Audrey Jane’s Comments (group member since May 27, 2014)

Audrey Jane’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

@ Berit, what I gathered from the desription is that each team has a 16 hours timeframe to make their move.

To follow Shelby's example, for the rest of October I have:
2 - 2nd in series
1 - 4th in series
1 - 8th in series
1 - 9th in series

Great team! I like the 2 days of reprieve the mods planned here.
I'm curious to find out the quest/monster cards we will get for our team.
With the solo NRPG I remember wanting to confront the monsters as soon as possible to gain experience points asap but I struggled through it (weapon level too low). Ideally you would be able to finish off the monster in one move. Potions are useful during battles.

I'm currently reading a book that is 2nd in the series.

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan L. Howard

A charmingly gothic, fiendishly funny Faustian tale about a brilliant scientist who makes a deal with the Devil, twice.

Johannes Cabal sold his soul years ago in order to learn the laws of necromancy. Now he wants it back. Amused and slightly bored, Satan proposes a little wager: Johannes has to persuade one hundred people to sign over their souls or he will be damned forever. This time for real. Accepting the bargain, Jonathan is given one calendar year and a traveling carnival to complete his task. With little time to waste, Johannes raises a motley crew from the dead and enlists his brother, Horst, a charismatic vampire to help him run his nefarious road show, resulting in mayhem at every turn.

Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry

New york, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night-soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs.

Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of the Church of Marvels, their mother's spectacular Coney Island sideshow. But the Church has burnt to the ground, their mother dead in its ashes. Now Belle, the family's star, has vanished into the bowels of Manhattan, leaving Odile alone and desperate to find her.

A young woman named Alphie awakens to find herself trapped across the river in Blackwell's Lunatic Asylum–sure that her imprisonment is a ruse by her husband's vile, overbearing mother. On the ward she meets another young woman of ethereal beauty who does not speak, a girl with an extraordinary talent that might save them both.

As these strangers' lives become increasingly connected, their stories and secrets unfold. Moving from the Coney Island seashore to the tenement-studded streets of the Lower East Side, a spectacular human circus to a brutal, terrifying asylum, Church of Marvels takes readers back to turn-of-the-century New York–a city of hardship and dreams, love and loneliness, hope and danger. In magnetic, luminous prose, Leslie Parry offers a richly atmospheric vision of the past in a narrative of astonishing beauty, full of wondrous enchantments, a marvelous debut that will leave readers breathless.

I checked my shelves but can't find anything to build off. Can we still use a bonus, if we still have one of those to discard the title relay?

Completion post - Labours of Bookules

by Patricia Briggs
Read: 02/10
Rating: ★★★
Bonus 18 - Task: Title relay 4th book

Completion post - Labours of Bookules

by Ilona Andrews
Read: 30/09
Rating: ★★★★
Bonus - Task: Cauterize the wounds: Read a book with fire or flames on the cover

Good evening Mammoths. A lot of new bonuses today !
I will close the month with my two current reads: and .

If the task 'Read a book with fire or flames on the cover' is still open, Magic Binds will work. There are candles and flames on the cover.

Same here, Sally! The idea is original and the mods are very creative but a bit overwhelming as well. I started a thread at the same time Novel RPG challenge started but I forget to track, in the end I couldn't keep up. I try to update and clean it once in a while.

Btw team, in case you missed it, the mods posted an update regarding our bonuses: HERE

After my PC took 2 hours to update windows 10 without my consent, I can finally check in on GR. This is happening almost every week lately.
Wanted to check on our bonuses. Doing great Mammoths :) I'm going back to read a bit more. Good night

Finished my book for the treasure hunter task.
Agreed, I like this challenge and this team. Additionally I've been reading great books :)
I will read Magic Binds next since I can't wait any longer. But first, I'm off to bed now.

Take good care of you, Jennifer.

Labours of Bookules

--> Labour 8 - Find the Jade Key - Read a book about a treasure hunter.

Finished Cybele's Secret by Juliet Marillier
Date: 24/09
Rating: ★★★★
How it works: The MC's are traders/merchants/pirates looking for a rare artefact (Cybele's gift). They are competing against each other for that particular ancient treasure

If no one finishes a book that fits before, I will cover 'Read a book about a treasure hunter' with (it's obvious from the description on the main page).

Finished for our 6th stop 'character is a doctor'.
Date: 18/09
Rating: 3 stars

I'm more than ready! It's almost time, just a few hours sleep and I can finally buy this jewel :-)
Will post my thoughts here. Curious to read others opinions about this series. I hope we get to read more about Derek, Ascanio, Hugh and my personal favourite Desandra. I'm wondering if I'm forgetting someone

@ Sam: Courage! It's frustrating when books turn out like that, I hope your next read is a better one.

Berit wrote: "I have Love Letters From the Dead, Anyone have a dead title?"

Berit, I'm currently reading Dead Heat if that helps? Or is 'heat' too difficult to link?

Finished my bonus book.

I agree with the rest of the team regarding their feedback on Wobble. Personally I like team challenges and especially longer ones (like Tower Teams) because it motivates me to read and try to reduce the TBR pile ;) Longer challenges also allow me to contribute as much as I can (even if I have one week off for example).

Labours of Bookules - Bonus 3

--> Bonus 3 task 3 - Read a book that starts with A

Finished Ashes in the Wind by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Date: 18/09
Rating: ★★★

Finished Gentle Warrior for the main labours on the read thread, I've put it down for MC is a knight task in the planning spreadsheet.
Currently working my way through some historical romances I've bought a couple of months ago. I can't recommend the one I just read though.

I can help with our 3rd bonus: I'm reading Ashes in the Wind - Title starts with A