Examples of page-turner in a Sentence
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All of the Baztan novels are real page-turners, featuring an intelligent and emotionally intuitive female lead in Amaia.
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Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
The series seizes on the book’s obsession with aesthetics, reimagining the 1955 page-turner as a Künstlerroman and its murderous antihero as an artist whose medium happens to be crime.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
For those among us who feel the need to check foot- and endnotes, that makes for, literally, a real page-turner.
—Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 22 Feb. 2024
In this book, a fast-paced, kind of magical-realist page-turner, the act of migration is rendered as a door: The characters step from one nameless country in which militants are taking over through a door and end up in Greece.
—Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
This page-turner is more than a damning expose of a charismatic P.T. Barnum–like leader.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
On Sunday, the Wave delivered a plot twist worthy of a page-turner.
—Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
For perpetually curious types If the book lover in your life is on a constant quest for knowledge, this monthly subscription can be a nice change of pace from their latest page-turner.
—Angela Ledgerwood, wsj.com, 28 Oct. 2023
Read on for the five biggest revelations from the gripping page-turner.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Apr. 2024
The series seizes on the book’s obsession with aesthetics, reimagining the 1955 page-turner as a Künstlerroman and its murderous antihero as an artist whose medium happens to be crime.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 4 Apr. 2024
For those among us who feel the need to check foot- and endnotes, that makes for, literally, a real page-turner.
—Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 22 Feb. 2024
In this book, a fast-paced, kind of magical-realist page-turner, the act of migration is rendered as a door: The characters step from one nameless country in which militants are taking over through a door and end up in Greece.
—Vogue, 30 Dec. 2023
This page-turner is more than a damning expose of a charismatic P.T. Barnum–like leader.
—Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 19 Dec. 2023
On Sunday, the Wave delivered a plot twist worthy of a page-turner.
—Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Dec. 2023
For perpetually curious types If the book lover in your life is on a constant quest for knowledge, this monthly subscription can be a nice change of pace from their latest page-turner.
—Angela Ledgerwood, wsj.com, 28 Oct. 2023
Read on for the five biggest revelations from the gripping page-turner.
—Katcy Stephan, Variety, 24 Oct. 2023
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“Page-turner.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/page-turner. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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