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Hmmmm, the spaceship is small, but can't deny that it's clearly one, so it's ok, this time. For most things, they should probably be a bit bigger. :)As long as 13 is part of the title (and it is) yes, you can still use it. Series doesn't come into play. :)
The last one is tricky. The point of the Task is to be a bad book (because that movie is considered a bad movie) so you could technically do one without a rating but if you like it, it doesn't fit with the spirit of the challenge. So I think we'll have to say no on that one, there has to be at least a rating so someone has said that it's a bad book.
Welcome Jenny! We're glad you joined the pack! Awesome to see you join in! Wooo. We'll be setting your threads up now.Hope you have tons of fun here at BARC!
Yup, that's all you need to do. No, you don't need to put the completion post elsewhere (like we do in Return to Hogwarts). Just think of Evo as any typical challenge, and you post your completions in your own thread. We just trust you to go by the spirit of the challenge, so just post all your 1-7 either in one post, or in order in separate ones. Then you can move on to the park stuff.
That help? :)
What’s your favorite drink?Mt Dew ~ morning, noon & night. I rarely drink anything else.
Who’s your go to band or artist when you can’t decide on something to listen to?
I don't listen to much, was sheltered as a kid when it comes to music and never really found a lot I like. My current obsession is Pentatonix, or since Avi left, just Superfruit.
Would you rather go hang gliding or whitewater rafting?
I'd do either, though I have actually been whitewater rating once, and loved it, so I'd probably do hang gliding to experience it too.
What’s the best thing that happened to you last week?
Got a new-to-us California King bed given to us by the mother of a friend of ours who was moving to FL to live near the friend and wasn't taking the bed. Also scored all her food. :)
What city would you most like to live in?
Vegas! I've been there 7 times, and it's my all time favorite place! It's so unique and fun. I've never been, but I also think my Hubby and I would fit into San Fran as well. Though I don't like the state of this country these days, so I really need to see what city elsewhere I'd like. Something in Denmark or Switzerland would probably suit us.
What is special about the place you grew up?
Not a darn thing. Tiny place. Probably the only "claim" to fame was that it was part of the largest outbreak of tornados in the region that affected PA, OH, NY and Canada. That was in 1985.
What chapters would you separate your autobiography into?
Before & After
In this case yes (see what I said about this particular book Here).Basically since the 3 individual books became one new book, it works.
(GREAT story too! It's soooo cute, just a feel good / cheerful story with great characters. You'll have to let me know what you think.)
PostingTitle: The Adventurers Guild
Author: Zack Loran Clark
Star Rating: 3 stars
Date Finished: 6/30/18
Total Pages: 320
Title: The Land: Forging
Author: Aleron Kong
Star Rating: 5 stars
Date Finished: 6/30/18
Total Pages: 382
Title: Neverworld Wake
Author: Marisha Pessl
Star Rating: 5 stars
Date Finished: 7/1/18
Total Pages: 336
Title: Amazonia
Author: James Rollins
Star Rating: 4 stars
Date Finished: 7/2/18
Total Pages: 544
Title: The Land: Alliances
Author: Aleron Kong
Star Rating: 5 stars
Date Finished: 7/13/18
Total Pages: 359
Title: Shattered
Author: Kevin Hearne
Star Rating: 4 stars
Date Finished: 7/19/18
Total Pages: 386
Title: Three Slices
Author: Kevin Hearne
Star Rating: 3 stars
Date Finished: 7/20/18
Total Pages: 166
Title: Double Blind
Author: Iris Johansen
Star Rating: 5 stars
Date Finished: 7/21/18
Total Pages: 336
Title: Aunt Belle's Time Travel & Collectibles
Author: Marshall Thornton
Star Rating: 4 stars
Date Finished: 7/21/18
Total Pages: 144
Title: For We Are Many
Author: Dennis Taylor
Star Rating: 5 stars
Date Finished: 7/21/18
Total Pages: 311
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Bunch of Mini Reviews ~ #7-11Title: Freeks
Author: Amanda Hocking
Genre: YA Fantasy / Paranormal
Read: 9/21/16
Rating: 3 stars
Review:
Received from NetGalley for my honest review
Completed 9/21/16
400 page ebook
I requested this book because I'll read pretty much anything to do with a theme park or a circus. The Night Circus (my favorite book) this was not, but it wasn't an awful book.
