Liz Moore’s writing is thoughtful and the story in Long Bright River is character-driven. Situations aren’t resolved too easily or cleanly.

Danny and Maeve are ejected from their fabled childhood home, and they spend the rest of the book hashing out their bitterness and feelings.

I loved the early twentieth century Arizona Territory setting and details, as well as Mary Pearl’s spirit, grit, and determination.

I found Sally Field's discussion of her "craft" and how she grew and changed as an actor to be the most compelling aspect of the book.

Fowler touches on some big, intriguing issues about guilt and innocence and race.

There's a beautiful exploration in this book of dying, death, appreciating the beauty of the impermanence of our lives and living life fully

The strongest part of the story was toward the end, with a search and some resolution, strong female characters, and a family of sorts.

The final book in Maureen Johnson's young adult Truly Devious trilogy wraps up the story, but I missed the earlier books' banter.

Wrobel supplies Münchausen syndrome by proxy, lies, betrayals, and double-crossing, within a claustrophobic mother-daughter relationship.

Child's Jack Reacher eschews societal standards of beauty and the judgment that often surrounds addiction. Jack Reacher doesn’t follow...

Tallulah shifts from resenting her future and her obligations to taking charge of her life and how she intends to live it.

Cummins offers a fictional immigrant family’s urgent motivation, incredible fortitude, fears, failures, friendships, abuse, and successes.

The most fascinating parts for me were the late-in-life reflections from those who had been involved in the IRA's brutal and unrelenting...

This book is Yip-Williams's powerful farewell to her family, but it's also valuable for anyone considering meaning in their own life.

Anappara captures the myriad sights, sounds, smells—and complicated network of politics and power—in an impoverished Indian neighborhood.

This was creepy and smart and kept me hooked, wondering if the characters were who they said they were. Libby Jones was adopted as an...

I loved the grumpy, jaded dragon of a main protagonist but had trouble with the purely evil bad guy. Vern! What I love love loved about...

This is the third and final book in Katherine Arden's strong, fanciful, often wonderfully dark Winternight trilogy.

This is beautiful, powerful, illuminating, and heart-wrenching.

I found it interesting that Schwab doesn't make you feel especially sympathetic toward either Victor or Eli. This is the second in...