provides some heartbreaking disappointment about family members' emotional limitations and conditional loyalty Yet there are bright points: rare friendships emerge, sisters build intense loyalty to each other, girls see A Woman Is No Man. 06 In Five Years by Rebecca Serle This alternate-reality story is really about loyalty ’t shake the possibilities raised and the uncertainty created by what felt like an actual temporary shift

tiers of control within the faerie-controlled underbelly of society and powerful enough to potentially shifting

is cold (check out these other Bossy reviews of titles with cold settings ), and climate change  and shifting Everlasting  involves jaunts through multiple versions of the same story, as our fantastic main protagonists shift Harrow's tale involves multiple do-overs and attempts to shift events and alter reality--while the unlikely Correspondent by Virginia Evans This quiet, epistolary novel witnesses the creaky, sometimes difficult shifts Names. 10 Isola by Allegra Goodman Isola , based upon the story of a real-life sixteenth-century woman, shifts

But I felt unmoored by the enormous shift into time travel and its inspiration within the story: a passionate But the story of The Invisible Hour makes a massive shift halfway through, when--spoiler--Mia travels to escape it, the haven found in books, and, ultimately, Mia's peaceful second chapter of life and shift

Chakraborty Amina al-Sirafi is an irresistible character--spicy, determined, nurturing, cutthroat, loyal sometimes grumpy pirate Amina al-Sirafi and her complicated quest, strategic swearing, strength, fierce loyalty Strong women are at the heart of this story, as are their unfailing loyalties to family and friends,

Everlasting  involves jaunts through multiple versions of the same story, as our fantastic main protagonists shift Harrow's tale involves multiple do-overs and attempts to shift events and alter reality--while the unlikely Correspondent by Virginia Evans This quiet, epistolary novel witnesses the creaky, sometimes difficult shifts

The many points of view added depth to the characters, but at a cost: I felt somewhat jarred by shifting

But Grace's uncanny sense of the sea and its moods, her undeniable fortitude, and her passion for and loyalty

After the women in the novel develop an audacious plan to make money and thereby gain the power to shift

Then a shocking realization upends Cate's carefully curated life and shifts her understanding of all

and feared "Overland" pests (giant, talking cockroaches, rats, and bats) into essential allies and loyal throughout this story and instead delight in the humor, the noble quest, the unlikely heroes, the familial loyalty

The project shifts her thinking in unanticipated ways.

Deepti Kapoor's Age of Vice shifts through time and points of view to explore outrageous wealth, ruthless The Passenger shifts from New Orleans to an oil rig off the Florida coast and places in between while

of the hotel guests, Bailey thinks Charlie is actually pretty fun, and she looks forward to her work shifts

second-chance book in which the main character gets the opportunity to go back and try again, redo their life, shift But Atkinson's thrusting of Ursula back into her same existence as she shifts her circumstances slightly Dannie can’t shake the possibilities and uncertainty created by what felt like an actual, temporary shift The setup seems like it’s a romance, but it’s really a story about loyalty and devoted friendship without

In The Witch Elm, French dips her toe into exploring how luck, (sometimes blind) loyalty—and, in several pool of potential culprits for Nathan to examine in this story of uncovering truths, family history, loyalty

Bono explores his faith, family, loyalty, inspiration, and important activism efforts. He is a family man and fiercely loyal to his bandmates and friends.

His shift into comedy also offers a look behind the curtains at the good, bad, and ugly, but mainly focuses

Relationships grow and shift, and some slow-motion demises occur while the story progresses, which adds

I also have a t-shirt with this book title on it. And I also adore the author. the attraction between Gwen's lady's maid and Arthur's right-hand-man); the unorthodox and touching loyalty The story celebrates true friendship, loyalty, and fantastic, clever, clever ladies overcoming obstacles

I found the frequent focus on logistics and off-screen political and business loyalties a little bit

moments as an unlikely pack of allies set out on a journey of discovery, complete with battles, evolving loyalties

