I think the shifting back and forth in time could have felt jumpy, but it worked well for the story's

In Hartnett's tragicomedy Unlikely Animals, the author explores friendship and family loyalty, mistakes

advantage of these, Hiram must learn to understand and master his mysterious powers that allow for shifts

Perhaps most satisfyingly, he allows a hard-fought loyalty to emerge between Bethany and Owen.

characters' strongly held assumptions and prejudices surrounding Mods and Primes, and Wren's fierce loyalty

suspicious circumstances surrounding Bryn's parents' long-ago deaths, and an extended family with mysterious loyalties

It highlights unlikely loyalties forged during desperate times, terrible scenes of cruelty, and shocking

There's a "woman dresses as a man to escape gender limitations" trope; the story emphasizes loyalty,

The steamy scenes, the twisty route to the relationship, the career shifts, and the science focus were

aspects of war and love, but his journey to the north inspires him to consider issues of class and loyalty

whether to prioritize her lost-and-found love or the makeshift family toward whom she's come to feel loyal Dave explores powerful messages of loyalty, acts of true love and sacrifice, and bravery. teenaged foolishness that leads to trouble, glimpses of satisfying romance, and wonderfully complicated loyalties

And: Whose loyalty can be trusted? Whose memory is solid?

a rigid faith, marriage/child/parental/educational expectations for women, adventure, strong female loyalty

This is a quick read, and I liked the extended-family loyalty and the revisiting of a seemingly ill-fated

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

characters' strongly held assumptions and prejudices surrounding Mods and Primes, and Wren's fierce loyalty

orphan Sherri Taylor, the resort is an open door to a life of excitement and opportunity, an appealing shift

She's failing out of school, working some shifts at a diner, and living in a nonfunctioning motorhome

Things You Save in a Fire is a quick read that addresses serious matters—betrayal, loyalty, duty, trust

She's failing out of school, working some shifts at a diner, and living in a nonfunctioning motorhome

Dave explores powerful messages of loyalty, acts of true love and sacrifice, and bravery.

But Atkinson's thrusting of Ursula back into her same existence until she shifts her circumstances slightly

I admit that I felt loyalty to her boyfriend "Will," who saw her through years of significant difficulties

to read (well, to listen to as an audiobook, which I did), and it focused on quirky friends, family loyalty

This quiet, epistolary novel witnesses the creaky, sometimes difficult shifts and realizations that a

Boulley explores Daunis's complex feelings of loyalty and duty to her community—but her potential betrayal

The bear does ultimately shift everything for their family, and the story is brutal in its climax, yet

Tokyo Ever After is about identity, expectations, truth, challenges, betrayal, loyalty, and self-discovery

Can she shift the future by changing the past?

Family, pain, love, music, influence, trust, wonder, brutality, invention, discovery, loyalty, and most

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

The setting was such a standout here for me, but I felt jarred by the tone shifts.

provides some heartbreaking disappointment about family members' emotional limitations and conditional loyalty

The inclusion, loyalty, and friendships here were heartwarming.

as steady presences felt in many cases to be insufferable, selfish, and with little sense of duty or loyalty

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Honor, Thrity Umrigar's story of love, loyalty, oppressive tradition

They're both once-in-a-generation wizards for different reasons, and if anyone can shift the Scholomance

also follows a version of events in which the real-life figure of Sarah Grimke makes a slow, twisting shift

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

into the country's traditions, political interests, and its royal family's interpersonal conflicts and loyalties

memoir Somebody's Daughter, Ford explores her complicated relationship with her mother, her endless loyalty

Relationships shift, unlikely ties grow stronger, characters grow apart and find their way back together

Kalanithi makes a shocking shift from being a doctor helping terminally ill patients to being a patient

The frequency of pithy remarks, zingers, and succinct rules of life added to the zigzagging, shifting

Reading Now I'm reading Our Woman in Moscow, Beatriz Williams's story of Cold War espionage and family loyalty

she impulsively writes a letter to the calm, kind, handsome host, starting a correspondence that will shift that delivers delightful, charming banter, the promise of a new romance for Teddy, and wonderfully loyal

But French also dips her toe into how privilege, luck, (possibly somewhat blind) loyalty—and, in several

For much of the book I wasn't quite clear on the status of the characters' evolving romantic loyalties

a climax that draws his attention and focus to the matter at hand and they thereby lead to various shifts

Young Mungo explores ideas of masculinity and loyalty, young love, a gay relationship forged in an unforgiving