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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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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