Jonetta’s Comments (group member since Nov 25, 2014)

Jonetta’s comments from the 2-3-4 Challenge group.

To some he was Orphan X. Others knew him as the Nowhere Man. But to Jack Johns he was a boy named Evan Smoak. Taken from an orphanage, Evan was raised inside a top-secret government programme and trained to become a lethal weapon. By Jack. And yet for all the dangerous skill he instilled in his young charge, Jack Jones cared for Evan like a son.

But Jack knew too much about a programme that had gone rotten - he was a loose end that needed to be dealt with. But if you go after the only person who ever treated him like a human being, you can guarantee that the Nowhere Man will be coming for you. Hellbent on making things right . . .

With Hellbent, Gregg Hurwitz raises the bar again with a masterclass in hi-octane thriller writing.

Book Discussion

Jonetta’s Series Up to Date Tracker
Goal: 15

1. The Thompsons of Locust Street by Holly Bush
2. in Death by J. D. Robb
3. Scoundrels of Mayfair by Anna Campbell
4. Holly Grove Island by Reese Ryan
5. Bree Taggert by Melinda Leigh
6. Gaslight Mystery by Victoria Thompson
7. Quinn & Costa by Allison Brennan
8. Bishop Security by Debbie Baldwin
9. Sebastian St. Cyr by C. S. Harris

Create your individual trackers to capture those series where you're up to date but the series isn't over (more books planned for release).

Jonetta’s Tracker - Series Completed
Goal: 5

1. A Scandal in Mayfair by Anna Campbell
2. DI Kim Stone by Angela Marsons
3. Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren

Create your individual tracker so you can update it each time you've finished reading a series that's reached its end.

Let's continue working together to get up to date in our series! It's as big a deal as completing one. We achieved our goal of 150 in 2022 so we will go for that again

Here's how it works. (You can join on and after January 1, 2023)

1. You can find the challenge here or on our group home page.
2. After selecting the challenge, complete the information requested, including the number of series where you plan to get up to date in 2023 (it says books here but for this challenge, think series). Where it asks for a shelf name, type in your profile name. Save the information.
3. Go to your shelf and edit "bookshelves." Type in "150 utd" (without the quotes) and then select "Add." This will be the shelf you'll use to track your progress (more to come). You can select another name for your shelf if you prefer.
4. Return to the group home page and select "update my entry" and add the shelf name exactly as follows: 150-utd (or, whatever shelf name you created) but remember to use all lowercase.
5. Click "Save."
6. You've now entered the challenge!

Now, how do you track your series progress?
Whenever you read the last book in a series that you now consider up to date, add that book to your 150-utd shelf (or other shelf name you created). It will be included in the challenge results.

If the series appears to be complete (last book released some time ago, the story feels final, no word from the author about continuing the series, etc.), consider it complete. Otherwise, if there's some doubt, mark it up to date.

Last year, a few I'd tagged as up to date ended up being finished and vice versa. No need to change a previous year but if things change in the current year, you can always adjust.

I've also used the GR "Ask the Author" feature with some success.

(If an author of one of your series releases another book during the year and you don't read the new book by December 31, 2023, you'll need to remove the last book you read from the 150 utd shelf.)

We hope everyone will join again!

Let's continue this challenge in 2023 but with a slightly lower goal of 100. While our individual goals may vary, everyone of us has a goal to complete at least one series in 2023.

Here's how it works. (You can’t join the challenge until January 1, 2023.)

1. You can find the challenge here or on our group home page.
2. After selecting the challenge, complete the information requested, including the number of series you plan to complete in 2023 (it says books here but for this challenge, think series). Where it asks for a shelf name, type in your profile name. Save the information.
3. Go to your shelf and edit "bookshelves." Type in "100 comp" (without the quotes) and then select "Add." This will be the shelf you'll use to track your progress (more to come). Note: This is the suggested shelf name. You can name yours whatever you want.
4. Return to the group home page and select "update my entry" and add the shelf name as follows: 100-comp (or whatever you named your shelf), all lowercase.
5. Click "Save."
6. You've now entered the challenge!

