I've read Brit Bennett's books in reverse order, and you can tell her growth as an author from The Mothers to The Vanishing Half. Her writing style has remained the same. The Mothers is very character driven, and kind of plotless. The characters are airy (that's the best way I can express it). The plot points for The Mothers are very deep, but those are the focus of the story. I hated all the characters. They did not warm themselves to me. The omniessence of the narrators was fascinating. I like that Bennett chose to come at it from a Church POV. It was fascinating, and its showed the hypocrisy of church life. I couldn't stop reading it but I'll be quite honest the book overall was very forgetable to me. It was good writing but forgetable