Tag: #fantasy

• July Books

  Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn and Shonda Rhimes Although I finished the Brigderton series the other year, I am a completist so I had to read this companion book even though it is connected more to the tv series than the original novels. I’ll admit, since it said companion I thought it would be more…

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 31, 2023

  Book Suggestions

  #abramsbooks, #amidsummer’snightmare, #arielandthecurseoftheseawitches, #avonbooks, #behindeverygreatman, #bloomsbury, #disneyhyperion, #drawingthevote, #eventhisIgettoexperience, #fantasy, #firstladies, #historicnonfiction, #jadeadia, #juliaquinn, #kodykeplinger, #littlebrownbooksforyoungreaders, #margarettruman, #marlenewagmangeller, #memoir, #michelleobama, #nonfiction, #normanlear, #oncemorewithchutzpah, #penguinrandomhouse, #poppy, #queencharlotte, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #shondarhimes, #soulsmith, #thelightwecarry, #theregoestheneighborhood, #toddhasaklowy, #tommyjenkins, #wearethepower, #willwight, #YA

• Ranking Tales of the Frog Princess

  Yep, the same tale that Disney’s The Princess and the Frog was loosely based on. Mainly the kissing the frog and turning into a frog herself part, everything else veers off into a totally original and delightful fractured fairytale about Princess Emma (short for Emerald) and her adventures in honing her magic that include breaking…

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 30, 2023

  Rankings

  #bloomsbury, #dragon’sbreath, #e.d.baker, #fairytale, #fantasy, #noplaceformagic, #onceuponacurse, #rachelreads&reviews, #talesofthefrogprincess, #thefrogprincess, #thesalamanderspell

• Ever Review

  Olus is a lonely god, the youngest of the Akkran gods at seventeen compared to their thousands of millenium thus he is unusual fascinated by mortals or “soap bubbles” as his parents call them for their fleeting, ephermeral lives. On one such sojourn to the mortal realm, he travels to Hyete as a goatherd and…

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 23, 2023

  Reviews

  #ever, #fantasy, #gailcarsonlevine, #harpercollins, #rachelreads&reviews

• The School for Good and Evil: One True King Review

  The End of Ends have finally come. To keep things simple, the minor spoilers are under the cut but lets get to characterization and plot first. Since Tedros was revealed to have the final ring, and the wedding crashing went wrong, King Arthur’s ghost comes in with a deus ex machina to give his son…

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 11, 2023

  Reviews

  #fairytales, #fantasy, #harpercollins, #onetrueking, #rachelreads&reviews, #somanchainani, #thecamelotyears, #theschoolforgoodandevil

• The School for Good and Evil: A Crystal of Time Review

  Remember in the last review when I said that I thought I knew the villain. . . Yeah, I was so wrong. Once again, Chainani subverts all my expectations as the Snake and the Lion switch sides (or do they?) just as all the rest of the Evers are scrambling to fight back against a…

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 7, 2023

  Reviews

  #acrystaloftime, #fairytales, #fantasy, #harpercollins, #rachelreads&reviews, #somanchainani, #thecamelotyears, #theschoolforgoodandevil

• June Books

  Friday I’m in Love by Camryn Garret Mahira always wanted a sweet sixteen, was promised one but socioeconomic difficulties made the big event fall through. But inspired by her best friend’s Sweet 16 and her annoyance with the required “coming out” convention as a life changing announcement rather than a celebration-Mahira decides to make it…

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 30, 2023

  Book Suggestions

  #allwehaveleft, #blairthorburgh, #camryngarrett, #cradle, #edwidgedanticat, #fantasy, #fridayI'minlove, #futureperfect, #harpercollins, #historicalfiction, #hopeandotherpunchlines, #isabelallende, #jenlarsen, #jessikirby, #juliebuxbaum, #kellyyang, #lgtbq, #meganfrazer, #metoo, #ordinarygirls, #parachutes, #penguinrandomhouse, #poetry, #rachelreads&reviews, #secretsoftruthandbeauty, #simon&schuster, #stewartlewis, #taraaltebrando, #thebestnightofyourpatheticlife, #thegoodbraider, #thewindknowsmyname, #thingsweknowbyheart, #unsouled, #untwine, #wendymills, #willwright, #YA, #youhavesevenmessages

• The School for Good and Evil: Quests for Glory Review

  Ah yes, the Camelot Years. Agatha, Tedros and Sophie had thought that they completed their fairytale but a new evil is rising and everything that they thought was true is about to be undone.

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 29, 2023

  Reviews

  #fairytale, #fantasy, #harpercollins, #middlegrade, #questsforglory, #rachelreads&reviews, #somanchainani, #thecamelotyears, #theschoolforgoodandevil

• Ranking Kat the Time Traveler

  It’s the summer so I’m back on my summer reread. Which is a lot of kids book, mainly from the late 90s. Yes, they’re generic and cliche but they’re also very comfortable like an old. . . like an old book. Anyway, let’s get to it. The premise follows 10 year old Kat and her…

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 11, 2023

  Rankings

  #emmabradford, #fantasy, #historicalfiction, #katthetimetraveler, #katthetimetravelerandthemissingnotebooks, #katthetimetravelerandthesecretsofthenile, #kattthetimetravelerandtheemperor'sgift, #rachelreads&reviews, #stardustclassics

• Avalon High Review

  Since reading School for Good and Evil (and my roommate binging Merlin) I got interested in the story of Arthur, Camelot and all that jazz. I don’t know why it never interested me before but it’s actually really cool! I mean the big prophecy, shady relatives and a sizzling love triangle.  So I headed right…

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 1, 2023

  Reviews

  #arthurianlegend, #avalonhigh, #fantasy, #harpercollins, #harperteen, #megcabot

• Ranking The Chronicles of Prydian

  No, not the Disney movie, the Disney movie butchered the books if that’s what you’re thinking of when it comes to The Black Cauldron. But you wouldn’t be reading this if you were into the Disney movie, would you? I’ve noticed I have made my rankings longer than necessary by describing the plot which I…

  rachelbeerwoman

  May 19, 2023

  Rankings

  #fantasy, #lloydalexander, #middlegrade, #rachelreads&reviews, #tarenthewanderer, #theblackcauldron, #thebookofthree, #thecastleofllyr, #thechroniclesofprydian, #thehighking