Tag: #realisticfiction

• Instructions for Dancing Review

  Evie Thomas doesn’t believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually. As…

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 30, 2025

  Reviews

  #comingofage, #contemporaryromance, #delcourtpress, #instructionsfordancing, #magicalrealism, #magicalrealisn, #nicolayoon, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #YA

• Speak Review

  The first ten lies they tell you in high school. “Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say.” From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted…

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 27, 2025

  Reviews

  #lauriehalseanderson, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #speak, #YA

• Three Girls in the City

  Horse girls may be more familiar with Jeanne Betancourt for her popular Pony Pals series, here she takes a different slice of life approach with, as the title says, Three Girls in the City. The premise is as follows: NYC, 2002. Three 13 year-old girls meet at a summer photo Carolyn, fresh from Wyoming, motherless…

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 26, 2025

  Book Suggestions, Book/Author Highlight

  #blackandwhite, #closeup, #comingofage, #exposed, #jeannebetancourt, #middlegrade, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #scholastic, #selfportrait, #threegirlsinthecity

• The Singular Life of Aria Patel Review

  Aria Patel likes stability, certainty, predictability. It’s why she’s so into science. It’s why she dumped her boyfriend before they went to different colleges because the odds were that something would go wrong, eventually. In a life that’s already so chaotic, why obsess over complicated relationships and shadowy unknowns when the scientific method gives you direction and a straight…

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 2, 2025

  Reviews

  #contemporaryromance, #hachettebookgroup, #littlebrownbooksforyoungreaders, #multiverse, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #samiraahmed, #sciencefiction, #thesingularlifeofariapatel, #YA

• Beacon Street Girls

  As I hit my quarter life crisis or point, whatever you want to call it, I decided that I should finally read the book series I have at this point always skimmed-the Beacon Street Girls! Just as the tagline says “They’re real, they’re fun, they’re just like you.” Each book presents a slice of life…

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 30, 2025

  Book/Author Highlight

  #aladdin, #anniebryant, #beaconstreetgirls, #greenalgaeandbubblegumwars, #middlegrade, #rachelreads&reviews, #readysethawaii, #realisticfiction, #simon&schuster, #sliceoflife, #sweetthirteen

• Roz Demir is Not the One Review

  Ros will do whatever it takes to get the guy. At least… she thinks she will. Sixteen-year-old Ros is a go-getter. When she wants something, she makes sure she gets it.  But a lingering rumor (and maybe some ambivalence about her half-Turkish heritage) has kept Ros from achieving the kind of reputation she deserves. So,…

  rachelbeerwoman

  January 30, 2025

  Reviews

  #comingofage, #contemporary, #holidayhouse, #leylabrittan, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #rosdemirisnottheone, #YA

• 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…

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 30, 2024

  Book Suggestions

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

• Book of the Month: The Great Alone

  Ah the great Alaskan wilderness, a place to reconnect to nature. Or in Hannah’s novel, a place where family demons come to tear them apart with no chance for help in the middle of a blizzard. Aka a nightmare in my thinking.

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 23, 2024

  Book/Author Highlight

  #alaska, #anovel, #drama, #familycrisis, #historicalfiction, #kristinhannah, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #thegreatalone

• Book of the Month: Northanger Abbey

  So we didn’t quite finish the gothic satire within the spooky season month but we got there!

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 8, 2024

  Book/Author Highlight

  #fiction, #gothicsatire, #janeausten, #northangerabbey, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction

• Aug Books

  She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs by Sara Smarsh Who doesn’t love Dolly Parton? I mean, she can sing, has fabulous costumes, has an amusement park and still gives back to her roots. So it’s no surprise that Dolly has a few books written in her honor.…

  rachelbeerwoman

  August 31, 2024

  Book Suggestions

  #animalbooks, #autobiography, #dollyparton, #jennifers.holland, #musicbooks, #nonfiction, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #reneewatson, #scribner, #shecomebyitnatural, #simon&schuster, #unlikelyanimalfriendshipsdogs, #workmanpublishing, #YA