These disparate stories showcase Keegan's perfectly spare, captivating storytelling; her writing feels

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

Alias Emma is a fast-paced cat-and-mouse chase across hidden London, led by Emma Makepeace, a resourceful This fast-paced thriller tracks Emma and Michael, the distractingly handsome son of Russian dissidents

unpromising married man in rural New England for an extended period) seemed to stretch the focus and pacing

The relentless pacing, romantic obsession, twists and turns, dramatic setbacks, exhilarating success,

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

The premise of Lex Croucher's Gwen & Art Are Not in Love is irresistible, the pacing is great, and the This young adult story is sweet and fun; the pacing often feels somewhat slapstick and frantic--as is

This young adult story is sweet and fun; the pacing often feels somewhat slapstick and frantic--as is

The story is heartwarming, the pacing moves along in both timelines, and the characters are explored

The premise of Lex Croucher's Gwen & Art Are Not in Love is irresistible, the pacing is great, and the

mind-bending examinations of what other characters might be up to and the combat and narrow escapes keep the pacing

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Alias Emma, a fast-paced new mystery from Ava Glass; I'm listening This fast-paced thriller tracks Emma and Michael, the distractingly handsome son of Russian dissidents

The tone is spooky and the story moves at a measured pace.

elements, but the novel is far more than that; the story is complex and strange and interesting, with a pace

As Dead (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #3) by Holly Jackson Jackson doesn't skimp on heart-pounding pacing Jackson does not let off the gas pacing-wise. in small-town Australia with dark secrets and twists and turns, and she offers more of her excellent pacing

settings, her wonderfully imperfect and intriguing characters, her foreboding undercurrents, and her pacing

The pacing of the story picks up, appropriately, when World War II begins to shift the world, exerting

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

His writing is beautiful, and its spare tone strikes the perfect chord for the wild environment his characters

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

Morris's All Her Little Secrets, a fast-paced Southern mystery that also explores issues of race and Morris is one of our picks from last year's event, and because it's a fast-paced mystery, we decided

Jackson doesn't skimp on heart-pounding pacing, captivating character development, and dark turns in Jackson does not let off the gas pacing-wise.

Cassie's years-long hiatus sloooooowed the pace of the book too much for my taste.

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

is a satisfyingly deep dive into Gould's behind-the-scenes experiences, including an often breakneck pace The story's pacing doesn't flag, although the tale sets a slower tempo as Maurice and Maralyn settle

The memoir is structured with the engaging pacing of a novel--danger, discovery, redemption, and hope At the very beginning the pacing felt a little uneven to me, but then Garg hit her stride.

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

But I've been frustrated while reading some other Hannah stories by what feels like odd pacing, soap-opera

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

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

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

The mystery here is interesting and unfolds at an engaging pace, but it's not the primary focus of the

Days, and other books. 02 The Traitor (Alias Emma #2) by Ava Glass Ava Glass's Alias Emma was a fast-paced

You are plagued by this nagging question: Why have I been spared?”

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

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

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.

The premise of Lex Croucher's Gwen & Art Are Not in Love  is irresistible, the pacing is great, and the This young adult story is sweet and fun; the pacing often feels somewhat slapstick and frantic--as is

in small-town Australia with dark secrets and twists and turns, and she offers more of her excellent pacing check out The Trackers. 06 As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson Jackson doesn't skimp on heart-pounding pacing Jackson does not let off the gas pacing-wise.

And far in the future, Konstance is in a vault on the spaceship Argos, destined for a distant planet.

The pacing flagged for me throughout the middle of the story, during the slog through various avenues is a satisfyingly deep dive into Gould's behind-the-scenes experiences, including an often breakneck pace

The book's pacing (appropriately, but sometimes painfully) flags for a time as our protagonists spend

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

Anybody the Secrets I Told You by Lucinda Williams Lucinda Williams offers a gritty, honest, captivating, spare Don't Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You was wonderful--spare yet fully developed, often surprising, Claire Keegan Keegan offers a gorgeously wrought Irish story of childhood, hope, love, and loss that is spare It's beautiful, spare, and powerful. I was brought to tears at the end.

Despite some small moments that felt heavy-handed, this is a powerful, fast-paced, compelling nonfiction He's specific without getting bogged down in the details, and the pacing of the book is appealingly quick

The pacing of First Light is a little slow at first, and I would have liked to see more science-based This is Phillips's first book, and the author builds the story's pace steadily toward a crescendo.

The memoir is structured with the engaging pacing of a novel--danger, discovery, redemption, and hope

Johnson is a master of pacing.

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