#Rachel Hawkins

[thoughtkick]

It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved and its over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again.

Rachel Hawkins

[perfectfeelings]

It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved and its over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again.

Rachel Hawkins

[stay-close]

It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved and its over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again.

Rachel Hawkins

[perfectquote]

It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved and its over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again.

Rachel Hawkins

[surqrised]

It sucks that we miss people like that. You think you've accepted that someone is out of your life, that you've grieved and its over, and then bam. One little thing, and you feel like you've lost that person all over again.

Rachel Hawkins

[poetlcs]

books read in 2024 - no. 9

the heiress by rachel hawkins

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2023 📖 no. 146

The Heiress by Rachel Hawkins

“Second act plot twist, your heroine is actually a potential villain. But I’m not, I swear. Everything I’ve done, everything I’m doing, is for Cam.”

[books-in-a-storm]

Might Guy

[aliteraryprincess]

February 2024 Wrap Up

Why is it that February always seems to last forever? It's got to be one of my least favorite months, although it does mark the anniversary of me meeting my husband, so at least there's that. We've known each other five years!

Books Read: 6

This was a good reading month. Cecilia is my favorite of the month (and frankly should count for three books since it's so huge). The Margaret Oliphant biography is my least favorite, although I didn't hate it or anything. It was definitely less condescending and obnoxious than the one I read back in November that made me want to fight the authors (unfortunately I can't; they're dead). But it was still a little condescending and Williams referred to Oliphant as Margaret throughout, which irritated me. Ones marked with ® are rereads.

Margaret Oliphant: A Critical Biography by Merryn Williams - 3 stars

Salem Chapel by Margaret Oliphant - 4 stars ®

Heartstopper Vol. 5 by Alice Oseman - 5 stars

A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid - 5 stars

Cecilia by Frances Burney - 5 stars

The Villa by Rachel Hawkins - 4 stars

On Tumblr:

Look, I'm posting photos again! I'm trying to post pictures of my fairy tale retellings on Fridays as a small continuation of Fairy Tale Friday. My favorite thing about writing those posts for my blog was taking the photos, and I would still like to do that even though I've moved the feature onto YouTube.

January 2024 Wrap Up

Book Photography: The Night Dance by Suzanne Weyn

Book Photography: Midnight Pearls by Debbie Viguié

Book Quotes: A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

Book Quotes: A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid

Reblogged: Horror Recommendations for a Teen

On YouTube:

And we've got a fair amount here, including an hour long ramble about The Chronicles of Narnia!

January Wrap Up | 9 books for the start of 2024!

Rereading The Chronicles of Narnia as an Adult | Remember December Rereadathon

A #FebRegency Currently Reading 2/12/24

The #FebRegency Tag

March TBR | (Middle)March of the Mammoths!

What I Read for My PhD in English Literature | 19th-Century American Literature

[elmundoestahechodefrasesyletras]

No me pasa nada físicamente, es el alma la que de repente tengo algo desgastada.

[mmatelonek]

catching up on some fun reads! Here is a fun animated GIF/animation I created based on the book/book cover, Her Royal Highness. Check out the book, its pretty great!

[sapphic-book-tournament]

[internationalteaparty]

Chapters: 18/? Fandom: Royals Series - Rachel Hawkins Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Flora Baird/Millie Quint Additional Tags: Fluff, Drabble Collection, Some Post-Canon, Some filling in the gap, other characters that i'm too lazy to tag right now Summary:

A series of drabbles with our beloved Princess of Scotland and Texan rock lover at the center of it all.

[desdasiwrites]

–Rachel Hawkins, Her Royal Highness

[bookishbethanyerin]

• arc review: the heiress •

Not gonna lie: I highly recommend starting the year with a twisty, juicy domestic thriller. And Rachel Hawkins’s “The Heiress” not only delivers fun plot twists in her Southern-tinged tale, but a huge dose of toxic family dynamics and women behaving badly in this multi-POV, dual timeline story.

The book follows Camden and Jules, a happily married couple living in Colorado who travel to Cam’s family’s North Carolina home for the first time together to settle some matters – because though he was adopted, he is the heir to the family fortune and holds the pursestrings.

As Cam navigates his estranged family and Jules’s own motivations emerge, so too does the story of the titular heiress: Ruby McTavish, a woman wrapped in scandal after being kidnapped as a child and growing up to survive four husbands.

Though I didn’t think I was in the right ~mood~ for this book when I started it, I was quickly won over by Hawkins’s storytelling, her lively characters, and her ability to weave in irreverant humor. Though I saw one of the twists coming, there were others that took me by surprise, and the story kept me on my toes as I turned the pages.

Overall, The Heiress is the kind of thriller that is so much addicting fun it will likely keep you up at night so that you can finish it – and not because it’s given you nightmares.

4.25🌟

• I received an advanced copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. The Heiress comes out January 9th! •