in small-town Australia with dark secrets and twists and turns, and she offers more of her excellent pacing Her books read like Westerns to me, and her sometimes spare tone suits the setting, the stark situations

I didn't love this installment quite as much as book one, but Faizal keeps the pace moving and progresses

the Tasmanian coast, Harper often sets her stories in an Australian bush setting, and her sometimes spare in small-town Australia with dark secrets and twists and turns; and she offers more of her excellent pacing

Schwab returns to the world of the four Londons in the first of a wonderfully paced new series featuring I loved returning to the wonderful Schwab pacing and banter and delving into the love stories already

Operation Bounce House is a fast-paced, bizarro, humor-filled science fiction novel featuring robots,

Harper's books read like Westerns to me, and her sometimes spare tone suits the setting, the situations Disappearing Earth is Phillips's first book, and she builds the story's pace steadily toward a crescendo

She faces unknown dangers and heartbreaking betrayal in this fast-paced novel. Ava Glass's Alias Emma was a fast-paced cat-and-mouse chase across London and through an underground

The character growth surprised me and felt in line with the tone and pacing of the story.

change within Ig, with the Auks themselves, with young Bridget, and in the world surrounding their spare

listening to this as an audiobook, and it's such a slow build, I'm both eager for it to ramp up in pacing The Australian bush setting (along with Harper's sometimes spare writing style, which complements it) in small-town Australia with dark secrets and twists and turns; and she offers more of her excellent pacing

My favorite elements were the action sequences, the opportunities for humor, and the pacing of this 640 the dragon element kept me reading with fingers crossed that the story would take off and eclipse the pacing the Empyrian series offers more page time for the talking dragons, some surprises, and a more deftly paced

This is a gentle, slow-paced story from the heart-wrenchingly gorgeous writer.

character here and the World War II-era crises, for me, the story felt somewhat disjointed and flagged in pacing

This was likely at least partially due to the book's stream of consciousness, which sets a striking pace The tone and pacing are often raw and feverish as Harrison digs into complicated issues intertwined with

Keegan offers a gorgeously wrought Irish story of childhood, hope, love, and loss that is spare, lovely It's beautiful, spare, and powerful. I was brought to tears at the end.

The pacing is appropriately slow as characters wander, wonder, and come across little new information

The Piano Tuner is a strange, slowly paced adventure story but also an anti-imperialist, pro-music take

panning this widely beloved story, but for me the sweetness was cloying; the tale slowed to a snail's pace

The pace of the story is swift, and Holsinger keeps the reader uncomfortable as the story draws to a

feels ungenerous to note in the face of so much vulnerability, sassiness, and messy truth that the pacing

The story's pacing doesn't flag, although the tale sets a slower tempo as Maurice and Maralyn settle The Knight and the Moth  is built on a spare yet satisfying fantasy world with a limited number of characters

The pacing sloooowed during this section, but I was invested.

I can't spare anybody is what I always think. But then, people must be spared.

conflict, religious fervor and faith, secret missions, and more--but I felt frequently jarred by uneven pacing Yet I was frequently distracted by what felt like uneven pacing and tone and abrupt perspective changes

Wilson allows for confrontation, and he doesn't spare our characters a messy, somewhat unsatisfying reckoning

Lucinda Williams offers a gritty, honest, captivating, spare yet fully developed memoir in which she Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You was wonderful--spare yet fully developed, often surprising,

The pacing didn't flag, and this was a fast 535-page read. More Love for V. E.

but I found the story exceedingly long and both thoroughly gruesome and extremely tedious in its slow pace

The Knight and the Moth is built on a spare yet satisfying fantasy world with a limited number of characters

The writing style involves a lot of telling, which seemingly intentionally slows the pacing--and which Yet because of the pacing, I didn't necessarily feel on the edge of my seat while I read about all of And it's the pacing and tone of the story that allows for all of those elements to feel real. 06 News

of self-actualization and character development, without ever being heavy-handed and with wonderful pacing This was really nicely paced with gripping details of the trek and of Lee's life on the road.

The pacing of The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven is measured, as befits a story that is largely about daily

swirls of truth; all the pieces make sense, but after the slow build of the majority of the book, this pacing

The dialogue is sometimes dramaaaaatic, but generally the pacing rolled right along in this one.

At the very beginning the pacing felt a little uneven to me, but then Garg hit her stride, and I was

others. 02 Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman The author of Dungeon Crawler Carl presents a fast-paced

The pacing flagged for me during this slow-roll section, although I appreciated that Stockett didn't

This was enjoyable, interesting, well paced, and charming. I loved it.

The story's pacing doesn't flag, although the tale sets a slower tempo as Maurice and Maralyn settle

Despite some implausible details, the Atlanta-set mystery is a fast-paced read. Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, it seemed like

, and its somewhat spare, streamlined structure made it feel like a fable or fairy tale.

The author's tone and voice is like poetry at times, raw and spare and true. 03 In the Country We Love The title may be a little self-conscious, but the book itself is darkly funny, with wonderfully paced The details Rum provides as a thread throughout the book of the food, spices, and meals that create much

The writing is beautifully spare, and the ending is satisfying in multiple ways.

But I wish that this book were longer and that the pacing were easier to latch onto.

drug-addled decision-making, and terrible mistakes are all essential components of the novel, yet the pacing their high culture lamented or roared in pain. ...the decades sped by and the Derangement gathered pace

sloooowly for me--my friend Kim was reading it at the same time and we were both struggling with the pacing

The slow pace and straightforward duties of the job suited Bringley, who, along with his fellow guards

Yet the tone of the book is not one of intrigue and suspense; this is a patiently paced story of a time

The story's pacing felt quite slow and the tone extremely dark and hushed for the majority of the book

I was hooked on the captivating details of Renaissance life, masterfully paced swirling danger and paranoia The skips through time wonderfully shape the story and create fascinating pacing as Lucrezia enjoys moments