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  • Patriot Hearts Review

    After going on that Hamilton binge, I needed to read more about our Revolutionary Founders. Or as Abigail Adams said, “Remember the Ladies.”

    rachelbeerwoman

    June 1, 2024
    Reviews
    #barbarahambly, #historicalfiction, #patriothearts, #rachelreads&reviews
  • May Books

    Our Year of Maybe by Rachel Lynn Solomon Sophie and Nick have been best friends since they were toddlers, next door neighbors playing in the mud and blending the artistic talents as dancer and piano-player respectively to create “Terrible Twosome” performances. They know each other better than anyone, love each other and respect each other…

    rachelbeerwoman

    May 31, 2024
    Book Suggestions
    #acrosssomanyseas, #fredaceves, #historicalfiction, #middlegrade, #ouryearofmaybe, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachellynnsolomon, #rachelreads&reviews, #ruthbehar, #simon&schuster, #thenewdavidespinoza, #wecan’tkeepmeetinglikethis, #YA
  • Waterfire Saga: Sea Spell Review

    The grand final book in the Waterfire Saga has the merls facing up to their biggest challenges yet-Overthrowing Vallerio and his accomplices and destroying Abbedon and Orfeo. It’s a thrilling book with some surprise conclusions that I hadn’t seen coming and filled with action that kept me at the edge of my seat. But there…

    rachelbeerwoman

    May 27, 2024
    Reviews
    #disneyhyperion, #fantasy, #jenniferdonnelly, #mermaids, #rachelreads&reviews, #seaspell, #urbanfantasy, #waterfiresaga, #YA
  • Waterfire Saga: Dark Tide Review

    Donnelly gets right into the action with a heist! I love heists. Sera has grown in her confidence and badassery, formulating and succeeding in divesting the throne’s treasurey. Just in time too because they’ll need that gold to convince the goblin tribe to join their covert Blackfin army when they fight Sera’s traitorous uncle. But…

    rachelbeerwoman

    May 26, 2024
    Reviews
    #darktide, #disneyhyperion, #fantasy, #jenniferdonnelly, #mermaids, #rachelreads&reviews, #urbanfantasy, #waterfiresaga, #YA
  • Waterfire Saga: Rogue Wave Review

    Since the fall of Cerula and finding out she is part of a greater prophacy, Serfina is left to pick up the pieces of her life and figure out where her talisman is before Abbadon is released. Meanwhile, her best friend, Neela had returned to her kingdom of Mitali to warn her family of the…

    rachelbeerwoman

    May 25, 2024
    Reviews
    #disneyhyperion, #fantasy, #jenniferdonnelly, #mermaids, #rachelreads&reviews, #roguewave, #urbanfantasy, #waterfiresaga, #YA
  • Waterfire Saga: Deep Blue Review

    In the darkest deep, there be monsters and despite centuries of protection and magical spells, the circumstances have converged to allow Abbadon break free, and the ancestors of the original Six Who Ruled to rise.

    rachelbeerwoman

    May 24, 2024
    Reviews
    #deepblue, #disneyhyperion, #fantasy, #jenniferdonnelly, #mermaids, #rachelreads&reviews, #urbanfantasy, #waterfiresaga, #YA
  • Book of the Month: Little Women

    Little Women is close to a global phenomena. From Japan to Ecuador to the U.S. where the author originates, people around the world know about the March sisters and their highs and lows as they grow up in the 1860s. Except my friend who somehow lived under a rock. She never seen any of the…

    rachelbeerwoman

    May 23, 2024
    Book/Author Highlight
    #classics, #littlewomen, #louisamayalcott, #rachelreads&reviews
  • Ian Flynn Interview

    Ian Flynn is the writer of many beloved comic boo properties but may be best known for Sonic the Hedgehog. He graciously took the time to answer my questions about Sonic, his writing journey and new works coming out. Enjoy! 1. Who were/are your biggest comic influences?  A few that immediately spring to mind are…

    rachelbeerwoman

    May 14, 2024
    Interview
    #archiecomics, #comics, #drogune, #ianflynn, #rachelreads&reviews, #sonicthehedgehog, #theninelivesofklawmcgee
  • This Book Won’t Burn Review

    All Noor Khan wanted to do was to get through the last three months of her senior year undetected. After all, her mother moving them to small-town Braybarry after their father abandoned them doesn’t mean she has to make friends. She can blend in, graduate and go back to Chicago to regain her normal life.…

    rachelbeerwoman

    May 12, 2024
    Reviews
    #anticensorship, #bookbanning, #littlebrownandcompany, #rachelreads&reviews, #samiraahmed, #thisbookwon’tburn, #YA
  • My Dear Hamilton Review

    As anyone who got on the Hamilton fever train a decade knows that without Eliza Schuyler, her husband’s sory would never have been known. Literally, because she spent the last decades of her life com[iling his millions of correspondence and batting away the obstacles of his enemies who wanted him to be forgotten and his…

    rachelbeerwoman

    May 5, 2024
    Reviews
    #anovelofelizaschuyler, #harpercollins, #historicalfiction, #laurakamoie, #mydearhamilton, #rachelreads&reviews, #stephaniedray, #williammorrow
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