of unanswered questions but for some reason- the reason being the writing- I could not get enough of i......more

3🌟 A friend recommended this book in a list of books to read for Black History Month so I added it to my TBR. As a black woman, I felt compelled to finish the book but for some reason I felt a little uneasy reading it. Not only because of the story the author is trying to tell but because the book is......more

I recieved this book as an arc from netgalley and I was so excited to start it. But sadly this book just wasn‘t for me. It felt more like a rough draft of a book than the finished book. The topic is so interesting and it had so much potential but sadly it wasn‘t executed as well as I‘d like it to be......more

So much exposition that it read like the author's story outline rather than a finished product. The story attempts to follow the members of a large family but major events eg character death are given very little fleshing-out and are treated almost as an afterthought, while whole chapters are given......more

I'm of two minds about this book. On the one hand it had many good points--started out strong with good character development, well written dialogue, and some interesting plot lines. On the other hand, part way through the first half the author lost his way with the story. Too many important plot po......more