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553 results found for "shifting loyalties"
- Review of Call Your Daughter Home by Deb Spera
turnaround in thinking—it seemed that she’d had reminders of this reasoning without being inspired to shift
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/12/21 Edition
adjustment to life without her free-spirited, joy-filled partner; and tracks the grief and the resulting shifts
- January Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
But as he uses his smarts, his unlikely allies, and his loyalty to get by, he finds himself discovering I loved the characters' dynamics, the outsider Ferius Pargosi who becomes a mentor and deeply loyal friend
- Six Historical Fiction Mysteries Sure 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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 8/29/22 Edition
The story shifts between 1918, when a young woman at the Dead Letter Office bravely embarks on a dangerous
- Review of Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Young Mungo explores ideas of masculinity and loyalty, a gay relationship forged in an intensely unforgiving
- Review of American Girl by Wendy Walker
The fierce loyalty and revenge elements in this intriguing whodunit were immensely satisfying.
- Six Spooky, Gothic Tales
with the kickass, whip smart, savvy, kind, and irresistible Bridie are her striking and unfailingly loyal Wren is a loose cannon, a fierce soldier, intensely loyal, a magical healer, and she has an uncontrollable fantasy elements are all in place here: magic, healing, a defiant main protagonist with a conscience, loyalty
- Review of Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair
challenges, the varied experiences of those with multiple sclerosis, and the various ways in which it has shifted
- Review of The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell
A smart master thief bends time and finds her loyalties divided in turn-of-the-century New York. who's a genius with knives, and Harte Darrigan as a stage (and actual) magician whose loyalties are difficult revelations-come-too-late (the identification of her parents; the potential for a future with Harte; and the reestablished loyalty
- Review of Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi
It's gratifying to see Gifty shift her thinking and her approach slightly in order to open up just a
- Review of The Levee by William Kent Krueger
Secrets and loyalties swirl as the levee threatens to give, flooding the land.
- Review of The Project by Courtney Summers
characters' exchanges in The Project felt a little unrealistic and overdramatic, as did the jumps and major shifts
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/13/23 Edition
Secrets and loyalties swirl as the levee threatens to give, flooding the town.
- Review of His Majesty's Dragon: Temeraire #1 by Naomi Novik
talking dragons, their complex, wonderfully faulted handlers, and wartime conflicts demanding bravery and loyal Temeraire is young, greedy, vain, and outrageously loyal to Will, and Will is attempting to civilize of the nine books in the Temeraire series, in which the dragons are haughty and greedy and intensely loyal
- Review of The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
A full genre shift around page 400 would normally make me want to throw a book through the window.
- Review of Upgrade by Blake Crouch
is the norm, and geneticists who have tried tinkering with the human state in a desperate attempt to shift
- Review of Beautiful Country by Qian Julie Wang
s existence as new immigrants in the US so terrifyingly tenuous and measures that could potentially shift
- Review of How to End a Love Story by Yulin Kuang
Angeles and is adjusting to the showy personas she's encountering and to participating in the process of shifting
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 6/27/22 Edition
Casey McQuiston's One Last Stop, a mostly lighthearted romp through New York City, lesbian love, and shifts
- Review of The Office of Historical Corrections by Danielle Evans
Her plan is shifted by the arrival of another person she feels she must care for, at which point she Evans explores what is accepted as truth, as fact, and as history, as well as who has the power to shift
- Review of My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
life-and-death conflict is not religion, but the rights and very existence of Eðians (those who shape shift
- Review of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig
I enjoyed main protagonist Tom Hazard’s point of view, which evolves by the close of the story, the shift
- Review of The Guide by Peter Heller
But when things began unraveling in the story, I felt as though the tone of the book shifted abruptly
- Review of Lost in Time by A.G. Riddle
The characters move through interesting moments and shift their understanding of previously mysterious
- Review of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Gideon’s speech is modern and biting, there are darkly funny moments, and the friendships and loyalty read—Gideon’s speech is modern and biting, there are darkly funny moments, and the friendships and loyalty
- Review of What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
After tragedies and disappointments, the novel ultimately shifts to forgiveness, practical adjustments
- Review of I'm Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
listen with care and then to do thoughtful, better, specific work toward achieving racial diversity and shifting
- Review of August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (The Starmetal Symphony #1) by Alex White
My obsession with the irresistible dry humor, grudging and undying loyalty, and love for the series The
- Review of What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson
Cory Anderson's debut is a story about darkness, desperation, unlikely loyalty, and, ultimately, brave What Beauty There Is is a story about darkness, desperation, unlikely loyalty, and, ultimately, brave
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 10/15/21 Edition
oldest friend Jonas have just crossed a line, betraying their spouses--and may have set into motion a shift
- Review of Things We Do in the Dark by Jennifer Hillier
Things We Do in the Dark involves mistaken identities, betrayals, secrets and lies, fierce loyalty between
- Review of The Light After the War by Anita Abriel
Then Abriel introduces another enormous shift that shakes things up enormously yet again for both young
- Review of Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan
white, good and bad view of the characters and their blame dramatically simplifies a reader's expected loyalties
- Review of The Guncle by Steven Rowley
I was distracted by the brief, repeated shifts in point of view from Patrick to other characters.
- October Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
sobering, often surprisingly hopeful--but never too easy--peek at Depression-era desperation, forged loyalties The fierce loyalty and revenge elements in this intriguing whodunit were immensely satisfying.
- Review of Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama: A Memoir by Bob Odenkirk
The incomplete sentences and lightning-fast topic shifts took some getting used to, but they add to the
- Review of Last Summer at the Golden Hotel by Elyssa Friedland
summary toward the end of the book, with abrupt point of view changes and brief scenes with multiple shifts
- Review of The Awakening: The Dragon Heart Legacy #1 by Nora Roberts
The point of view starts periodically shifting about halfway through the book from Breen to other characters
- Review of A Song for the Road by Kathleen Basi
felt a little abrupt to me, but by that time I had already become satisfied with the lead-up and the shifts
- November Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
omniscient viewpoint, Beautiful World Where Are You tracks the characters' romantic fits and starts, power shifts here. 05 Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau In Blau's gleefully 1970s-set novel, Mary Jane doesn't merely shift
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
oddball tragicomedy with heart, characters explore the limits and solidity of friendship and family 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
- Review of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Their wild success and their devastating lows--both individual and collective--test their loyalty to
- Six Short Story Collections to Wow You
Strout shines a light on turning points: small but powerful shifts of power or emotion, masterfully illustrating
- Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Reading in the Past Year
Meanwhile Harper explores loyalty, procedural details related to the past and near past, beginnings and The fierce loyalty and revenge elements in this intriguing whodunit were immensely satisfying.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 2/20/23 Edition
As Italian immigrant Grace is faced with compromises and tradeoffs, she'll have to decide her own loyalties
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/18/22 Edition
The shift has made for strange bedfellows—and a prickly partnership between our main protagonist, Ellen
- Review of One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
in a really fun, interesting way, and through the time-jump premise McQuiston's characters explore loyalty
- Review of The Harpy by Megan Hunter
The shift in their relationship's dynamic was intriguing to see on the page: Jake wonders when the next
- Six Four-Star (and Up) Historical Fiction Reads I Loved Last Year
sobering, often surprisingly hopeful--but never too easy--peek at Depression-era desperation, forged loyalties Morton's story explores secrets, loyalties, mysteries, and the complicated matter of family--those you
















