When she pushes against her restrictions in a brilliant yet shocking manner in order to shift her future beginner's primer on Deaf culture, and a captivating novel about romance, disappointment, fury, and loyalty adults), the rebellious new transfer student who doesn't know ASL, Charlie, and teacher's pet (and Deaf royalty

the Wolves, Long offers an intriguing story of brutal conditions, determined survival, hard-earned loyalty Neither is quite sure where the other's loyalties begin and end, nor are they intimately acquainted with the interplay of characters--particularly the grudging friendship and grumpily built but rock-solid loyalty colonization, the universal connection of music, the temptation to change the past, portals and time loops, loyalty structure for our true main protagonist, Gaspary, and we see the most depth and development and change; loyalty

It's nominally a mystery, but it's mainly a heartwarming story about determination and honoring old loyalties

The cover-up occurs immediately, with the book focusing on the repercussions of secrets, lies, loyalty

At times the story felt as though it was shifting into overly dramatic soap-opera territory for me, and

subsequent years, and I didn't feel immersed in the novel; I was told that deep feelings (of friendship, loyalty

Dannie can’t shake the possibilities and uncertainty created by what felt like an actual, temporary shift The setup seems like the story is a romance, but it’s actually a story about loyalty and devoted friendship A full genre shift around page 400 would normally make me want to throw a book through the window.

I could not have predicted each version of me that I shifted into, but through my history, one constant

The tone of the book shifts from an interconnected, charming small-town tale to feeling as though a dark

She's never welcomed change before, but maybe, just maybe, she will be able to shift her perspective

Neither is quite sure where the other's loyalties begin and end, nor are they intimately acquainted with the interplay of characters--particularly the grudging friendship and grumpily built but rock-solid loyalty The shift has made for strange bedfellows—and a prickly partnership between our main protagonist, Ellen I loved how Clinton and Penny made me question the loyalty and intentions of almost everyone in State

as the story progresses and she relies more fully on her own instincts, she has waning interest in shifting

childhood encounters with nature, and for me the book really shone when she included her family's current shifts

The cover-up occurs immediately, with the book focusing on the repercussions of secrets, lies, loyalty

Everett turns multiple situations from Huckleberry Finn on their heads, frequently empowering James to shift

Then a shocking realization upends her carefully curated life and shifts her understanding of all she

There's an enormous career shift that felt an awful lot like a woman giving up a career for a guy, although distant and focused on appearances rather than being tuned into her happiness, then late in the game they shifted

into the depths of despair, throwing at them physical and mental damage, emotional angst, and painful shifts With enormous shifts in Iran as catalysts for changes in their own lives, the friends dramatically diverge

handyman prowess and ability to get done anything needed; his unshakeable demeanor; and his complete loyalty

absurdity of the premise had me hooked early on, but in the last quarter of the book the screwball events shift

In Blau's gleefully 1970s-set novel, Mary Jane doesn't merely shift from emotional innocence to young doctor has only one current patient, a famous rock star with addiction problems, and in an unorthodox shift The character of Mary Jane doesn't merely shift from innocence to young adulthood in various ways; she

If you've read any of Jen Hatmaker's writing, you're likely familiar with her passionate loyalty to and

The other plotline concerns Lurie, a man who has adventures and challenges with his surprising, loyal a deeper, quiet, surprisingly affecting story beneath the Western adventure, which is about trust, loyalty

Kitasei considers matters of duty and loyalty versus desire for individuality and imagination; emotional

The end sections where events are clicking along, alliances are shifting and changing, and dramatic justice

nineteenth-century Dodge City, Kansas, offers up a tough young heroine who makes mistakes but whose perseverance and loyalty for a fellow "sporting woman," and when the Buffalo Queen is threatened, she must determine where her loyalties

moments as an unlikely pack of allies sets out on a journey of discovery, complete with battles, evolving loyalties

Miller allows the frequently dreaded and bemoaned middle-aged shifts and changes to lead her female characters in a really fun, interesting way, and through the time-jump premise McQuiston's characters explore loyalty Young Mungo explores ideas of masculinity and loyalty, a gay relationship forged in an intensely unforgiving