"Home Boy" is a remarkably engaging novel that delights as it disturbs.

Idiomatic Spanish phrases occur comfortably throughout this engaging first novel.

Experience creepy, crawly, inhospitable Amazon, the setting for this engaging novel.

"Living spaces and work areas should read just like an engaging novel," she said.

A New York City police official takes on an international drug cartel in an intelligent, engaging novel that is popular entertainment of a high order.

Instead, Connie occupies center stage during most of her mother's drama, a troublesome flaw in an otherwise engaging novel.

An engaging novel, based on real events, that may introduce young readers to a towering, if short, political figure.

Their romance makes for an "engaging first novel," Janet Kaye wrote here in 1996.

Mania.com gave the game similar praise, calling it "An engaging visual novel from a promising new group."

But the occasional overwriting ("I walk on the borrowings of the sun") does give pause, for it detracts from an otherwise fine and engaging novel.