Welcome to Between the Pages!
If you love books that make you feel everything (I’m talking pull you in, break your heart, make you lose sleep, kick your feet, and emit noises that would make scientists concerned) you’re in the right place.
Over here, we like to:
Do deep-dive book discussions
Give totally bias reviews - I love dark romance and you will have to pry morally grey men out of my cold dead hands
Share recommendations (mine and yours!) because our TBR list isn’t long enough …
Chat about our slightly deranged love for fictional characters - see aforementioned affinity of morally grey men
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Who is Rachel D. Oak?
Well, this is awkward, I probably should’ve introduced myself already.
Hey, I’m Rachel, aka TheAuthorRach 👋 I write emotional romance books that explore identity, love, the hot mess of being human, with plenty of bad jokes to keep things interesting. My debut novel Lavender Bay started as an angsty, fanfiction-inspired escape when I was a teenager, and somehow years later it became a real thing. like you can actually buy it on Amazon, freaky.
Nowadays when I’m not writing you’ll find me binge-reading dark romance, engaging in extremely serious debates about fictional men on social media, and pretending I’m romanticizing rainy days when really I just don’t like to leave my house.
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