Shawntelle Madison

A Novel

Fallen Fruit

I love anything related to time travel, so the fact that this novel chronicles the unusual tales of generations of time traveling Black women in this single family was fascinating to me. I would say this is historical fiction spanning around 200 years. The historical aspect influenced the characters but wasn’t the main pull, which was fine by me. There was just enough to root you into the time and place of the plots. It was very much a character driven story.

There were multiple point of views because of how much of this family we are seeing the world through. I was surprised by the level of care I had for the members and how many individual personalities the author was able to portray. The book comes with a family tree, and that’s why this is only 4 stars for me. I had to continue to reference this image MULTIPLE times just to recall who is who and how they’re related. The ending was a bit of a let down and didn’t answer every question I had, but I was very satisfied with the overall story. The journey to the end made it worth it.

Nik ✨

I love anything related to time travel, so the fact that this novel chronicles the unusual tales of generations of time traveling Black women in this single family was fascinating to me. I would say this is historical fiction spanning around 200 years. The historical aspect influenced the characters but wasn’t the main pull, which was fine by me. There was just enough to root you into the time and place of the plots. It was very much a character driven story.

There were multiple point of views because of how much of this family we are seeing the world through. I was surprised by the level of care I had for the members and how many individual personalities the author was able to portray. The book comes with a family tree, and that’s why this is only 4 stars for me. I had to continue to reference this image MULTIPLE times just to recall who is who and how they’re related. The ending was a bit of a let down and didn’t answer every question I had, but I was very satisfied with the overall story. The journey to the end made it worth it.

Thank you NetGalley for this arc!

Fallen Fruit A Novel

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