Odd things are happening around the circus and people are disappearing, but no one is really concerned at first, I found that rather weird. The MC was more worried about the boy she liked finding out who she was, and that she was a carnie. It took a little while for the book to really get going and I enjoyed the last part more than the beginnings.
I didn't really care for the whole outcome though. I saw it coming, not for the whole book, but for quite a while, before the big reveal, so that was a bit of a letdown. Overall it was a good book with some flaws. Good for fans of the circus, but if you looking for something earth shattering, keep looking. :)
Setting = B
Plot = C
Conflict = C
Characters = B
Theme = B
Recommendation: Meh, maybe? If circuses are your thing, and paranormal stuffs. Be prepared for flat characters and just an ok story.
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Title: Vanquished
Author: S.E. Green
Genre: New Adult Dystopian
Read: 8/11/16
Rating: 5+ stars!
Review:
Received from NetGalley for my honest review
Completed 8/11/16
259 page ebook
Disclaimer: This book is SERIOUSLY messed up. Trigger Warnings: if you have issues with rape and/or violence towards teenagers, then skip this book.
Regardless of the disclaimer & trigger warnings, this book was AWESOME!!! If you don't mind senseless violence in your books and the capture and torture of teenagers, then you may love this book. It's kind of like a Hunger Games type thing where teens are fighting for their lives. It's very different from HG, it's just got that kind of feel to it, but it's really really good.
Teens are stolen from their lives and taken to an island where they must fight with each other to survive. They are also used and abused in other ways. But the characters are likable, the storyline is great, and it really is a gripping read, it kept my attention from start to finish. I loved the book and I highly recommend it to anyone who won't be bothered by the triggers.
Setting = A
Plot = A
Conflict = A+
Characters = A
Theme = A+
Recommendation: HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend, unless you have trigger warnings with rape or harm coming to teens/early 20s characters. VERY VERY enjoyable book, well done. Great characters and story. LOVE it!
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Title: The Operator
Author: Kim Harrison
Genre: Science Fiction / Urban Fantasy
Read: 1/27/17
Rating: 2 stars
Review:
Received from NetGalley for my honest review
Completed 1/27/17
512 page ebook
This is the 2nd book in a series. I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVED the first book. It was so enjoyable. Not so much with the 2nd one, and I was soooooooo disappointed! I debated the rating for this book. It's not even in the same league as the first book. The first book is all suspenseful and thrilling, this one is a dud.
Basically it's all about a drug and that put me off this book right away. If you read the first book (a must if you want to read this one) I can save you time and let you know this book is about a drug that would make anchors be worthless. That's it, start to finish. There's a FEW good moments in it but overall it's a piece of shit with Peri being whiney all through it. I thought she was strong, but she's weak and spineless in this book. I didn't really like it at ALL. I don't know if I'd try the next book or not, probably not.
Setting = B
Plot = F
Conflict = F
Characters = C
Theme = C
Recommendation: I LOVED the first book it's an awesome time travel book and soooo good with such good characters. I recommend it, as a stand alone book. This book fell soooooo flat and was just so awful after the wonderfulness of the first book!
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Title: Night Watch
Author: Iris Johansen
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Read: 9/13/16
Rating: 4 stars
Review:
Received from NetGalley for my honest review
Completed 9/13/16
352 page ebook
I am a big fan of the Kendra Michaels series, I read all the books as soon as they come out, or before, with the case of NetGalley. :)
We meet Kendra in the Eve Duncan series and I hoped right away that we'd get a series for her, and was so glad when we did. Kendra was born blind, then received sight years later. She uses her heightened senses to help out cops and the FBI solve crimes. The books usually start with someone new meeting Kendra and being skeptical about her until she "proves" her powers of observation. You'd think this would get old, and while it is repetitive, it's always entertaining how she puts people in their place. Kendra isn't a people person, and she's very much in your face. Not everyone likes that, but I love that in her character, I think it makes her even more unique.
