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Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
3.0
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I enjoyed listening to this book immensely. The narrators did a fantastic job, and their accents worked well. The family saga itself was great. I enjoyed the timeline, the back and forth of it all, and seeing how the plot connected. The ending was great for me. I found it to be very suitable for the entire book. I did question 'why' on a few things that came up in the plot but I could only take the characters at their word. There's a lot of loss and grief but there are also so many bits of happiness in there that tie it all together. It could have been a bit shorter.