Heli’s Comments (group member since Jan 23, 2015)

Heli’s comments from the Nothing But Reading Challenges group.

Completion post


Book: Noidan veli
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Date: 7/10/18
Pages: 240

C - Chrestomanci
D - author
E - Eric
G - Gwendolen
M - Michael
N - title
R - Roger

Completion post


Book: Tyttö ja rotta
Author: Jari Järvelä
Date: 7/9/18
Pages: 249

A - Aljosha
M - Metro (character)
S - Simon
T - title
V - Vorkuta (character)

Completion post


Book: Dear Bridget, I Want You
Auhtos: Penelope Ward and Vi Keeland
Date: 7/8/18
Pages: 255

B - Bridget
C - Calliope
D - title
P & W - author
S - Simon
V & K - author

Completion post


Book: The Killer Next Door
Author: Alex Marwood
Date: 7/8/18
Pages: 387

A - author
C - Collette
H - Hossein
K - title
L - place London
M - author
R - Roy
T - Thomas
V - Vesta

Completion post


Book: Made You Up
Author: Francesca Zappia
Date: 7/2/18
Pages: 448

A - Alex
C - Celia
F - author
H - place Hannibal's Rest
M - title
T - Tucker
Z - author

Hi guys!

I'll be taking a short holiday trip to Gdansk with my hubby. We will be back on Saturday. I'll update my books when we come back.

Completion Post


Book: Minä näen sinut
Author: Clare Mackintosh
Date: 7/2/18
Pages: 413

C - author
K - Kelly
L - Lucinda
M - title
N - Nick
S - Simon
Z - Zoe

Completion post


Book: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Author: Philip K. Dick
Date: 6/28/18
Pages: 214

A - Ann
D - title
H - Harry
I - Iran (character)
L - Luba Luft
P - author
R - Rick

Completion post


Bokk: To Kill a Kingdom
Author: Alexandra Christo
Date: 6/26/18
Pages: 346

Buddy Read: yes
Discussion
Posts 23, 30, 32 and 41

A - author
C - author
E - Elian
K - Kye
M - Madrid (character)
L - Lira
T - title

Completion post


Book: Egomaniac
Author: Vi Keeland
Date: 6/26/18
Pages: 322

A - Alexa
D - Drew
E- title
K - author
R - Roman
V - author

Completion post


Book: Lumoavien mausteiden kahvila
Author: Marsha Mehran
Date: 6/25/18
Pages: 303

B - Bahar
D - Dervla
E - Estelle
F - Fiona
L - title
M - author
P - Padraig
T - Thomas

It looks like I won't be finishing this today, but tomorrow. I'm reading other books on the side.

I'm slowly warming up to the story. Elian and Lira have great chemistry and I enjoy their conversations.

I'm really looking forward to the ending. It must be something spectacular.

✿ Claire ✿ ~ Foxgard wrote: "Heli wrote: "Tina wrote: "Oh no I missed this some how!
I started this in May and then saw this thread but I think I forgot to check in. I was actually enjoying it

Are you still reading this Heli?..."

I have 100 pages left. I can do this!

Completion post


Book: The Iron Trial
Author: Holly Black
Date: 6/23/18
Pages: 295

A - Alastair
B - author
C - Call
D - Drew
H - author
R - Master Rufus
T - Tamara

Tina wrote: "Oh no I missed this some how!
I started this in May and then saw this thread but I think I forgot to check in. I was actually enjoying it

Are you still reading this Heli?

(Team Tonks)"

I'm still reading. I should be done by tomorrow. I don't like the writing style. That is why I have such a hard time reading it. I feel like I'm grinding through it.

Joining in from team Newt Scamander

I've reached chapter 10 now. It's a really slow start for me at least. Every time I try to read ahead I get really sleepy and end up taking a nap instead.

I don't know what to think of Lira or Elian yet. At the moment I dislike them both.

Update to post #278 my completion post of Gemina

Participated in BR for extra points
Gemina buddy read

Posts 16, 23, 24, 25

Paula wrote: "Ok, I'm really behind, I'm on page 44, but [spoilers removed]

I too expected to see Kady and Ezra in this book, but as I read Illuminae so long ago, is good to see I don't need to remember EVERYTH..."

I did not understand at first what happened there. (the spoilers tag) But luckily it was explained later.

Karen ⊰✿ wrote: "Snowtulip wrote: "Annalisa wrote: "I keep hearing that the audiobooks for this series are amazing. Having read Illuminae the experience seemed very visual and I wonder how that is translated into t..."

It was not tedious at all. And they read those briefing notes too. And the voice that read them was always the same.

Annalisa wrote: "I keep hearing that the audiobooks for this series are amazing. Having read Illuminae the experience seemed very visual and I wonder how that is translated into the audio."

There was a full cast reading the book. Every character had his/her own voice, which I liked a lot.
It was hard to read Gemina sometimes just for the texts being different color. When the text was white I had to switch to black background and vice versa.