Tag: #rachelreads&reviews

  • Sense and Sensibility: This one is a bit from bias because I liked the pictures best in the kids version I read before getting into the real version. Even so, I enjoyed how it focuses on family as much as romance. And having Elinor and Marianna as protagonists offer two heroines for readers to relate…

  • After reading the Black Widow duology, I started wondering. When writing tie in or spin offs or side adventure books involving popular characters like Marvel heroes or whatever, are the original young adult characters really necessary? I wrote in the Black Widow review that I had been expecting more insight to Natasha’s past and her…

  • Set in the backdrop of WWI, two loves stories intertwine as the couples face trauma, and bigotry with the help of the gods.

  • So I decided to reread the Stephanie Plum books since I think I gotten into a funk where I just skim and skip to the funny parts I remembered. So this time I reread it and I paid attention.

  • Unlike my post on the Isle of the Lost, this one will be an actual review of the series overall. Unlike the Isle of the Lost series, this has some leeway in escaping continuity issues. They are not to set up movie plots or examine the main characters. This focuses on side characters that appear…

  • Okay, I’ll admit when I first heard of the Descendants movies involving Kristen Chenworth way back in 2014, I had made fun of it. Especially the unimagenative names given to the children of the characters. I mean Evie – Evil Queen, Jay- Jafar, it just seemed so lazy. But then I read the first Isle…

  • I was going to put all 4 titles but it looked clunky. Now here’s 4 books I read over April that were good but I didn’t feel like they warranted one big review each. Dangerous Play by Emma Kress Now this teaches me not to judge a book by its cover or title or summary.…

  • The Black Widow duology came out back in 2016 which I believe was the original timeline for the Black Widow movie premiere. But of course it got pushed back until 2019 so these books brought the hype very early and you can see some evidence of their movie inspiration in the pages. As one can…

  • Two couples jump on the chance to take over a cozy BnB in Vermont. The husbands, Peter and Rand Danner are brothers and are gung-ho about making it work. Peter’s wife, Kira sees it as a wonderful change after working in corporate laeyer in Florida. Alyssa just hopes it will be a quiet place for…

  • This is a fun kids book that acts as a triptych taking place over 20 years in titular Yawning Rabbit River. The first story tells the origins of how the rabbit thief, Sean raced the river goddess Violet to bring water back to the Valley and how his heroic actions immortalized him forever. As well…