Furious Hours is a true story, and an impressively well-researched one at that, but it reads like a novel, a masterpiece of Southern literature that takes cues from the canon but carves out its own space. Within that space, Cep tells the story of an original series of crimes, the ones that followed, and the mesmerized crowd (featuring a certain American literary figure) that watched it all unfold.

Wall has created some of the most believable, best-drawn characters I have ever read about. Their backgrounds may be disparate, but they come together--and stick together--because of love, ideology, and family.

A heartwarming story of interspecies friendship that drives home the importance of conserving our wild spaces and non-human neighbors.

DNF p. 85

Style isn’t working for me right now. I’m enjoying bits of this but there are so many characters and so much satire that’s going right over my head...every time I pick it up I’ve completely forgotten everything from the previous chapters. Putting this one on indefinite hold.

Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have been on the run from their painful past for five years, convincing themselves that a cross-country school bus adventure will allow them to escape grief altogether. But when Coyote gets word that a keepsake from her childhood is at risk of being lost forever, she's spurred into tracking a new course--one that leads home. With soulful, expressive prose and a cast of charming characters, The Remarkable Journey of Coyote Sunrise shows that while, yes, there is so much sadness in the world, there is also so much love, so much compassion, and ultimately, so much good.

Jenny Valentine’s prose is gorgeous and vivid, but on the whole I found this story confusing and abrupt. I loved the opening few chapters, but beyond that I wished that the short parts were longer and the long parts were shorter.