page-turner
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It is newly arrived in paperback, and a perfect summer page-turner.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
She might profitably have removed the scaffolding of the research, avoided extraneous detail and produced more of a page-turner.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
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 ● Apr. 14, 2025
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 ● Sep. 23, 2024
Tim O’Reilly Publisher and Founder, O’Reilly and Associates Doctorow has created a rich and exciting vision of the future, and then wrote a page-turner of a story in it.
From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
Emily was followed by a slew of page-turners in similar, breathy vein: Bella, Harriet, Imogen and Prudence.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2025
Although Apekina read plenty of Russian literature when she was a child, she was also drawn to page-turners for children and young adults by Christopher Pike and R.L.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
Her true genre is uplifting, forward-thinking, character-driven science fiction: cozy page-turners attuned to diplomacy, tea drinking, alien minds and the urgent power of self-definition.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 20, 2023
With meticulously rendered action scenes, surprising plot twists, relatable, off-kilter characters and charming dialogue, his books are page-turners.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2021
I love page-turners, especially when they are as unusual as this novel.
From Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
