Rachel Reads & Reviews

Dahlia Adler Interview

Dahlia Adler is the author, editor, anathologist among other hats for The Radleigh University trilogy, Cool for the Summer, His Hideous Heart anathology, Going Bicoastal and other YA books specializing in queer, Jewish representation. She graciously took the time before Hannakuh to answer my questions about representation, behind the scenes process to anathologies and what’s…

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December 24, 2024

Interview

#comeasyouare, #coolforthesummer, #dahliaadler, #girlsinsports, #goingbicoastal, #hishideousheart, #homefieldadvantage, #jewishrep, #queerrep, #rachelreads&reviews, #underthelights, #YA

Asgardians: Thor Review

As Thor attempts to traverse a river, he is forced to prove to a grouchy, mysterious old man that he is truly the one and only, mighty Thor!

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December 23, 2024

Reviews

#asgardians, #firstsecondbooks, #georgeo'connor, #graphicnovel, #norsemythology, #rachelreads&reviews, #thor

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…

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December 21, 2024

Rankings

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

Star Power

As part of my nostalgia year, I decided to finally look at a series that keeps popping up on Goodreads suggestions when I filter Hollywood, celebrity etc. It was for lower schoolers in the vein of Hannah Montana and such. After all these years of reading the summaries I had to find out what they…

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December 19, 2024

Book Suggestions

#cathyhapka, #celebrity, #hollywood, #lowergrade, #rachelreads&reviews, #starpower

Book of the Month: Gone with the Wind

Ah yes, the book that has lived for almost a hundred years and it makes one feel like they’ve lived through a hundred years. Yes, I’m talking about Margaret Mitchell’s decade-spanning work, Gone with the Wind, covering before, during and after the Civil War from the POV of one stubborn hellion, Scarlet O’Hara. There’s not…

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December 18, 2024

Book/Author Highlight

#antebellumsouth, #civilwarsouth, #classics, #gonewiththewind, #historicalfiction, #margaretmitchell, #rachelreads&reviews

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…

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December 15, 2024

Rankings

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

America’s First Daughter Review

After thoroughly enjoying Dray and Kamoie’s book on the Hamiltos, I had to go read their first book together about Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy’ Jefferson and how she shaped the founding father we know today. It is always said that behind every great man, there was a great woman and this is especially prominant…

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December 1, 2024

Book/Author Highlight, Reviews

#america’sfirstdaughter, #hachettebookgroup, #historicalfiction, #laurakamoie, #rachelreads&reviews, #revolutionarywar, #stephaniedray, #thefoundingfathers, #williammorrow, #williammorrowbooks

Nov Books

Private Label by Kelly Yang A perfect title for the private things that Serene and Lian hide from their peers and their family in this moving, coming of age romance. Serene is the daughter of single mom and major fashion designer, Lily Lee. Her real name is Liu but her mother’s Board of Trustees thought…

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November 30, 2024

Book Suggestions

#askmymoodringhowIfeel, #avi, #dianalopez, #harpercollins, #historicalfiction, #katherineteaganbooks, #kellyyang, #littlebrownbooksforyoungreaders, #middlegrade, #privatelabel, #realisticfiction, #trueconfessionsofcharlottedoyle, #YA

Book of the Month: Crocodile on the Sandbank

A bit of The Mummy, a bit of a stand-alone Agatha Christie, the adventures of Amelia Peabody feature a plain, spinster along the lines of Jane Eyre. Albeit a more sprightly Jane Eyre what with the shooting, escavating and mummy-hunting. Let me back up a bit with the death of Amelia’s father, she decides to…

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November 29, 2024

Book/Author Highlight

#ameliapeabodymystery, #crocodileonthesandbank, #egypt, #elizabethpeters, #hachettebookgroup, #historicalfiction, #mystery, #rachelreads&reviews

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.…

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November 25, 2024

Rankings

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