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Thanks. I corrected it.

The 2016 Series Challenge is up:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Series Explorers

Netanella
Leona
Dina
Keda
Danielle The Book Huntress
Teresa
Phe
Katie
Futszak
Nareh
Andrea
Angie

2016 DHASG My Favorite Genres and Sub-Genres Challenge

Introduction: We're book lovers, right? We'll let's spend the year exploring our book love. Our series challenge last year was fun, so let's keep it going but kick it up a notch. This year, you can also spell out sub-genres!

Duration: 1 January to 31 December, 2016

Rules:

1. Any DHASG member can sign up at any time during the year.
2. A book can only be used once, and it must be part of a completed or ongoing series. No standalones can be used in this challenge. Books must be read between January 1 and December 31st, 2016.
3 You may only use the author’s name, book name and series name once, but you can use multiple books by the same author or from the same series, so long as you use a different means to spell it out.
4. Members can change the books they read for the challenge and the level they choose at any time during the challenge.
5. Books read for other challenges can overlap with this challenge. Rereads are acceptable.
6. Sign up for the challenge at any time after the thread opens, and post your stats regularly and your final stats when finished.

Levels:

1. Series Cray-Cray: Read 22 books or more.
2. Series A Go-Go: Read 14-20 books or more.
3. Series-Polluza: Read a minimum of 13 books.

Instructions:

List at least one of your favorite genres and one of your favorite romance sub-genres and read books in a series to spell it out (Minimum of 13 letters/13 books). If you select different romance genres, you only have to spell ‘romance’ once. If you use ’fiction’, you only have to spell it once. You don’t have to count the “&” or punctuation like commas or hyphens. You may use the following for your spelling:

1. First, middle or last name of author.
2. First letter of first word of book title.
3. First Letter of First or Last Name or nickname of recurring character in the series.
4. If using X, the X doesn't have to be the first letter of the word, so long as it fits the other qualifications.
5. Series name.
6. “A”, “And” and “The” do not count as words.

Some potential genres:

1. Historical Romance
2. Contemporary Romance
3. Romantic Suspense
4. Horror Fiction
5. Erotic Fiction or Erotic Romance (as opposed to Erotica)
6. Historical Mysteries
7. Cozy Mysteries
8. Literary Fiction
9. Classic Fiction
10. Crime Drama
11. Category Romance
12. Graphic Novels
13. Non-Fiction
14. Language Primers

Here is a list of romance subgenres, but if you can think of others, that's great too. Make sure they don't overlap:

http://www.romancewiki.com/Romance_Su...

An Example: My favorite genres and subgenres are Historical Romance & Interracial. (27 letters)

H
I
S
T
O
R
I
C
A
L

R
O
M
A
N
C
E

&

I
N
T
E
R
C
I
A
L

(27 letters)

Any Questions??

Andrea wrote: "I swore I wouldn't do any challenges in 2016 (no time for anything as it is) but this thread already has me salivating! lol. Oh well, I'll be reading anyway so I might as well use it for a challeng..."

That's right!

The 2016 challenge is up. You can't sign up until January 1st though, but you can post what you think you'll sign up for here.

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Challenge Jedis

Leona
PepperP0t--150 books
Andrea--30 books
AngelaW--160 books
Phe--35 books
Pamela--50 books
Danielle TBH--100 books
Netanella--100 books
Natalie--25 books
Laura--100 books
Nicole--25 books
Charlotte--60 books
Kimberly--100 books
Lege--65 books
Jennifer--100 books
Nicole--75 books
Martel--100 books
Cindi--150 books
Kristina--60 books
Katie--20 books
Kay--50 books
Kim--50 books
Treece--30 books
Futszak--50 books
Brenda--25 books
Raine--516 books
Ember--20 books

2016 is here and there are new Dangerous Hero horizons to explore. The time has come to set your reading goals for how many dangerous heroes you can invite into your life this year.

It's up to you to define what you consider a dangerous hero. You're doing the challenge, so set it according to your own reading. You're on the honor system for this challenge. You can use any character from the book to count for this challenge, even side characters and villains.

If you're new to the challenge, welcome aboard. Set a goal that you think will challenge you at least a little. You can always go down or up if you need to adjust the level.

If you've participated in the past, try to go even higher this year.

Rules:


1. Any DHASG member can participate in the challenge.
2. Sign up for the challenge on this thread but also on the main group page (you can't sign up on the main challenge page until January 1st):
https://www.goodreads.com/challenges/...
It will allow you to create a shelf to log your reading.
3. Books must be read between January 1st and December 31st, 2016.
4. A book may only be read/counted once for the challenge.
5. This challenge is dedicated to male/hero characters. This is a dangerous hero group so the yearly challenges are associated with the male dangerous heroes. While we love kickbutt heroines, that is not the theme of this group.

Way to Go, ladies. I just got my challenge done as well.

Welcome, Lelena!

Maqluba wrote: "I love a good realistic assassin hero so I gotta throw in Lindsay Buroker 's The Emperor's Edge series. My all time favorite assassin Sicarius <3"

Oh great. I have that on my Kindle.

Natalie wrote: "February sounds good to me at the moment!"

Ok, great!

I'll look for your review, Natalie.

That sounds great. I would love to. Maybe in February?

Andrea wrote: "Not sure I have ever read a madder, badder guy than Zeus in On the Edge of Love
Fabulous book."

I might give it a read. I'm a little squeamish about erotica though.

Kim wrote: "Danielle, I'm not good at giving synopses of books because I give too much away. I'll try to keep them short. :-)

The Darkness Series - Heroine is able to see shadow people that one else can see. ..."

Those all sound interesting. Thanks, Kim. I'll check into them!

Andrea wrote: "As encouragement to branch out, we could do a challenge where we had to read a book from some different sub-genres of romance. Here's a good list: http://www.romancewiki.com/Romance_Su..."

That's a great idea. Thanks, Andrea!

You know, Katie, I'm sort of running out of new PNR series. I would love to catch a new author who is writing what I like to read. I don't like erotica, so I don't pick up any of those series.

I did like The Unleashing, so I'll probably keep reading those.

I love what I've read of the Elder Races series.

Kim wrote: "The Darkness series by K.F. Breene
The Fever series by Karen Marie Moning
The Fae Chronicles by Amelia Hutchins
The King Triology by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
The Dominion series by S.E. Lund
Marko Dele..."

Those are all new to me except for the Fever series. Tell me about the other series you listed, if you don't mind, Kim.

Netanella wrote: "Holy Schnickey, Batman, those are some tough categories! I have to say, Danielle, this group has one of the toughest monthly challenges I participate in.

I'm in!"

I'm sorry I made it tough. I was trying to keep things interesting. I hope it goes well for you all!