The Black Girls Must Series by Jayne Allen | Series Review

Full transparency, I read this series completely backwards and I have zero regrets.

I stumbled into Book 3, Black Girls Must Have It All, with no idea it was part of a series. By the time I had my lightbulb moment, I was already hooked and had to go back to the beginning. Starting the new year with Black Girls Must Die Exhausted and working my way through felt like the most satisfying course correction I’ve made as a reader.

This is also worth mentioning, getting back into reading happened because of a personal goal.

One of my birthday wishes in September was to finally finish my manuscript I’d been sitting on for over 20 years. In the process of completing Bittersweet, I downloaded Cloud Library and it completely reignited my love for books. This series was one of the standouts from that season.

Tabby is the kind of character you don’t forget. The raw, honest storytelling around fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, and co-parenting hits differently when it’s written with this level of authenticity. Jayne Allen doesn’t flinch, and that’s what makes it so relatable.

The characters are so well developed that I felt like I was literally in the room watching everything unfold, and watching them grow across all three books made the journey that much more rewarding.

The audio versions are excellent and kept me thoroughly entertained. My daughter is a new mother, so the parallels throughout the series were something else entirely.

Phenomenal writing by Jayne Allen. Highly recommend, in whatever order you find it, but strongly suggest you start with Book One lol.