Tag: #YA

• Ali’s Pretty Little Lies Review

  Big warning here. Technically this book is a prequel and chronologically takes place before the first book. But it came out after #13 or something and reveals quite a few things, and by reveals, it changes how you view what came before. So spoilers ahead.

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 4, 2022

  Reviews

  #alisprettylittlelies, #harpercollins, #mystery, #prettylittleliars, #rachelreads&reviews, #sarashepard, #YA

• Author Highlight: Elizabeth Acevedo

  So I’m back with another notable author, Elizabeth Acevedo. Originally Acevedo had wanted to be a rapper, inspired by her neighbohood and Afro-Latin heritage to rap about the abuelas who fed her pastelitos and the racism and sexism she faced. But since that was too “soft” for the rap word, she switched to spoken word…

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 28, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #afrolatinx, #clapwhenyouland, #elizabethacevedo, #harpercollins, #rachelreads&reviews, #thepoetx, #withthefireonhigh, #YA

• Interview with Joya Goffney

  Joya Goffney is the dazzling novelist of Excuse Me While I Ugly Cry and Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl from Texas. Her work centers around Black identity, romance and other young adult trials and triumphs. She is also a kind, communicative author who has answered my emails and allowed me to interview her for…

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 27, 2022

  Interview

  #joyagoffney, #rachelreads&reviews, #YA

• Pretty Little Liars Review

  *I have never seen the tv show so these reviews won’t be influenced or confused by the television events. Sara Shepard’s debut series of the sleepy little town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania sparks one of the twistiest teen intrigues of the early 200s. You see, Rosewood is a town full of secrets harbored by the prettiest…

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 20, 2022

  Reviews

  #harpercollins, #prettylittleliars, #rachelreads&reviews, #sarashepard, #YA

• Black Girl Love

  Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney Preacher’s daughter, Monique is a good girl. Well she’s not, everyone else believes she is. Her parents especially so compared to their older daughter, Myracle whom they kicked out a year ago. And that’s what Monique intends for them to keep believing as she fools around…

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 10, 2022

  Book Suggestions

  #confessionsofanallegedgoodgirl, #excusemewhileIuglycry, #farrahrochon, #grandcentralpublishing, #harpercollins, #harperteen, #joyagoffney, #rachelreads&reviews, #romance, #thedatingplaybook, #YA

• Jo and Laurie Review

  For all those who rooted for Laurie and Jo to end up together, this is for you.

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 9, 2022

  Reviews

  #joandlaurie, #littlewomen, #margaretstohl, #melissadelacruz, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #romanticretelling, #YA

• Book Highlight: Suite Scarlett

  This was the first book I read in the middle school library, and I have lked it ever since. It’s not too groundbreaking, it has the rather generic coming of age story of a teenage girl. Only hers is that she and the rest of their family are trying to save their dying hotel. It…

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 2, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #maureenjohnson, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #scholastic, #suitescarlett, #YA

• Book Highlight: Unbecoming

  This heartwarming YA novel explores three generations of women, and the secrets that burden them and twist their relationship with their daughters over the years.

  rachelbeerwoman

  June 1, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #jennydownham, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #scholastic, #unbecoming, #YA

• Book Highlight: The Waterfire Saga

  For anyone who is a mermaid fan, this fantasy adventure is just for you. The six seas are made up of different kingdoms and are under threat by a monsterous levithan creature called Abbadon who was raised by even more mysterious ancestor come back from the dead and for revenge.

  rachelbeerwoman

  May 12, 2022

  Book/Author Highlight

  #darktide, #deepblue, #disneyhyperion, #jenniferdonnelly, #mermaids, #rachelreads&reviews, #roguewave, #seaspell, #waterfiresaga, #YA

• YA Protagonists and Relatability

  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…

  rachelbeerwoman

  May 8, 2022

  Uncategorized

  #comments, #dc, #marvel, #newadult, #questions, #rachelreads&reviews, #YA