page-turner

Example Sentences

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But I think a lot of times when we talk about page-turner, we don’t really talk about the craft behind that, so I was wondering if you could share a little bit behind the process behind how you decided to structure the novel in this particular way.

From Salon

The judges said: "A novel about class ascension and a man who is remarkably detached from his desires, and a disquisition on the art of being alive. It is also an absolute page-turner."

From BBC

The creeping horror at the center of Ishiguro’s science fiction is surrounded by the tensions of growing up in this literary page-turner.

From Los Angeles Times

However, both he and Fiennes are thrown by the reaction some audiences have had to the movie, celebrating “Conclave” as an addictive, eminently meme-able page-turner.

From Los Angeles Times

The Guardian's Anthony Cummins said the book was "truly wonderful – a tender, funny page-turner about the derangements of grief, and Rooney’s richest treatment yet of messy romantic entanglements".

From BBC