Now, how do you track your series progress?
Whenever you read the last book in a series that you now consider completed (not up to date), add that book to your 100-comp shelf (or the shelf you created for the challenge). It will be included in the challenge results.

If the series appears to be complete (last book released some time ago, the story feels final, no word from the author about continuing the series, etc.), consider it complete. Otherwise, if there's some doubt, mark it up to date.

Last year, a few I'd tagged as up to date ended up being finished and vice versa. No need to change a previous year but if things change in the current year, you can always adjust.

I've also used the GR "Ask the Author" feature with some success.

We hope everyone will join!

I finished listening to All That We Are
my review

Detective Erika Foster by Robert Bryndza
✔ ★ 📖 🎧


✔The Girl in the Ice #1 ★★★★
The Night Stalker #2
Dark Water #3
Last Breath #4
Cold Blood #5
Deadly Secrets #6
Fatal Witness #7

I finished listening to All Through the Night
my review

Robin wrote: "Wow, Jonetta! You blew it out of the water! Congratulations."

Thank you, Robin! My goal was to read at least 4 standalones each month while keeping up with my series. The reality was I was able to read more via audiobooks so both goals were exceeded.

I’m starting late today or tomorrow.

Thanks, Lauren, for the idea to look at how my results compared to my goals!

My 2022 Goals Results
Series Completed Goal - 5 (Actual - 8)
1. Max Revere by Allison Brennan
2. A Scandal in Mayfair by Anna Campbell
3. Colorado High Country by Pamela Clare
4. The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell
5. The Ravenels by Lisa Kleypas
6. It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover
7. Getaway by Various Authors
8. Wyndham Beach by Mariah Stewart

Series Up to Date Goal - 10 (Actual - 17)
1. In Death by J. D. Robb
2. The Thompsons of Locust Street by Holly Bush
3. Procedural Crime by Amanda Stevens
4. Gaslight Mystery by Victoria Thompson
5. Wilde by Harlan Coben
6. Quinn & Costa by Allison Brennan
7. Bishop Security by Debbie Baldwin
8. Sebastian St. Cyr by C. S. Harris
9. DI Kim Stone by Angela Marsons
10. Rabun County by Lisa Clark O’Neill
11. Rizzoli & Isles by Tess Gerritsen
12. McKinney/Walker Brothers by Claudia Connor
13. Buchanan-Renard by Julie Garwood
14. Lucy Kincaid by Allison Brennan
15. Tracy Crosswhite by Robert Dugoni
16. Wishing Tree by Susan Mallery
17. Kate Burkholder by Linda Castillo

Authors of Another Culture - 10 (Actual - 21)
1. Janice Hallett - The Appeal (UK)
2. Sarah Morgan - Beach House Summer (UK)
3. Lisa Jewell - The Family Remains (UK)
4. Sally Hepworth - Uncharted Waters (UK)
5. Will Dean - First Born (UK)
6. Catherine Steadman - Stockholm (UK)
7. Gillian McAllister - Wrong Place, Wrong Time (UK)
8. Beth O’Leary - The Flatshare (UK)
9. Adam Hamdy - The Other Side of Night (UK)
10. Alice Feeney - Daisy Darker (UK)
11. Lia Louis - The Key to My Heart (UK)
12. Karen Hamilton - The Ex-Husband (UK)
13. Adele Parks - Woman Last Seen (UK)
14. Chevy Stevens - Dark Roads (Canada)
15. Anna Campbell - Three Times Tempted (Australia)
16. Daniel Hurst - Til Death Do Us Part (UK)
17. Hannah Mary McKinnon - Never Coming Home (UK/Switzerland/Canada)
18. Angela Marsons - DI Kim Stone series (UK)
19. Clare Mackintosh - Hostage (Wales)
20. Tara Westover - Educated (Mormon)
21. Ruth Ware - The It Girl (UK)

