Tag: #YA

• Catching Fire Review

  I’m back and so is Katniss, though she’s a lot worse off than I. Even though it’s been a few months since she ha sleft the Arena no one will let her forget the trauma she’s experienced. Starting with the Victory Tour which President Snow makes a surprise appearance to blackmail Katniss into submission. Her…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 9, 2023

  Reviews

  #catchingfire, #rachelreads&reviews, #scholastic, #suzannecollins, #thehungergamestrilogy, #YA

• Beautiful Chaos Review

  After the events of the summer, Ethan, Lena and all their loved ones are dealing with the consequences of their actions as this southern gothic turns to the End of Days. Garcia and Stohl jump right into the the dire state of Gatlin with plagues of locusts or lubbers as they are dubbed, heat burning…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 3, 2023

  Reviews

  #beautifulchaos, #fantasy, #hachettebookgroup, #kamigarcia, #margaretstohl, #rachelreads&reviews, #southerngothic, #thecasterchronicles, #YA

• Books for Women’s History Month

  It’s women’s history month again! And since last year I did a 8 part series of books one can read, I’m just relisting them here. You can search the tags by title or author to check out my thoughts and summaries on them. But basically one could choose to read a book a day for…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 1, 2023

  Book Suggestions

  #academics, #amazonsabolitionistsandactivists, #americasfirstladies, #anathologies, #anathologyofamazingwomen, #annmccallumstaats, #annshen, #badgirls, #beautyqueens, #becauseIwasagirl, #blackgirlsrock, #brazen, #bygonebadassbroads, #comics, #dangerousbooksforgirls, #deadfeminists, #doesmybodyoffendyou, #dynamicdames, #extraordinarymothersanddaughters, #femmemagnifique, #frontiergrit, #girlhood, #girlsquad, #girlswhogreen, #girlswhoruntheworld, #goodgirlsandwickedwitches, #goodnightstoriesforrebelgirls, #grandesdreamers, #graphicnovels, #imaginingourselves, #inpraisefordifficultwomen, #inthelineoffire, #janeagainsttheworld, #jasonporath, #kateschatz, #lawbreakingladies, #leagueofextraordinarilyfunnywomen, #lorettaross, #middlegrade, #modernherstory, #monstershewrote, #moxie, #nativewomenchangingtheirworlds, #noisemakers, #nonfiction, #notyourprincess, #ourstoriesourvoices, #powerinnumbers, #rachelreads&reviews, #renegadewomeninfilmandtelevision, #reproductivejustice, #sammaggs, #shechangedcomics, #sherepresents, #shutin, #thebookofgutsywomen, #thegirlwhorodeashark, #theradicalelement, #tyrannyofpetticoats, #unscripted, #unsungheroinesoftheholocaust, #watchusrise, #wearedisplaced, #women'shistorymonth, #womeninscience, #womenofthepinetreestate, #YA, #yesshecan, #youtoo, #zingtsjeng

• Feb Books

  Someone to Love by Melissa de la Cruz Almost a companion to Something in Between, readers may remember Royce’s much nicer younger sister Olivia “Liv” Blakely. Now it’s four years later and the sweet kid is dealing with a tumultuous personal demon. Bulimia and cutting. The former is her way of making sure she’ll always…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 28, 2023

  Book Suggestions

  #balzerandbray, #beckyalbertalli, #belles, #bellestrilogy, #cleopatra'sdaughter, #courtneysummers, #crownpublishing, #feiwel&friends, #goingdark, #hachettebookgroup, #harlequinpublishing, #harlequinteen, #harpercollins, #I'mthegirl, #instantkarma, #jencalonita, #littlebrownbooksforyoungreaders, #marissameyer, #melissadelacruz, #michellemoran, #oliviaabtahi, #penguinrandomhouse, #perfectlyparvin, #poppy, #putnam'ssons, #rachelreads&reviews, #simonvsthesomosapiensagenda, #someonetolove, #st.martinspublishing, #thegrassisalwaysgreener, #theupsideofunrequited, #unionsquareandco, #winterwhite, #YA

• More Thoughts on Tales from Shadowhunter Academy

  Cuz apparently I’m still not over it. Maybe it’s a bit nitpicky or maybe I’m biased because I enjoy Simon/Isabelle/Sizzy but I want another Tales from Shadowhunter Academy. And this time I want it to truly focus on Simon and Izzy.   What I mean is that while the anthology format was entertaining and showed many parts…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 20, 2023

  Book/Author Highlight

  #cassandraclare, #rachelreads&reviews, #simon&schuster, #talesfromshadowhunteracademy, #theshadowhunterchronicles, #YA

• 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…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 19, 2023

  Reviews

  #rachelreads&reviews, #sandhyamenon, #simon&schuster, #simonpulse, #there'ssomethingaboutsweetie, #YA

• 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…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 18, 2023

  Book Suggestions

  #harpercollins, #harperteen, #megcabot, #princessinpink, #princessintraining, #princessinwaiting, #rachelreads&reviews, #theprincessdiaries, #YA

• 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…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 12, 2023

  Reviews

  #beautifuldarkness, #kamigarcia, #margaretstohl, #rachelreads&reviews, #supernatural, #thecasterchronicles, #YA

• 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…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 10, 2023

  Reviews

  #contemporaryromance, #fromtwinklewithlove, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #sandhyamenon, #simon&schuster, #simonpulse, #YA

• Author Highligt: Maurene Goo

  Desi Lee is a straight A, type A, school president, Standford dreaming nerd. Basically she’s winning at everything in life with waaay too many extracurriculars and an almost encyclopedic/photographic knowledge of obscue things from Middle English to trees to cars, the latter thanks to her mechanic father. When she was little, she convinced herself that…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 7, 2023

  Book/Author Highlight

  #Ibelieveinathingcalledlove, #macmillan, #maurenegoo, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #romance, #scholastic, #sinceyouasked, #somewhereonlyweknow, #thewayyoumakemefeel, #YA