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597 results found for "shifting loyalties"
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/14/25 Edition
mass), the climate is cold (check out these other titles with cold settings ), and climate change and shifting
- Review of Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck
Lewis as they adjust to the sudden prospect of a drastic, potentially deadly (to Wren), fundamental shift
- Review of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley
Bringley and his wife have two young children by the time he ends his stint at the Met and shifts into
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 7/10/23 Edition
Stern series, Hell Bent, in which grumpy, tough, magical, irresistible Alex assembles a ragtag group of loyal love returning to Alex's creative, irresistibly unorthodox approach to life and her grumpy, undying loyalty
- Six Historical Fiction Favorites
Abriel introduces an enormous shift that shakes things up enormously for both young women before the reimagined faith, the frustrations of societal expectations for women, great adventure, strong female loyalty
- Review of As Good As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3) by Holly Jackson
However, I was completely hooked not only by Jackson's story but by the character evolution, the loyal friendships, the adorable relationship growth between Ravi and Pip--and particularly by this book's dark shift
- Review of Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
But I felt as though the last hundred pages or so of Malibu Rising shifted into melodrama and too-convenient But I felt as though the last hundred pages or so of Malibu Rising shifted into melodrama, and from that
- Review of Kin by Tayari Jones
and privilege; the paralysis of poverty; issues of race, civil rights, education, and women's rights; loyalty
- August Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
She's failing out of school, working some shifts at a diner, and living in a nonfunctioning motorhome But Atkinson's thrusting of Ursula back into her same existence as she shifts her circumstances slightly to read (well, to listen to as an audiobook, which I did), and it focused on quirky friends, family loyalty
- Review of Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash
The point of view frequently shifts, and many chapters are short, but I felt connected to each of the
- Review of Unsinkable by Jenni L. Walsh
wrapped up with a bow as though according to a formulaic "happy ending" equation, and I found this shift
- Review of What the Mountains Remember by Joy Callaway
city of tuberculosis sanatoriums; those behind the Grove Park Inn project are working furiously to shift
- Six Historical Fiction Backlist Favorites
reader is able to see events unfolding while the characters remain unaware, but watching the pieces shift 1830s New York, immigrant challenges, Irish gangs, people pretending to be different than they are, shifted
- Six More Great Fiction Titles I Loved This Year
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 ’t shake the possibilities raised and the 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
- Review of Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood
The steamy scenes, the twisty route to the relationship, the career shifts, and the science focus were
- Review of All the Water in the World by Eiren Caffall
The climate-change novel is powerful, disturbing, and, starkly lovely in its stripped-away love and loyalty
- My Six Favorite Reads of the First Half of 2025
01 Isola by Allegra Goodman Isola , based upon the story of a real-life sixteenth-century woman, shifts is cold (check out these other Bossy reviews of titles with cold settings ), and climate change and shifting
- Review of My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan
light-fiction structure to take on seriously weighty issues like family dynamic struggles, commitment, loyalty
- Review of Steelstriker (Skyhunter #2) by Marie Lu
With intriguing questions about loyalties and motivations, gutsy skirmishes, deep friendships, familial action, deceit, political maneuvering, and gutsy skirmishes, and Lu made me question the motivations and loyalties romance from a distance, focusing mainly on their emotional connection and the strength of undying loyalty
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/24/23 Edition
A chance meeting shifts the paths of their lives forever.
- Review of Blackwater Falls by Ausma Zehanat Khan
religious fervor and faith, secret missions, and more--but I felt frequently jarred by uneven pacing and shifts
- Review of The Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett
issues of class, wealth and privilege, duty, the power of nature, handicaps and gifts, and betrayal and loyalty
- Review of The Dream Builders by Oindrila Mukherjee
Characters shift from upstanding to suspect, from envied to emotionally wrecked, from without hope to
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/3/25 Edition
When there is talk of Violet's engagement and pending marriage, Junie realizes that this shift would
- Review of The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith
Robin's loyalty is to Strike in this case, and this doesn't help her relationship with Ryan, who is hoping
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/29/25 Edition
Everyone is linked, with shared youths, conflicts, resentments, and loyalties.
