Category: Rankings
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Written by Olympic medalist, Dominique Moceanu and author, Alicia Thompson, this quartet dives into the grit and determination of competitive gymnastics combined with the coming of age and friendship of the Texas Twisters teammates.
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With a tagline of “Making a Scene on Reality TV,” you know this little quartet is going to have some cool adventures. But it’s not the reality tv, you’re thinking of. Cassidy’s parents are hosts of a popular travel show, and she’s been travelling the world since she was a five year old. A little…
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I was determined this year to find one indigenous historical romance written by an indigenous author from this century, and I found one. One! It’s a shame that it was less than stellar. It may be due to self-publishing so Kay didn’t have multiple eyes looking through the final product, and she’s relying on tropes…
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Courtney Milan does it again! I wrote in my ranking for Milan’s Turner trilogy that Milan is a rare romance author who nixes the miscommunication trope that plague so many couples. Rather she subverts the status quo and has the couple communicate like mature adults while maintaining the suspense of internal/external forces threatening their coupledom.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
Rachel Reads & Reviews 