Rachel Hartman | Author

About the Author

Rachel Hartman was born in Kentucky but has lived in several places including Chicago, Philadelphia, England and Japan. She has a BA in Comparative Literature. After graduating she began drawing comic books. Her title Shadow Scale made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2015. (Bowker Author show more Biography) show less

Series

Southlands

Seraphina

Works by Rachel Hartman

Popular Recent

Seraphina (2012) 3,701 copies

Shadow Scale (2015) 1,171 copies

Tess of the Road (2018) 780 copies

In the Serpent's Wake (2022) 138 copies

The Audition (2012) 122 copies

Belondweg Blossoming (2002) 67 copies

Amy Unbounded: The Ashcan Series, Nos. 1-12 (1996) 3 copies

The New One {short story} (2016) 1 copy

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Associated Works

A Taste of Serendib (2003) — Illustrator — 21 copies

Friends of Lulu Presents: Broad Appeal (2003) — Contributor — 16 copies

The Best of Strange Horizons: Year One : September 2000-August 2001 (2003) — Contributor — 11 copies

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1972
Gender: female
Nationality: Canada
Birthplace: Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Places of residence: Vancouver, Canada

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Found: Dystopian or fantasy book I read a long time ago in Name that Book (September 2021)

Reviews

Tess of the Road by Rachel Hartman

Funny, smart, and with emotional depth and intelligence that kept surprising me.

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mmparker | 66 other reviews | Oct 24, 2023 |

In the Serpent's Wake by Rachel Hartman

This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

A little messy but quite captivating After reading all of Rachel Hartman's books about Seraphina and Tess, the Southlands series, namely Tess of the Road and In the serpent’s Wake, turned out to be the most exciting. Although it seemed to me that the author had not yet decided what genre and writing style she would like to write in. The Seraphina series of books is focused on fantasy, and the Tess series is more related to adventures with a dose of fantasy. The format of writing the books also confuses me a little, the first two books were written in the first person, the first book about Tess told only about the adventures of Tess in the second person, while this book contains several narrative lines in the second person. The history of the islands is also quite incomprehensible, perhaps only to me, there are quite a lot of nations and branches from them, there are also quite a lot of main characters, it is not always possible to quickly and easily remember who we are talking about but as a big fan of adventure books, I can highly appreciate the book’s richness with all sorts of events and unexpected turns. It would be interesting to read more books by this author, since in my opinion she found her genre and writing style in the last book in which she should develop.… (more)

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DariaLav | 17 other reviews | Sep 26, 2023 |

In the Serpent's Wake by Rachel Hartman

This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

I would recommend this book (and it's prequel) to older teen fans of fantasy. I enjoyed it although I have to say I didn't realise this was book 2 when I won it. I found a copy of Tess and was pleased to have the story continue 2 times as long as I expected.

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beccaereads | 17 other reviews | Sep 19, 2023 |

In the Serpent's Wake by Rachel Hartman

This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.

It was a good book

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Fabuliz | 17 other reviews | Sep 18, 2023 |

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