This was not my favorite of the series, though it was still really good. I just found the storyline of this one to be a little slower and it didn't keep my attention as much as the others have. But still, a bad Kendra book is still better than many other books, so enjoyable overall. I'd highly recommend the series to any fans of murder mysteries with a strong female lead character.
Setting = A
Plot = B
Conflict = B
Characters = A+
Theme = B
Recommendation: Though this wasn't my favorite of the series, I highly recommend the series. Kendra is an AWESOME character and the series is great. You do not have to meet her first in the Eve Duncan series, can just start with the first of the series. Highly recommend!
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Title: Look Behind You
Author: Iris Johansen
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Read: 5/10/17
Rating: 5 stars
Review:
Received from NetGalley for my honest review
Completed 5/10/17
352 page ebook
This Kendra Michaels book was back to form. Gripping from the moment it started. A serial killer is leaving clues that no one can figure out, until Kendra gets on the case.
This book was non-stop from the start, and though I rated it high because I love these stories, I was a LITTLE disappointed with the killer. It took me a little longer than usual to figure it out, but once I did, I was a tad disappointed, as it's been done over and over. Can't say more without spoiling it. But most books have been done over and over in one way or another, so it was still enjoyable, and it's Kendra, the books are really not bad ever.
We see Jessie again in this one. I have a feeling she might get her own series, I guess we'll see. I don't like her as much as Kendra, and wouldn't mind just seeing her pop in and out of the Kendra stories, but I'd read 'em if she gets her own book. She's a good character, just not as interesting as Kendra.
Setting = A
Plot = A
Conflict = A
Characters = A+
Theme = A
Recommendation: Ditto the above review / recommendation. Very good series. Didn't love the killer on this one, as I figured it out, but still, Kendra is always awesome!
Bunch of Mini Reviews ~ #1-6Title: Dangerous Deception
Author: Savannah Stuart
Genre: Erotica / Romantic Suspense
Read: 7/05/16
Rating: 3 stars
Review:
Received from NetGalley for my honest review
Completed 07/05/16
174 page ebook
This book follows Sage & Trent. The beginning of the book is a one night stand between the characters, then she walks out. Trent spends time looking for her without success. Then, just because why not, she just HAPPENS to be working for Trent's brother, a year and a half later, and they come in contact again.
The book is basically one big sex scene. When they meet up again, she tries to run off, he goes and finds her and they start making out. Not that a book of one long sex scene is anything bad, I prefer those books sometimes, but this book was WAY short and had very little else to do with anything else. There was a story, but not much of one.
The characters were likable, the story was good, but it was way way too short. Had it been a full book with plenty of story it could have been a 5 star book.
Setting = C
Plot = C
Conflict = C
Characters = A
Theme = B
Recommendation: Yes, if you are looking for a fast erotic read. No, if you are looking for a well defined story & characters
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Title: The Revelation Code: A Novel
Author: Andy McDermott
Genre: Action Adventure / Thriller
Read: 7/15/16
Rating: 2.5 stars
Review:
Received from NetGalley for my honest review
Completed 07/15/16
512 page ebook
I've been reading, and enjoying, the Chase/Wilde series for years. I was DISMAYED when the author made Nina pregnant in the book prior to this one. There's nothing I hate more than a senseless pregnancy. It brings nothing to the characters or the book and just distracts from what WAS a great series. I don't know if authors think that all women want to read about pregnancies or what. I'm one who doesn't. I liked these action filled stories for what they were, mindless action, death and explosions. They were awesome!
But that all changes with a kid on the way, and I didn't like this book nearly as much because of it. Or perhaps he stopped having good ideas, because for the next book I noted that there's a time for series to end, and with this one, it should have come with book 10.
