I absolutely adored this book and it has become one of my favorite books of 2021. I love the Brennan’s so much and the author did such an amazing job writing these fleshed out characters that I felt as if I really knew the whole family.
We start We Are the Brennan’s with Sunday waking up in a LA hospital after she crashed her car drunk driving. She had her emergency contact as her brother Dennis and even though they haven’t seen each other in five years, he flies across the US to be with her. Dennis pleads with her to come back home to her family and because of how serious her accident was she agrees. Sunday fled her NY family home five years ago and never looked back, but after going back home to recover she realizes just how much she missed her family and how much they need her. No one knows why she left all those years ago and it might just be time for her to tell her secrets, but her family has just as many secrets they’re bottling up inside as well.
I loved how this book was written, we get so many different perspectives and the author seamlessly moves from character to character each chapter. I like how we basically got all of the family’s perspective; Sunday, Denny, Jackie, Mickey, Kale, and Vivienne. I loved how close knit this entire family is and seeing how they all will protect each other no matter what. While Sunday is going through her own trauma from the past, her brother Denny and his best friend Kale are going through some financial hardships with the pub they run together. Everyone in this Irish Catholic family has secrets and made some mistakes, but with the whole family back together will they overcome the storm that is brewing or will the family be torn apart for good?
I devoured this book in one sitting and I already miss the characters so much. It isn’t often that I truly resonate with so many characters in a book and miss them when the story is done. I am stunned that this is a debut novel by Tracey Lange, because it was riveting from the very first page to the last.
We start We Are the Brennan’s with Sunday waking up in a LA hospital after she crashed her car drunk driving. She had her emergency contact as her brother Dennis and even though they haven’t seen each other in five years, he flies across the US to be with her. Dennis pleads with her to come back home to her family and because of how serious her accident was she agrees. Sunday fled her NY family home five years ago and never looked back, but after going back home to recover she realizes just how much she missed her family and how much they need her. No one knows why she left all those years ago and it might just be time for her to tell her secrets, but her family has just as many secrets they’re bottling up inside as well.
I loved how this book was written, we get so many different perspectives and the author seamlessly moves from character to character each chapter. I like how we basically got all of the family’s perspective; Sunday, Denny, Jackie, Mickey, Kale, and Vivienne. I loved how close knit this entire family is and seeing how they all will protect each other no matter what. While Sunday is going through her own trauma from the past, her brother Denny and his best friend Kale are going through some financial hardships with the pub they run together. Everyone in this Irish Catholic family has secrets and made some mistakes, but with the whole family back together will they overcome the storm that is brewing or will the family be torn apart for good?
I devoured this book in one sitting and I already miss the characters so much. It isn’t often that I truly resonate with so many characters in a book and miss them when the story is done. I am stunned that this is a debut novel by Tracey Lange, because it was riveting from the very first page to the last.