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Think of England Review

England, 1904. Two years ago, Captain Archie Curtis lost his friends, fingers, and future to a terrible military accident. Alone, purposeless and angry, Curtis is determined to discover if he and his comrades were the victims of fate, or of sabotage. Curtis’s search takes him to an isolated, ultra-modern country house, where he meets and…

rachelbeerwoman

August 5, 2025

Reviews

#edwardian, #englandworld, #historicalfiction, #historicalromance, #kjcharles, #mlm, #queerfiction, #thinkofengland
Neurotic Hitwoman #5-6

Lynn’s Neurotic Hitwoman series is pulling all cylinders when it comes to making Maggie insane. If she didn’t have the crazy gene from her mother, she might end up in the nuthouse thanks to her non-clinical insane, but still dysfunctional family. Whom she now has to live with since her apartment blew up. Yikes!

rachelbeerwoman

August 3, 2025

Book Suggestions, Book/Author Highlight

#comedy adventure, #comedymystery, #confessionsofaslightlyneurotichitwoman, #jblynn, #rachelreads&reviews, #thehitwomanandtheneuroticwitness, #thehitwomanhuntsaghost
Author Highlight: Dahlia Adler

I read Adler’s Going Bicoastal a few years ago (go look into the tags for my thoughts on it) and since it was fine, and since she pops up on so many of my bookstagram stories, I decided to give the rest of her YA catalogue a try. Perfect since she’s just released another one…

rachelbeerwoman

August 2, 2025

Book Suggestions, Book/Author Highlight

#comeasyouare, #coolforthesummer, #dahliaadler, #homefieldadvantage, #queerfiction, #queerrep, #queerromance, #rachelreads&reviews, #st.martinspress, #st.martinspublishing, #wednesdaybooks, #YA
Girls Survive

I found this at my summer, and if you’re into historical fiction or action-packed disaster, then this is the series for you. Initially I thought this was a rip-off of the ultra-popular I Survived series by Lauren Tarish. They have a lot of the same premise of a kid surviving a famous or underrated event…

rachelbeerwoman

August 1, 2025

Book Suggestions, Book/Author Highlight

#aiylnncollins, #aliceontheisland, #andrealrogers, #anitrabutlerngugi, #audreyunderthebigtop, #capstonepublishing, #daisyandthedeadlyflu, #erinfalligant, #fayeandthedangerousjourney, #florfightsback, #fumikoandatokyotragedy, #girlssurvive, #historicalfiction, #Isurvived, #jessicagunderson, #jessikafleck, #joymichaelellison, #juliegilbert, #lowergrade, #maryandthetrailoftears, #mayumishimosepoe, #minandtheprotests, #mollyandthetwintowers, #ninaunderarrest, #oxtrachristina, #rachelreads&reviews, #sigafuskim, #susangriner, #taraandthetoweringwave
Catherine Hapka Interview

Catherine Hapka is one of the most prolific authors you may not know you know. Writing over 100 books as herself, and as a ghostwriter from the S.A.S.S. series to Nancy Drew, Star Power, HTTYD and more, she graciously took the time to answer my questions about her start, what makes a ghostwriter, and what’s…

rachelbeerwoman

July 31, 2025

Interview

#children’slit, #disneyhyperion, #emeryeverafter, #ghostwriter, #ghostwriting, #harpercollins, #IPs, #nancydrew, #rachelreads&reviews, #simon&schuster, #sweetvalley, #theacircuit, #thehardyboys, #thesaddleclub
Instructions for Dancing Review

Evie Thomas doesn’t believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually. As…

rachelbeerwoman

July 30, 2025

Reviews

#comingofage, #contemporaryromance, #delcourtpress, #instructionsfordancing, #magicalrealism, #magicalrealisn, #nicolayoon, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #YA
Ranking The Wedgeford Trials

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.…

rachelbeerwoman

July 29, 2025

Rankings

#asianmcs, #avonromance, #courtneymilan, #historicalfiction, #historicalromance, #rachelreads&reviews, #thedukewhodidn’t, #theearlwhoisn’t, #themarquiswhomusn’t, #thewedgefordtrials
Speak Review

The first ten lies they tell you in high school. “Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say.” From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted…

rachelbeerwoman

July 27, 2025

Reviews

#lauriehalseanderson, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #speak, #YA
Three Girls in the City

Horse girls may be more familiar with Jeanne Betancourt for her popular Pony Pals series, here she takes a different slice of life approach with, as the title says, Three Girls in the City. The premise is as follows: NYC, 2002. Three 13 year-old girls meet at a summer photo Carolyn, fresh from Wyoming, motherless…

rachelbeerwoman

July 26, 2025

Book Suggestions, Book/Author Highlight

#blackandwhite, #closeup, #comingofage, #exposed, #jeannebetancourt, #middlegrade, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #scholastic, #selfportrait, #threegirlsinthecity
Ranking Lively St. Lemons

Lively St. Lemons is a small village with intense political rivalries between the Whigs and Tories. But that’s a side note to the intricacies of the population therein. 1. Sweet Disorder: Phoebe Sparks is such a unique heroine in the historical romance genre. She’s plus-sized, hot-tempered, has intense maternal desire, and a dirty mind. She…

rachelbeerwoman

July 25, 2025

Rankings

#atasteofhoney, #falsepretenses, #historicalromance, #listentothemoon, #livelyst.lemons, #rachelreads&reviews, #roselerner, #sweetdisorder