Category: Reviews

• Beth is Dead Review

  When Beth March is found dead in the woods on New Year’s Day, her sisters vow to uncover her murderer. Suspects abound. There’s the neighbor who has feelings for not one but two of the girls. Meg’s manipulative best friend. Amy’s flirtatious mentor. And Beth’s lionhearted first love. But it doesn’t take the surviving sisters…

  rachelbeerwoman

  April 11, 2026

  Reviews

  ##mysterythriller, #homage, #katiebernet, #littlewomen, #mystery, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #sarahbarleybooks, #simon&schuster, #simon&schusterbooksforyoungreaders, #YA

• Silverhawks: Wings of War Review

  A NEW STORY ARC BEGINS WITH THE GALAXY’S GREATEST HEIST!Rebuilding a criminal empire doesn’t come cheap, and Mon*Star needs a big score to keep the credits flowing – the bigger, the better. There’s only one target that really fits the bill: the treasury planet, Dolar!If the resurgent mobster can pull it off, he’ll have enough…

  rachelbeerwoman

  April 5, 2026

  Reviews

  #dynamitecomics, #edbrisson, #georgekambadais, #rachelreads&reviews, #scifi, #silverhawks, #silverhawks(2025), #spacecops, #spacewestern

• Silverhawks: Partly Metal, Partly Real Review

  Recruited from every corner of known space by the Federal Interplanetary Force, the SilverHawks were engineered to be the first line of defense against Limbo’s ruthless agents of chaos. In the nearby galaxy of Limbo, the deadly mob boss Mon*Star has escaped from his confinement on Penal Planet 10 — and he’s looking to take…

  rachelbeerwoman

  April 4, 2026

  Reviews

  #dynamitecomics, #edbrisson, #georgekambadis, #rachelreads&reviews, #scifi, #silverhawks, #silverhawks(2025), #spacecops, #spacewestern

• Thundercats: New Age Review

  Technically volume five hasn’t been released yet, so I’m giving my own title to #21-25, and a lot of lore has been dropped. See description for #21. In this issue: Lion-O returns to the Cats’ Lair to reclaim his leadership over the ThunderCats! Visibly older and wiser, the now-seasoned ruler carries himself with a new…

  rachelbeerwoman

  April 3, 2026

  Reviews

  #declanshalvey, #drewmoss, #dynamitecomics, #thundercats (2024), #thundercats(2024), #thundercats:lost, #volumefive

• Cerulean Chronicles Review

  Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 24, 2026

  Reviews

  #ceruleanchronicles, #fantasy, #macmillan, #magicalrealism, #queerfiction, #queerrep, #queerromance, #rachelreads&reviews, #somewherebeyondthesea, #thehouseintheceruleansea, #tjklune, #torbooks

• When Dreams Descend Review

  In a city covered in ice and ruin, a group of magicians face off in a daring game of magical feats to find the next headliner of the Conquering Circus, only to find themselves under the threat of an unseen danger striking behind the scenes. As each act becomes more and more risky and the…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 20, 2026

  Reviews

  #fantasy, #homage, #janellaangeles, #kingdomofcards, #rachelreads&reviews, #retellings, #wednesdaybooks, #wheredreamsdescend, #YA

• Freddie and Stella Got Hot Review

  Freddie and Stella are on a mission: take down their former best friend turned queen bee Levi Preston by depriving her of the one thing she wants more than anything: The Beaumont-Gardiner Award. Only the coolest, smartest, and―let’s face it―hottest girls win. . . so Freddie and Stella are going to have to get a…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 19, 2026

  Reviews

  #contemporary, #feiwel&friends, #freddieandstellagothot, #lgtbq, #maggiehorne, #rachelreads&reviews, #YA

• Meet the Newmans Review

  For two decades, Del and Dinah Newman and their sons, Guy and Shep, have ruled television as America’s Favorite Family. Millions of viewers tune in every week to watch them play flawless, black-and-white versions of themselves. But now it’s 1964, and the Newmans’ idealized apple-pie perfection suddenly feels woefully out of touch. Ratings are in…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 25, 2026

  Reviews

  #1960s, #behindthesceneshollywood, #culturalrevolution, #feminism, #flatironbooks, #jenniferniven, #meetthenewmans, #rachelreads&reviews, #socialrevolution

• Lola At Last Review

  Lola Barnes’s summer is not off to the best start. Fresh off a scandal that tanked her social status, Lola has somehow managed to also alienate her twin sister, lose the friends she thought she had, and put a . . . fiery end to the first party of the summer. (The boat was barely on fire,…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 23, 2026

  Reviews

  #contemporaryfiction, #harpercollins, #homage, #j.c.peterson, #lolaatlast, #lydiabennet, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #retelling, #YA

• Being Mary Bennet Review

  It is a truth universally acknowledged that every bookworm secretly wishes to be Lizzie Bennet. A less acknowledged truth is that Mary Bennet might be a better fit. For seventeen-year-old Marnie Barnes, who’s convinced she is the long-suffering protagonist of her life, this revelation comes at the end of a series of self-induced disasters that…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 22, 2026

  Reviews

  #beingmarybennet, #contemporaryfiction, #harpercollins, #homage, #j.c.peterson, #janeausten, #marybennet, #prideandprejudice, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #retelling, #YA