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- Review of The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
The pacing of the story picks up, appropriately, when World War II begins to shift the world, exerting
- Six Four-Star Mysteries I Loved Reading in the Past Year
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
- Review of Kills Well with Others (Killers of a Certain Age #2) by Deanna Raybourn
mind-bending examinations of what other characters might be up to and the combat and narrow escapes keep the pacing
- Six Books Set in Australia that Are Fair Dinkum Fascinating
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
- Review of The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
Cassie's years-long hiatus sloooooowed the pace of the book too much for my taste.
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/27/23 Edition
second in the series offers more page time for the talking dragons, some surprises, and a more deftly paced
- Review of The Last Days of Night by Graham Moore
The pacing of the the first 100 pages felt slow, but after that I was totally hooked on this very compelling
- Review of The Women by Kristin Hannah
But I've been frustrated while reading some other Hannah stories by what feels like odd pacing, soap-opera
- Review of Red Notice by Bill Browder
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
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 4/10/23 Edition
You are plagued by this nagging question: Why have I been spared?”
- Review of A Treacherous Curse (Veronica Speedwell #3) by Deanna Raybourn
The mystery here is interesting and unfolds at an engaging pace, but it's not the primary focus of the
- Review of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley
The slow pace and straightforward duties of the job suited Bringley, who, along with his fellow guards
- Review of The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
The pacing is slow, and the book is largely made up of various characters talking about conflicting memories
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 9/18/23 Edition
Days, and other books. 02 The Traitor (Alias Emma #2) by Ava Glass Ava Glass's Alias Emma was a fast-paced
- Review of Something Wilder by Christina Lauren
the acknowledgments, the authors reference wanting to create a Romancing the Stone-type playful, fast-paced
- Thankful for More Five-Star Bossy Reads
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
- Six of My Favorite Reads of the Year So Far
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.
- Review of Light Changes Everything by Nancy E. Turner
But I found the pacing somewhat jarring and uneven. development or experience the intensity of the exciting events because of feeling yanked back and forth in pacing
- Review of The Vanishing Stair (Truly Devious #2) by Maureen Johnson
Johnson is a master of pacing.
- Six Fascinating Historical Fiction Stories about the Civil War
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.
- Review of The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
This is a wonderfully paced and recounted Cold War-era true story of spy intrigue, paranoia, bravery, The Spy and the Traitor is a wonderfully paced and skillfully recounted Cold War-era story of spy intrigue
- Six of My Favorite Rom-Com Reads of the Year
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
- Six Chilly Books to Read in the Heat of Summer
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.
- My Very Favorite Bossy 2023 Reads
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.
- The Six Best Mysteries I Read Last Year
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
- Review of Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot #6) by Martha Wells
There are sections of sometimes tedious-feeling logistics, but the pacing of Fugitive Telemetry kept
- Review of Black Bottom Saints by Alice Randall
Randall offered about everyday life during different eras, but the fifty-two sections and rambling pace But the pace of the book felt distractingly rambling to me.
- Review of Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith
It was nicely paced, and I liked having time to dig into the characters' evolution and the mystery's
- Review of The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy
The pacing felt uneven to me, and shifts in mood and manner sometimes seemed abrupt, so that it was tough
- Review of Sociopath: A Memoir by Patric Gagne
The memoir is structured with the engaging pacing of a novel--danger, discovery, redemption, and hope
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 1/23/23 Edition
I'm listening to a fast-paced Libro.fm audiobook (Libro.fm supports local bookstores!)
- Review of A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti
each disparate world--and finding to their surprise that they have connected with a place, with its pace
- Review of The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) by Jane Harper
Harper's writing and tone remind me of a more spare Tana French.
- Review of Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton
This is a fast-paced book, as Dolly talks about various thoughts as related to 175 of her songs, while
- Review of The Golden Enclaves (Scholomance #3) by Naomi Novik
This didn't make The Golden Enclaves the most darkly fun, deeply emotional, or captivatingly paced book
- Review of Swift the Storm, Fierce the Flame by Meg Long
All of this dramatically slowed the pacing of the story.
- Review of Beneath a Starless Sky by Tessa Harris
Harris's book is fast-paced, without a lot of page time spent setting a background or lingering on self-reflection
- Review of Come and Get It by Kiley Reid
The title of the book sets a tone that feels fast-paced, or sassy, or spirited.
- Review of Tom Lake by Ann Patchett
But both the steady pacing and the unique, sequestered Covid-dictated circumstances of Tom Lake made
- Review of Forty Autumns by Nina Willner
many moving parts and family characters are fluidly shaped into compelling reading by Willner, and the pacing
- Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/29/21 Edition
young brothers desperately trying to stay together and stay alive in rural Idaho; Wendy Heard's fast-paced With Nico's troublemaking and incessant challenges to the status quo serving as a catalyst for fast-paced
- Six More Four-Star (and Up) Mysteries I Loved in the Past Year
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
- My Bossy Favorite Reads of the Summer
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,
- Review of the Cormoran Strike series books 1-4 by Robert Galbraith
This isn't a fast-paced series, yet I've consistently felt hooked on how the cases build--and on the Galbraith's pacing pulls you along without cheap twists, and the writing is precise and wonderful, with
- Review of Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
author posits that when grief, worry, or challenges feel overwhelming, shifting your schedule and your pace
- Review of Out Front the Following Sea by Leah Angstman
I found all of this extensive description fascinating, even as it slowed the pacing of the story and
- Review of Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
The book started off at a measured pace.
- Review of Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
what would come to pass, and what the real story was to read somewhat slowly compared to the energetic pacing
- Review of Gilded Mountain by Kate Manning
in Sylvie's life (mixed emotions, attraction, confusion, lies, and secrets) make for jumbled-feeling pacing
- May Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month
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,