Category: Rankings

• Ranking Girl Meets Duke

  However, with all the deals, games and wagers, it might be better called Casino Ducal. Alas, there’s no casinos so the title would not be accurate. What the series includes is plenty of surprising first impressions, steamy liasons and will-they-won’t-they between a quartet of misfit girls and the mad, bad, dangerous to know dukes who…

  rachelbeerwoman

  April 4, 2023

  Rankings

  #avonbooks, #historicalromance, #rachelreads&reviews, #regencyromance, #tessadare, #theduchessdeal, #thegovernessgame, #thewallflowerwager

• Ranking xoxo, Betty and Veronica

  Since reading it last month, I must say this brief trilogy still holds up. It has all the fun of the Archie comic without the 20 page limit (that’s usually how long it is for an extra special story compared to the usual 5 pages), including friendship moments, cameos of other Riverdale teens and just…

  rachelbeerwoman

  April 3, 2023

  Rankings

  #archiecomics, #ineachother'sshoes, #livingthedream, #middlegrade, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #we'rewiththeband, #xoxobettyandveronica

• Ranking The Union of the Rakes

  This regency romance has a special 80s twist as each novel takes homage from big screen classics like Flashdance, The Breakfast Club, and so on. I’ll confess I did not realize this until I read the Acknowledgement pages, and since the only 80s movies I’ve seen were Flashdance, and The Breakfast Club, I cannot tell…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 22, 2023

  Rankings

  #evaleigh, #historicalromance, #myfakerake, #rachelreads&reviews, #regencyromance, #theunionoftherakes, #waitingforascotlikeyou, #wouldIlietoaduke

• Ranking Girls from Many Lands

  Now the other series American Girl spun off was the Girls from Many lands series for older middle schoolers tackling historical periods from eight different lands and more intense in some senses. What I mean is that half of the series tackles serious topics like court intrigue, colonization and genocide. The other half is more…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 5, 2023

  Rankings

  #alevlytlecroutier, #americangirl, #anniedalton, #ashesinthepathway, #chitrabanerjeedivakaruni, #gatesofgold, #girlsfrommanylands, #historicalfiction, #janekurtz, #kirkpatrickhill, #laurenceyep, #marycasanova, #middlegrade, #rachelreads&reviews, #siobhánparkinson, #takingwing, #theblacktulip, #thecelticknot, #thelastflower, #underthehyena'sfoot, #victorysong

• Ranking History Mystery

  Everyone knows American Girl, but in a brief space in the early 2000s, they branched out to two other series. The History Mysteries series is aimed more for older lower-schoolers and middle schoolers with slightly darker themes like racism, discrimination, and murder. Of course, mysteries are at their core too. These were my favorites as…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 4, 2023

  Rankings

  #alisonhart, #americangirl, #barbarasteiner, #betrayalatcrosscreek, #circleoffire, #dangeratthewildwestshow, #eleanorae.tate, #elizabethmcdavidjones, #enemyinthefort, #evelyncoleman, #gangstersatthegrandatlantic, #ghostlightongraveyardshoal, #historicalfiction, #historymystery, #hollyhughes, #hoofbeatsofdanger, #katherineayers, #kathleenernst, #kathrynreiss, #meganmcdonald, #mysteryatchilkootpass, #mysteryofthedarktower, #mysteryonskullisland, #nightflyers, #riddleoftheprariebride, #sarahmastersbuckley, #secretson26thstreet, #shadowsintheglasshouse, #theministrel'smelody, #thesmuggler'streasure, #thestrangecaseofbabyh, #troubleatfortlapointe, #undercoppshill, #voicesatwhispersbend, #watcherinpineywoods, #whistlerinthedark

• Ranking Desperate Duchesses

  And they’re not desperate as the title might make you think. We’re in the Georgian era people and unlike the stuffy ton, the parties are more decadent, the games, the rich more careless and everyone is out for their own pleasure. Yes, I say pleasure. All these dukes and duchesses are well-acquainted with the complications…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 26, 2023

  Rankings

  ##whenthedukereturns, #adukeofherown, #anaffairbeforechristmas, #avonbooks, #desperateduchesses, #duchessbynight, #eloisajames, #georgianromance, #historicalromance, #rachelreads&reviews, #thisduchessofmine

• Ranking Main Street

  1. The Secret Book Club: I think I first read the Main Street series around the same time as The Mother-Daughter Book Club and thus I was very interested in book clubs. It sounded like so much fun to discuss major themes and plots with your friends as you read the same book together. Martin…

  rachelbeerwoman

  January 13, 2023

  Rankings

  #annm.martin, #annmmartin, #bestfriends, #comingapart, #keepingsecrets, #mainstreet, #needleandthread, #rachelreads&reviews, #scholastic, #septembersurprises, #specialdelivery, #stayingtogether, #thesecretbookclub, #tistheseason, #welcometocamdenfalls

• Ranking The Popularity Papers

  The Rocky Road Trip of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang: I love road trip stories so this one gets the top spot as Lydia and Julie get to spend the summer across the American West and East Coast encountering giant dinosaurs, mutant blueberries, and earthquakes. But more dangerous than the rattlesnake (possibly flat tire) they…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 29, 2022

  Rankings

  #amyignatow, #loveandotherfiascoswithlydiagoldblattandjuliegrahamchang, #middlegrade, #rachelreads&reviews, #simon&schuster, #theawesomelyawfulmelodiesoflydiagoldblattandjuliegrahamchang, #thelessthanhiddensecretsandfinalrevelationsoflydiagoldblattandjuliegrahamchang, #thelongdistancedispatchbetweenlydiagoldblattandjuliegrahamchang, #thepopularitypapers, #therockyroadtripoflydiagoldblattandjuliegrahamchang, #wordsof(questionable)wisdomfromlydiagoldblattandjuliegrahamchang

• Ranking Wildflowers

  Jade: Jade got number one mainly because I enjoy emotional turmoil and Jade has plenty of emotional turmoil as the pawn in her parent’s vicious divorce where both are utterly focused on climbing the corporate ladders that they neglect her. So she turns to internet chat rooms which leads to a traumatic kidnapping that is…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 28, 2022

  Rankings

  #cat, #intothegarden, #jade, #misty, #pocketbooks, #rachelreads&reviews, #star, #vcandrews, #YA

• Ranking Cheer!

  1. Home for the Holidays: This got the number one spot because it brings the biggest plot twist and potential status quo changer in the form of Katie and Maddy bonding in New York. There’s also the possibility that she’ll move to NY permenantly to live with her father and boring Beth so Maddy really…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 28, 2022

  Rankings

  #bevenvsevanandotherhighschoolrivalries, #cheer!, #confessionsofawannabecheerleader, #homefortheholidays, #middlegrade, #pyramidofone, #rachelreads&reviews, #revengeofthetitan, #simon&schuster, #zoeevans