RaveThe Washington PostMoriarty seems to delight in conjuring up the fallout from this gray-haired agent of chaos while also exerting complete authority over her audience. Her pattern is to present readers with a puzzle or two, which they will piece together, chapter by chapter, only to have the whole thing swept off the table with one solid twist ... In the end, the puzzle — will the predictions come true or won’t they? — becomes less interesting than the myriad ways people react when confronted with their ephemerality ... Her conclusions aren’t obvious, and they don’t necessarily give readers what they want, but they do induce a sense of sanguinity — an exhale of relief that the world makes sense. Or Moriarty’s world, anyway.
Kristin Hannah
RaveThe Washington PostReading Hannah’s books may be a masochistic pastime, but it’s also a hugely popular one ... Is there a single line — \'Not my Leni\' — that will get the waterworks going years after reading it? I would love to tell you, but my screen is getting inexplicably blurry.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
RaveThe Washington PostThere’s an impeccable sense of balance in Taylor Jenkins Reid’s Malibu Rising, a natural order in which every action meets its equal and opposite reaction ... Part of the fun of Reid’s recent novels is the way she reveals the machinery of celebrity life ... Reid’s sense of pacing is sublime as she introduces and dispenses with a revolving door of characters to approximate the chaos of a rager where sloshed A-listers couple up in the closets and waiters pass trays of cocaine.