Beyond all that, this book had religious undertones all through it, and I didn't enjoy that at all either. It just wasn't a fun book for me, and that's what I read these type of books for, the fun. I said in my review of book 12 that I was done with the series, so I just need to be.
Setting = B
Plot = C
Conflict = C
Characters = B
Theme = D
Recommendation: If you've read the first 10 books, then you might like this one. If you hate that Nina is pregnant or hate religious zealots, then skip it. If you haven't read the series, the first few are good if you like non-stop action.
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Title: A Murder in Time
Author: Julie McElwain
Genre: Time Travel / Historical Mystery
Read: 1/24/17
Rating: 4 stars
Review: Received from NetGalley for my honest review
Completed 01/24/17
513 page ebook
I love a good time travel story. Well done time travel stories (like 11/22/63 or the Chronicles of St Mary's series) are probably some of my favorite books. But, for me, the TRAVELING part of the time travel book is what I like. Otherwise, for me, it's just historical. This one fits in that category. She travels once, back in time, and the whole book is set in that time. There's no back and forth, so except for the initial getting there, there's no time travel in this time travel story.
I think the time travel was used in this book so the author could have a smart and worldly woman put where women don't matter, and the only way she could think to do that, was with time travel. In that regard, this book disappointed me.
But looking at this book as a historical mystery instead, I did rather like it. I liked the character, though she was a bit of an idiot with some things, when she was so smart with others. I did like the story and the setting. I liked the other characters pretty well. It was an all around enjoyable book, just not what I like out of my time travel. But as a historical mystery it was quite good.
Setting = A
Plot = B
Conflict = B
Characters = B+
Theme = B+
Recommendation: Yes, if you are fans of Historical Mystery and/or time travel. But if you like traveling back and forth for your time travel, you should to skip this one.
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Title: Field of Graves
Author: J.T. Ellison
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Read: 8/20/16
Rating: 3 stars
Review:
Received from NetGalley for my honest review
Completed 8/20/16
368 page ebook
Though this book is listed as the 8th in the series, it is actually a prequel and gives a look into the characters set before the first book in the series. I've been reading the series for years and this definitely wasn't my favorite book, but it may be a good opener to people who have never read the series, to see if they'd like the characters, though still listed as book 8 on GR, no one would know to read it first.
My main issue with this book is that it focused on a religious fanatic. And just as a personal thing, I hate those types of books. It just wasn't the story for me. The characters were just as good as always and it was good to get back to them before some stuff happened through the series, but just the storyline itself was awful for me. If it had been any other story (without the religious stuff) it could have been a 4 or 5 star book. Still, I will read pretty much anything the author writes because I do enjoy the books overall.
Setting = B
Plot = D
Conflict = D
Characters = B
Theme = F
Recommendation: If you are a fan, and don't mind religious zealots, then go ahead and read it, otherwise, it's a meh book. If you haven't read the series, I do recommend the series on a whole.
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Title: Collecting the Dead
Author: Spencer Kope
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Read: 9/28/16
Rating: 5 stars
Review:
Received from NetGalley for my honest review
Completed 9/28/16
317 page ebook
I really really enjoyed this book. I found the character to be unique and though synesthesia type books have been done before, I think it was either a first for me, or a first exactly like this one. I found the MCs abilities to be rather neat and his personality was quirky and enjoyable. He keeps his abilities a secret so no one really knows why he's so successful.
I enjoyed the whole book, and really am eager to get the next book, which doesn't come out until next year. Booo! If you are looking for a new and unique take on finding killers, I definitely recommend this one. It was rather enjoyable with the unique abilities and a flawed but likable character.
Setting = B
Plot = A
Conflict = B
Characters = A
Theme = A
Recommendation: HIGHLY recommend for mystery fans
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Title: The Delphi Effect
Author: Rysa Walker
Genre: YA Paranormal
Read: 6/28/17
Rating: 5 stars
Review:
Received from NetGalley for my honest review
Completed 6/28/17
379 page ebook
I requested, and received, this book a while before it came out. Then it promptly fell further and further down my TBR pile. I don't know why, I love the author's "Timebound" series, so I figured I would like a new series by her, but I kept putting it off.
