Category: Rankings

• Ranking Feminine Pursuits

  To continue the journey of historical romances with non-traditional leads, Waite’s Feminine Pursuits trilogy celebrates women loving women, and the their fight for rights and respect in their occupations. It’s also interesting as these can be read as stand-alones rather than a trilogy. Sure, characters pop up from other books but it is not very…

  rachelbeerwoman

  May 31, 2025

  Rankings

  #avonromance, #femininepursuits, #historicalromance, #oliviawaite, #queerromance, #rachelreads&reviews, #regencyromance, #thecareandfeedingofwaspishwidows, #thehellion’swaltz, #thelady’sguidetocelestialmechanics

• Ranking Seducing the Sedgwicks

  I know, it’s been so long since I’ve done a ranking, but I’m glad to start the first ranking of 2025 with Cat Sebastian’s sweet and steamy Sedgwick trilogy. Lots of alliteration there. Much like Herrera’s Las Leonas trilogy, it dives into the forgotten bits of history aka gay people have always existed and managed…

  rachelbeerwoman

  May 15, 2025

  Rankings

  #agentlemanneverkeepsscore, #avonromance, #catsebastian, #historicalfiction, #historicalromance, #ittakestwototumble, #mlm, #queerrep, #rachelreads&reviews, #regencyromance, #romance, #seducingthesedgwicks, #tworoguesmakearight

• Ranking The Gilded Age Heiresses

  The last romance series of the year brings the former colonies to its English roots with the Crenshaw family touring England for a vaction. Unbeknowst to the girls, the true intention behind the trip is for their social climbing parents to marry them off to entitled gentlemen. Well, August and Violet aren’t going down without…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 21, 2024

  Rankings

  #avonromance, #gildedageromance, #harperst.george, #historicalromance, #rachelreads&reviews, #thedevilandtheheiress, #theduchesstakesahusband, #thegildedageheiresses, #theheiressgetsaduke, #theladytemptsanheir

• Ranking Hundred Oaks

  After vicariously reading the Pretty Tough series, I was in the mood for more girls in sports narratives. Again, of which there are surprisingly few series dedicated to the premise. The only other one I remembered was this. I wanted to read it when it was first coming out but I never got round to…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 15, 2024

  Rankings

  #breatheanniebreathe, #catchingjordan, #comingupforair, #contemporayromance, #defendingtaylor, #hundredoaks, #jessesgirl, #mirandakenneally, #rachelreads&reviews, #racingsavannah, #sourcebooks, #sourcebooksfire, #sports, #stealingparker, #thingsIcan’tforget

• Ranking The Secrets of Charlotte Street

  This was really, really hard. In fact, I almost considered not ranking the series because each of them were so well-written that the minor flaws made it impossible to rank one above the other because they were insurmountable compared to what Peckham did right in subverting tropes and creating three-dimensional characters of complexities and layers.…

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 25, 2024

  Rankings

  #1700s, #historicalromance, #rachelreads&reviews, #romance, #scarlettpeckham, #thedukeIruined, #theearlItempted, #theeroticsofcharlottestreet, #thelordIleft, #thesecretsofcharlottestreet

• Ranking Pretty Tough

  I’m not a sports person as any of my friends would attest. Not watching and not doing. I’m not athletic and even if I were, my 4 foot nothing size would make me an easy tackle or block or whatever the term is. But sometimes I get struck by a vicarious need to read a…

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 18, 2024

  Rankings

  #acolddayunderthesun, #fifteenlove, #headgames, #makingwaves, #playingwittheboys, #prettytough, #rachelreads&reviews, #razorbill, #sarabiren, #sports, #stealingbases, #YA

• Ranking Fifth Avenue Rebels

  Shupe’s latest Gilded Age romance delivers on opulence, scandals and simmering romance so let’s get to it.

  rachelbeerwoman

  September 22, 2024

  Rankings

  #avonbooks, #fifthavenuerebels, #gildedageromance, #historicalfiction, #historicalromance, #joannashupe, #rachelreads&reviews, #thebridegoesrogue, #thedukegetseven, #theheiresshunt, #theladygetslucky

• Warriors: The Broken Code

  After a long break where the library constantly had one or all the books loaned out, I finally got to reading the last complete arc of the series, The Broken Code. Of course, after a months long break, getting back into Warriors can get confusing but the character list reacquainted me with the clan heirarchies.…

  rachelbeerwoman

  April 25, 2024

  Book/Author Highlight, Rankings

  #alightinthemist, #animalbooks, #darknesswithin, #erinhunter, #loststars, #rachelreads&reviews, #thebrokencode, #theplaceofnostars, #thesilentthaw, #veilofshadows, #warriors

• Ranking Bad Boys & Wallflowers

  Emma, Olivia and Prudence are wallflowers and though they started their first season with high hopes, they’ve come to accept their position. Until it’s their fourth season and their finishing school’s annual reunion approaches. No one in their school has arrived at their fourth season and unmarried in a 100 years! They certainly don’t want…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 25, 2024

  Rankings

  #avonromance, #badboysandwallflowerstrilogy, #historicalromance, #mayarodale, #rachelreads&reviews, #regencyromance, #thewickedwallflower, #wallflowergonewild, #whatawallflowerwants

• Ranking Spindle Cove

  Disclaimer as this ranking doesn’t include the novellas or books 4-5 which my library doesn’t stock. Anyway, welcome to Spindle Cove where ladies of a certain persuasion as unmarried misses or spinsters who find freedom and security to be themseslves. But a passing rake with the intent to romance are never far away. I know…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 15, 2024

  Rankings

  #aladybymidnight, #anighttosurrender, #avonromance, #aweektobewicked, #historicalromance, #rachelreads&reviews, #regencyromance, #spindlecove, #tessadare