Cash's best friend Delaney is a genius who daydreams while working at Dairy Queen, and she's always braced

Other characters in the novel face mutation-related difficulties--including Wren's new friend, who finds

Meanwhile, Annie, who was literally created to serve Doug, is learning, evolving, growing, facing internal

and when Rule of Wolves picks up with these characters for book two, they're all coping with loss, facing danger, and are bracing for destruction as Fjerda invades Ravka.

Her childhood trauma has a strong hold on her, and only when she begins to face it can she fully realize

The book's pace felt halting at times and its substance somewhat light at points. The pace of the book is sometimes halting and its sections about scripture at times felt a little light

This fast-paced suspense read is the ultimate "trouble in paradise" story, with twist and turns that characters, but I was more than willing to roll with whatever Hawkins was laying out for readers in the fast-paced

second in the series offers more page time for the talking dragons, some surprises, and a more deftly paced

She makes a special connection with a mountain family facing tough times despite their double work at

Resolutions were graceful and fitting without being too easy. In Dark Triumph, the book's point of view traces events concurrent with those in the first book, so the I love Bardugo's pacing, dialogue, twists and turns, character development, all of it, and I gave this These six books were published over a period of almost twenty-five years, and the story trail traces Queen of the Tearling traces the backstories of key characters and offers varied points of view.

But when she awakens the next morning bracing to face the living nightmare her family has begun living

But she's determined to follow her own path--and her strong-willed decisions fly in the face of rigid

story about time travel gone wrong--and a connection from the future that could be one man's saving grace

The story is heartwarming, the pacing moves along in both timelines, and the characters are explored The story's pacing felt quite slow and the tone extremely dark and hushed for the majority of the book

father has more kids spread across the country as well--Rube and Mad head out on an awkward, nerve-racking later, she traveled to a remote Australian island to sit with Tony's journals, dive into her memories, rage

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As he faces a scheduled yearly vacation to Hilton Head, he attempts to get rid of his wife's belongings

with a fun Parent Trap -style backdrop--and weighty issues like depression that are addressed with grace This is an excellent example of how authors of light fiction can take on weighty issues with grace and

But when her last remaining parent figure disappears without a trace, Tamsin is forced to go to great Along the way, they face deathly threats, mysterious magic, a tangled web of lore and superstition, and

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I loved it and rated the collection five stars. At the very beginning the pacing felt a little uneven to me, but then Garg hit her stride, and I was to Tender Hearts by Annie Hartnett In this heartwarming story of wonderfully faulted characters who face While the characters in The Road to Tender Hearts  face sometimes devastating turns of events, the tone

The pacing is slow, and the book is largely made up of various characters talking about conflicting memories

Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell I was hooked on the captivating details of Renaissance life, masterfully paced what sometimes feels like fragility, Lucy is often able to see the difficult truth in situations and face

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The pacing of the the first 100 pages felt slow, but after that I was totally hooked on this very compelling

and by her unreliable narrator Isabelle, who is desperate to find her missing son--even if it means facing

curiosity about being with another man; The Long and Painful Death follows a writer at a retreat who faces Click here to read my rave reviews of Claire Keegan's novels Foster and Small Things Like These and

This is a gentle, slow-paced story from the heart-wrenchingly gorgeous writer. The character growth surprised me and felt in line with the tone and pacing of the story.

Can they learn to trust each other and face the past in order to move forward? When her mother faces a health crisis, as they’ve long feared, the family's security and future may be

Amina soon finds herself tangled in a dangerous ocean quest to rescue a young woman, while facing complicated

I loved the books here so much, I rated each of them 4.5 or 5 Bossy stars. But when she awakens the next morning bracing to face the living nightmare her family has begun living

pivotal moments with each of his living sisters, discusses his sister Tiffany, who died of suicide, and faces

But Titus is facing challenges beyond the obvious--like the effects of generations of racism in his small

I think the pacing and the fantastical worlds lend themselves well to audiobook form. There's love, but it is chaste (lots of gazing into each other's eyes and touching faces); there's one

And a typical day might involve facing mortal danger from roving pirates, cyborg animals, certain AI

the acknowledgments, the authors reference wanting to create a Romancing the Stone-type playful, fast-paced

Story by Emily Habeck Wren's kind, artistic, loving--and recent--husband Lewis has just received a rare Other characters in the novel face mutation-related difficulties--including Wren's new friend, who finds

But after raving about it for two years it seemed time to stop letting this second installment languish about Alexia's mysterious father (and about her husband's centuries of history that predate her), more racy

It's 1789, and in a rural Maine community, a local man turns up dead--frozen face up in the Kennebec But he had been one of two men charged with the rape of one of Martha's best friends, and now the sole

Plunging into the unforgiving, beautiful, wild land, the women face dangers and surprises in order to And each ended the night full and happy with the rare glow that comes from knowing your very being has

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in again to the complicated, tragic reunion of former college roommates; from a mourning elderly man faced

Charlotte is faced with an unexpected client: Lady Ingram, the wife of Charlotte's dear friend and benefactor

, they're faced with one challenge after another as they try to balance their careers with making space

to read about people making unhealthy or unhelpful choices for themselves, so I spent a lot of time bracing

Despite some small moments that felt heavy-handed, this is a powerful, fast-paced, compelling nonfiction is A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice, and in Red Notice, Browder traces He's specific without getting bogged down in the details, and the pacing of the book is appealingly quick

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But I absolutely loved how Una was a strong, determined, gritty young woman in the face of so many enormous the tone of Hanan's book is such that it feels evident that the reader won't be left unsatisfied or facing

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