Tag: #rachelreads&reviews
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Happy Anniversary
It’s official! It’s been one whole year since I started this blog. I’ve done 24 interviews, 415 posts and I’ve definately read a lot of books. So to celebrate let’s think about special books. I, for one, still remember the first book I got from the public library. Of course I can’t find the exact…
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Ranking Desperate Duchesses
And they’re not desperate as the title might make you think. We’re in the Georgian era people and unlike the stuffy ton, the parties are more decadent, the games, the rich more careless and everyone is out for their own pleasure. Yes, I say pleasure. All these dukes and duchesses are well-acquainted with the complications…
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Gillian Claire Swearingen Interview
Gillian Swearingen is a college student at the Columbus College of Art and Design, creator of Archie Art April (an Archie themed fanart challenge) and regular contributor to Archie Comics. She graciously took the time to talk about her life-long love for Archie, researching the depth of Archie history and her possible future in the…
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There’s Something About Sweetie Review
We bring things back to the Patal family about two years later with Ashish Patel suffering through the throes of the worst kind of hurt, heartbreak. Celia cheated on him and it seems his mojo is lost for good. He can’t flirt, can’t play basketball and he can’t even work up his Ash-smolder. Worse is…
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The Princess Diaries #4-6 Reread
It’s been a few month but I finally got my hands on the next three volumes in the series and wow, lots of things are happening as Mia enters the new year with her new boyfriend. Unfortunately, they’re spending the winter break away from each other and it gives Mia lots of time to anxiously…
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Fairest Review
Since I tackled Ella Enchanted, I decided to read another of Levine’s classic fairytale retellings. This time she tackles Snow White and she does it with plenty of twists and panache. I’ve said before, but I’ll repeat again I really admire her imagination when building her magic system and creating distinct languages, lore and other…
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Beautiful Darkness Review
Readers, we return to the small town of Gatlin, South Carolina where the Daree Keen is the teen hot spot, DAR runs the town and Lena Duchannes’ life has been irrecoverably changed when she brought Ethan back to life and inadvertedly caused her substitute father, Macon Ravenwood’s death. Ethan Wate understands the complicated grief Lena…
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From Twinkle, With Love Review
This epistoloary novel is made up of letters from Twinkle to her favorite female directors like Ava Duv, Mira Nair, Nora Ephron etc. (they’re more diary entries than letters really) that immediately bring readers up to speed to who Twinkle Mehra is. A junior in high school, Twinkle dreams of becoming a film-maker and despite…
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