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The Tapestry of Fate: Supporting women’s rights…and women’s wrongs.

The Tapestry of Fate by Shannon Chakraborty

July 10, 2026 by beereadsbooks Leave a Comment

Tapestry of Fate picks up shortly after the ending of the Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi, and is deeply related to some of the happenings towards the end of the first book. So, there will be spoilers below for the Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi. Amina has been granted super-human abilities and tasked with finding five Transgressions. Well, four after the Moon of Saba. We get a small glimpse at Amina, Dalila, Tinbu, and Majed’s adventure to collect the second Transgression early on in the book, but […]

The Kiss Quotient: Reverse, diverse Pretty Woman.

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

June 22, 2026 by beereadsbooks 1 Comment

Stella is woman in her 30s (?) with a good job, good money, good relationships with her parents, but horror of horrors she does not have a boyfriend or husband. When her mother suggests that she’s ready for grandchildren, Stella feels the pressure of all of her failed romantic encounters dragging her towards childlessness. Stella knows that she is bad at sex and that is the reason why she cannot hold down a man. So she makes a plan to fix herself so that she […]

Daughter of the Lioness: Land Back, but make it fantasy

Trickster's Choice by Tamora Pierce

Trickster's Queen by Tamora Pierce

June 21, 2026 by beereadsbooks Leave a Comment

The Daughter of the Lioness duet is the final set in the Tortall series that I will be re-reading. There’s also the Beka Cooper books that I’ve never read and the first of the unfinished Numair series, but I’ll be moving away from Tortall after this. Until this point, we’ve been moving further and further away from the Mary Sue of it all. At the beginning we had Alanna. Alanna was imbued with skills and abilities that are unbelievable for any eleven-year-old to possess, like […]

The River of Silver: A nice reward for finishing a wonderful series

The River of Silver: Tales from the Daevabad Trilogy by Shannon Chakraborty

May 31, 2026 by beereadsbooks Leave a Comment

After taking a brief rest from tearing through Empire of Gold, I took a much more gentle pace through River of Silver. River of Silver is a series of short stories from multiple character points of view that stretches across the whole scope of the original trilogy. The stories are arranged chronologically from decades before we start City of Brass through to just after the ending of Empire of Gold. There are a few stories from the trilogy’s main protagonists, but mostly the stories are […]

The Daevabad Trilogy: “Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Revenge. Giants. Monsters. Chases. Escapes. True love. Miracles.”

The City of Brass by Shannon Chakraborty

The Kingdom of Copper by Shannon Chakraborty

The Empire of Gold by Shannon Chakraborty

May 25, 2026 by beereadsbooks 5 Comments

It has been a while since I’ve made such dubious choices regarding reading hours as I did to read this trilogy. I read City of Brass at a decent pace and finished it in about 6 days. Kingdom of Copper lined up with a weekend so I ignored pretty much all of my responsibilities to finish in 2 days. While Empire of Gold technically took 8 days, I read the last 250 pages in about 7 hours – staying up until 2:30 AM to finish. […]

Protector of the Small: Anything boys can do, Keladry can do better.

First Test by Tamora Pierce

Page by Tamora Pierce

Squire by Tamora Pierce

Lady Knight by Tamora Pierce

May 24, 2026 by beereadsbooks 1 Comment

I love every Tortall main character (that I’ve read. I still haven’t read the final series with Beka), but Keladry of Mindelan is hands-down my favorite Tortall MC and one of my favorite MCs ever. I adore her and her story. She is tenacious, hard working, grounded, tough, kind, unbendingly dedicated to justice, and just a lovely human. It is a joy to see her grow, find community, and succeed (spoilers?). While I have mostly been reading this series before bed, I tore through Protector […]

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