Standalones - 48 (Actual - 58)
1. Love at First Spite by Anna E. Collins
2. The Ex-Husband by Karen Hamilton
3. The Fields by Erin Young
4. Morning Glory by LaVyrle Spencer
5. The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
6. Woman Last Seen by Adele Parks
7. Weather Girl by Rachel Lynn Solomon
8. The Appeal by Janice Hallett
9. Dark Roads by Chevy Stevens
10. The Summer Getaway by Susan Mallery
11. Savvy Sheldon Feels Good as Hell by Taj McCoy
12. The Lying Club by Annie Ward
13. Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover
14. Summer on the Island by Brenda Novak
15. A Family Affair by Robyn Carr
16. The Match by Harlan Coben
17. Til Death Do Us Part by Daniel Hurst
18. Partner Track by Cat Wynn
19. Wish You Were Gone by Kieran Scott
20. Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
21. Something Wilder by Christina Lauren
22. It’s Raining Men by Rich Amooi
23. On a Quiet Street by Seraphina Nova Glass
24. The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth
25. Never Coming Home by Hannah Mary McKinnon
26. The Boardwalk Bookshop by Susan Mallery
27. Nightwork by Nora Roberts
28. Good Husbands by Cate Ray
29. Out of the Clear Blue Sky by Kristan Higgins
30. Hostage by Clare Mackintosh
31. Educated by Tara Westover
32. The It Girl by Ruth Ware
33. One Italian Summer by Rebecca Serle
34. Beach House Summer by Sarah Morgan
35. Long Past Summer by Noué Kirwan
36. Take My Husband by Ellen Meister
37. My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
38. Nine Lives by Peter Swanson
39. Snowed in for Christmas by Sarah Morgan
40. First Born by Will Dean
41. His Happy Place by Zakiya Dalila Harris
42. Marlow Banks, Redesigned by Jennifer Firkins
43. Blacktop Wasteland by S. A. Cosby
44. Wrong Place, Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
45. Catch Her in a Lie by Jess Lourey
46. Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
47. Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton, et al
48. The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
49. The Other Side of Night by Adam Hamdy
50. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
51. A Quiet Life by Ethan Joella
52. Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
53. The Personal Assistant by Kimberly Belle
54. We Used to Live Here by Daniel Hurst
55. The Sunshine Girls by Molly Fader
56. The Key to My Heart by Lia Louis
57. The Levee by William Kent Krueger
58. Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

Total Read - 150 (Actual - 162 and still counting)

Goal: 10

1. Janice Hallett - The Appeal (UK)
2. Sarah Morgan - Beach House Summer (UK)
3. Lisa Jewell - The Family Remains (UK)
4. Sally Hepworth - Uncharted Waters (UK)
5. Will Dean - First Born (UK)
6. Catherine Steadman - Stockholm (UK)
7. Gillian McAllister - Wrong Place, Wrong Time (UK)
8. Beth O’Leary - The Flatshare (UK)
9. Adam Hamdy - The Other Side of Night (UK)
10. Alice Feeney - Daisy Darker (UK)
11. Lia Louis - The Key to My Heart (UK)
12. Karen Hamilton - The Ex-Husband (UK)
13. Adele Parks - Woman Last Seen (UK)
14. Chevy Stevens - Dark Roads (Canada)
15. Anna Campbell - Three Times Tempted (Australia)
16. Daniel Hurst - Til Death Do Us Part (UK)
17. Hannah Mary McKinnon - Never Coming Home (UK/Switzerland/Canada)
18. Angela Marsons - DI Kim Stone series (UK)
19. Clare Mackintosh - Hostage (Wales)
20. Tara Westover - Educated (Mormon)
21. Ruth Ware - The It Girl (UK)

Oh, that’s a great tease!

Viki wrote: "Viki wrote: "I only have two goals which is to read :
To read 30 books
Continue to read books from series I like"

I didn't do great on my goals. I only read 24 books. I did read books from series ..."

Viki, I think you did just fine!

I finished listening to:

Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan and wish I hadn’t waited so long to read this!
my review


Goodbye Again by Mariah Stewart, Wyndham Beach #2, and I’m hooked on these friends and their community.
my review

Well done, Lauren!!!

I finished listening to Goodbye Again
my review

I finished listening to Nora Goes Off Script
my review