When I finally did read it, I kicked myself for putting it off for so long! The blurb doesn't do it justice, as it goes off into directions I wasn't expecting. The book starts off at a run, with the MC Anna trying to convince a man that his dead granddaughter is talking through Anna. The story grabs on to you then, and doesn't let you go, as it goes through some twists and turns with so many different things going on.
The characters were likable and the story was really enjoyable. I've been approved for the next one and I need to make sure to get to it sooner, rather than later!
Setting = B
Plot = A
Conflict = B
Characters = A
Theme = A
Recommendation: HIGHLY recommend for Paranormal fans, even if you aren't a fan of YA. It's very good!
I need to get on top of my NetGalley reviews. I'm so behind, like REALLY behind!! Current Titles (9) ~ to Read & Review
Older than 3 months (91 total) ~ 16 Read, but still needs Reviewed (newest to oldest)
Older than 3 months ~ 75 still to read (newest to oldest)
Posting Format: (view spoiler)
Joining in Dewey's 24 Hour Read-a-Thon (will be reading for full 24 hours)
Will be updating here and at my blog: KaKiJoKoJa
Looking for stuff that fits is most of my fun too! Though unless it's really obscure, I like to have a few things that will fit because I hate planning out things. When I make plans, they usually fall through. Like I had The Key to Extraordinary waiting for when I got to Task 2, but then we hit RtH Chapter 6 and I ended up using George's Secret Key to the Universe instead, so it fit for George too. :)
I'm sorry you aren't at all into it Caly. I was hoping the group like aspects of it would keep your interest. Awesome that you are wanting to get to Ice Station Ashley. Unfortunately, that's not a train. I can see how it looks like one. It's the entrance to the Station. You can see it more clearly on other covers. Sorry that it's still not fitting anywhere. It does fit for part of the Small World "Stay a While" challenge. :)
Everyone got real quiet. :) How is everyone doing with Evo? Anyone through the Adventure Begins yet? Anyone need any Recommendations for anything?
Caly ☯ wrote: "I really hope we can get enough active member to have a team challenge at some point."I hope we do as well. I have a bunch in mind, but we'd need a lot more people. We've stalled out in growth, and only about 50-60 member have actually been staying active. :( But we'll keep going along and hopefully grow somehow.
Oh good! Don't mind me, I just worry about everyone liking all the challenges. :)
I'm sorry you all feel behind. I hope that you are enjoying it though. :) It was created so that readers that read a ton could open up the book, then readers that can't read as fast/much can just enjoy it at a slower pace.
Just in case y'all wanna use my books: (will keep this updated)COMPLETED:
Book with a Main Character named George
Book with a Main Character named Ron
Book with a Main Character named Ginny
Book by an author with the initials H.G.
Book by an Author with the initials D.M.
Currently Reading:
Hey Danielle, I ended up finishing A Cold Dark Place and gave it a two. I hate liars, so I really can't get into the book because he was just lying to her the whole time and of course when it came out, she was fine with it (because they always are). It was a bit different, with the lies, but still. Just not enjoyable for me.
Yes, you can: use the same task for Randemonium & Hogwarts.Referencing the question she asked to what I answered, she was asking about two different Randemoniums, the first task, and the Waiting for Evo task. So no, the same book can't be used for those, because they are both Randemonium challenges.
The Randemonium "Waiting for Evo" challenge is different than "Evo" itself, so yes, you can use the same book for both.
I think that's what you're asking?
Yay for finding a new-to-you library! :DAngie and I had a conversation once about how we always tend to find things for challenges when we aren't specifically looking for it, like after. Yesterday I started a book and found out it has a Percy in it. He's not the MC (darn) but he's in the book (til he gets dead). LOL!!
