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A starred review is a book review marked with a star to denote a book of distinction or particularly high quality. [1] [2] A starred review can help to increase media coverage, bookstore placement and sales of a book. [3] [4] [5]
Kirkus Reviews is an American book review magazine founded in 1933 by Virginia Kirkus. [1] The magazine's publisher, Kirkus Media , is headquartered in New York City . [ 2 ] Kirkus Reviews confers the annual Kirkus Prize to authors of fiction , nonfiction , and young readers' literature .
The Kirkus Prize is an American literary award conferred by the book review magazine Kirkus Reviews. Established in 2014, the Kirkus Prize bestows US$ 150,000 annually. Three authors are awarded US$ 50,000 each, divided into three categories: Fiction , Nonfiction , and Young Readers' Literature . [ 1 ]
The New York Times named Chain-Gang All-Stars one of the top ten books of 2023. [10] Kirkus Reviews [4] and Shelf Awareness [11] also included it on their list of the year's best books. Booklist included it on their list of the top ten debut novels of the year. [12]
The novel received starred reviews from School Library Journal, Booklist, and Kirkus Reviews. Kirkus Reviews praised the book as "rich in detail of both the essential normalcy and the difficulties of a young person with cerebral palsy", and "descriptions of both Melody's challenges—'Going to the bathroom at school just plain sucks'—and the ...
Kirkus Reviews stated it might be self-indulgence and written like a personal experience. [4] San Francisco Examiner found the book "exhilarating". [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Newsweek ridiculed it stating to read the game's manual and changing the money for the book into quarters to play Breakout instead.
[14] Kirkus called the book "[a]esthetically arresting and a vital contribution to America’s conversation about itself." [3] NPR's Annalisa Quinn provided a mixed review, stating, "Zhang's style can be densely, airlessly lovely. Self-conscious lyricism fills the page like all that California dust, sometimes making it hard to breathe."
Moonflower Murders earned a "Rave" rating from the book review aggregator Book Marks based on six independent reviews. [6] The six reviews include the four highlighted above, plus a review in The Wall Street Journal by Tom Nolan and a review by Beth Kanell in the New York Journal of Books. Extracts from the six reviews are posted, with links to ...