- Review of The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
civilization buckles to the power of weather and ocean while certain species thrive in the extreme changes and shifted
- Review of The Last Bookshop in London: A Novel of World War II by Madeline Martin
We see Grace become won over by the creaky old store and by her gruff boss, the shifting role each woman
- Review of The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Might leave you feeling like the earth had gone and shifted under your feet.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/20/25 Edition
But as he uses his smarts, his unlikely allies, and his loyalty to get by, he finds himself discovering
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
an anchor in deeper issues, some steamy scenes, conflicting feelings surrounding coming home again, shifting Can she shift the future by changing the past? this first in a young adult fantasy series, but what hooked me was the fearless, hardened, fiercely loyal
- Review of October in the Earth by Olivia Hawker
sobering, often surprisingly hopeful--but never too easy--peek at Depression-era desperation, forged loyalties
- Review of Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
Can she shift the future by changing the past?
- Review of Hello Beautiful by Ann Napolitano
William's entry into the Padavano family dynamic shifts things irrevocably, and he finds himself frequently
- April Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
Meanwhile Harper explores loyalty, procedural details related to the past and near past, beginnings and Wilson Moon is a drifter displaced from his tribal lands, and a chance meeting between Wil and Victoria shifts
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/21/23 Edition
He finds himself in the odd position of living in his own past while trying to shift into his future
- Six Historical Fiction Mysteries to Intrigue You
This book had many moving parts, evolving points of view and senses of self, shifts between days and whip smart, savvy, kind, and irresistible main protagonist Bridie are her striking and unfailingly loyal adventures—all alongside a dark and brooding and heavily tattooed adventurer and naturalist who becomes a loyal
- Review of Go As a River by Shelley Read
Wilson Moon is a drifter displaced from his tribal lands, and a chance meeting between Wil and Victoria shifts
- Review of Those We Thought We Knew by David Joy
young Black artist encounters a local Confederate statue that is still standing, and its existence shifts
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/7/23 Edition
But the young Black artist encounters a Confederate statue that is still standing, and its existence shifts
- Review of Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live by Susan Morrison
His loyalty to not just the show but his cast and writers is powerful.
- Six Bossy Favorite Science Fiction Reads from the Past Year
bodily autonomy, transgender characters, characters without bodies but with sentient selves, duty and loyalty The climate-change novel is powerful, disturbing, and, starkly lovely in its stripped-away love and loyalty
- Review of The Favorites by Layne Fargo
and Heath's and an attention-grabbing behind-the-scenes reporter with redemptive, golden moments of loyalty
- Review of Machinehood by S.B. Divya
She manages to keep her virtual tip jar full, and her biggest challenge lately has been shifting her I wished for more page time spent on everyday tasks and activities (cooking, shifting household modules significant summary, and as events move along during the late phase of the story, we see abrupt changes and shifts
- Review of This Is Happiness by Niall Williams
his grandparents' heartbreaking aging (as well as their their somewhat inexplicable but undeniable loyalty
- Review of A Power Unbound (Last Binding #3) by Freya Marske
The friends-like-family element and deep loyalty is strong among the members of Jack's group, and the
- Review of Beasts of a Little Land by Juhea Kim
and shaping all of their lives involves love triangles, superstition, heartbreak, and a complicated, shifting
- Six of My Favorite Fiction Reads Last Year
Young Mungo explores ideas of masculinity and loyalty, a gay relationship forged in an intensely unforgiving Miller allows the frequently dreaded and bemoaned middle-aged shifts and changes to lead her female characters
- The Once and Future Queen (Lives of Guinevere #1) by Paula Lafferty
And growing conflicts, puzzling developments, and murky motivations and loyalties complicate everything
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/22/24 Edition
of the hotel guests, Bailey thinks Charlie is actually pretty fun, and she looks forward to her work shifts

















































