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About Rachel

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I love to read and would like to get better about reviewing the books I go through every year. Fighting cancer at the same time only makes it better. (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Rachel's Quick Questions interview.)

Rachel's Reviews:

Being 34th In Line to the Throne Is Not So Bad…

A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen

January 29, 2019 by Rachel Leave a Comment

A Royal Pain by Rhys Bowen Finished Jan. 21, 2019, took six days to read 4 Stars on Goodreads Genre: Mystery/Thriller; Sub-genre: Cozy Mystery Rating 2/4 for 2019 overall, 1/1 for Mystery/Thriller This is the second book in the “Her Royal Spyness” cozy mystery series. Our heroine Lady Georgiana is 34th in line to the English throne in the mid-1930s, with her first cousin being the Prince of Wales who went on to abdicate the throne. Georgie, as her friends call her, has the title […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: cozy mystery, mystery, Rhys Bowen, royalty

Rachel's CBR11 Review No:4 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: cozy mystery, mystery, Rhys Bowen, royalty ·
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Kind of Jealous I Didn’t Apply for that Rhodes Scholarship

My Oxford Year by Julia Wheelan

January 15, 2019 by Rachel Leave a Comment

My third book for 2019 followed a year in the life of 24 year old Ella as she starts her journey as a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford. Ella is a young prodigy in American politics. She is young, driven, and has a plan for her entire life. She has wanted to spend a year in Oxford since she was a teenager, and her Rhodes year is her last hurrah before she has to get a job and tackle the real world. Of course, once she […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Fiction, fluff, Julia Wheelan, Oxford, ReadWomen, Romance, romatical fluff

Rachel's CBR11 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: Fiction, fluff, Julia Wheelan, Oxford, ReadWomen, Romance, romatical fluff ·
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A Severance Package at the End of the World

Severance by Ling Ma

January 13, 2019 by Rachel Leave a Comment

I love a good post apocalypse novel, even though I am totally afraid of a massive disaster, like a plague, or meteor, or worldwide economic meltdown. This is why reading these types of novels is fun for me. Severance was actually a plague based disaster novel, with a little bit of cult obsession and passive zombies added in to keep things interesting. The novel focuses on Candace, a disillusioned New Yorker who somehow manages to survive the “fever” that swept across the globe. We switch […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Ling Ma, post apocalypse

Rachel's CBR11 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Ling Ma, post apocalypse ·
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12th Century Boss Lady

The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick

January 10, 2019 by Rachel 5 Comments

Even as a self-proclaimed Anglophile, and British history major in college, I must admit that I did not know much about Eleanor of Aquitaine. I am very glad to have stumbled upon this completed three-part series by Elizabeth Chadwick. Chadwick is a new author to me, but I enjoyed her style of writing and great attention to historical detail. Historical fiction cannot be easy to write but is so wonderful to read when an author gets it right. The books begins when Aelinor (the actual […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: 12th century, Elizabeth Chadwick, England, France, historical fiction

Rachel's CBR11 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: 12th century, Elizabeth Chadwick, England, France, historical fiction ·
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