Dev’s Comments (group member since Sep 09, 2017)

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

Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997 by Alvin Orloff
Date: 10/15
Pages: 284
Sin: Sloth
Criteria: Cover is 55.3% Anakiwa (Blue)

i feel like i'm moving slowly this week, but hopefully will be able to get to 7 books by the end. definitely don't be expecting 10 like last week though ;)

i'm currently slogging my way through the audio of Kraken which i would have 100% dropped if not for tower teams. kind of almost dreading this one too even though i'm also excited but just since it's so long lol. oh well, at least it's a book i know i like and maybe i can even turn the speed up to 2x, or 1.75x at the very least ;)

when do you guys think you will start this? i might start tomorrow or i might wait to let you guys get ahead lol

The Tyrant's Tomb by Rick Riordan
Date: 10/14
Pages: 439
Sin: Sloth
Criteria: cover is 62.0 %Licorice (Blue) according to tineye

haha i wasn't even really expecting sex because honestly about 98% of the time sex scenes that are crammed into books like this are just super awkward IMO but i was wanting a bit more 'romance' i guess

i also tried it on audio and wasn't really feeling it. maybe it would have been different in print but i ultimately decided to drop it because i had just read aurora rising and really didn't like it and illuminae kind of seemed like it was going to be a similar mood. i think i just like kristoff writing solo and not when he's writing with kaufman because their books they write together seem a bit too YA-ish for me. i mean i do read YA but there are definitely ones that seem 'younger' than others.

also i think you have to do at least half in which case you would be good, but i'm not 100% on that

i feel like the market team put ~lesbian necromancers in space~ to get people to read it and apparently it worked to make us read but also made us all upset because it didn't necessarily follow through so you know maybe not the BEST idea to mis-market your book to get more readers. I have no issues with how gideon was written because i get that romance was just not the point of this story, but yeah it was definitely misleading from the blurb [which i know the author doesn't really have control over]

i started it but dropped it after a few chapters, but the audio version is longer than 3 hours so you should be good

haha i have literally no idea, tineye is weird

mine shows only 34% violet

#ded0de 34.8 %Snuff (Violet)
#36261c 17.3 %Bistre (Brown)
#4d6288 14.1 %Waikawa Grey (Blue)
#614f42 10.0 %Quincy (Brown)
#a26a3a 6.4 %Bourbon (Brown)
#9a9abc 5.4 %Logan (Blue)
#6a3f21 5.2 %Semi-Sweet Chocolate (Brown)
#a08980 3.6 %Hemp (Brown)
#3c316e 2.3 %Paris M (Blue)

and i would not say it looks particularly purple to the eye either but if someone else gets your same result on tineye i guess it could work? for reference i am pasting the direct enlarged image url from goodreads into tineye so you are using the small image or doing some kind of screenshot i think that gives weirder / more inaccurate results

if we've got a tineye that says over 50% yellow then i think we could go with that, although i also don't think they would dock us for calling it brown. is it a bingo if it's yellow or something?

i would personally call it brown/tan

tineye calls the background color yellow although not enough to be majority yellow [47.9%]. the slightly darker color of what i would call brown they call grey [25.2%]. but if we agree that both of those are actually brown [which is how i would classify it with my eyes alone] then i guess we could use it for wrath.

https://labs.tineye.com/color/6f8dfba...

i think if i read instead of listened there is a chance i would have given it 3 instead of 2 but definitely not 5, although i can see how it could be a 5 star read for some people

i just logged in my last one as well

Salvaged by Madeleine Roux
Date: 10/13
Pages: 352
Sin: Lust
Criteria: New Release [10/15/19]

Alice by Christina Henry
Date: 10/13
Pages: 291
Sin: Wrath
Criteria: cover is 62.1% brown

i was also confused why many people kept referring it it as YA. i mean it's our adult book of the month and most of the characters are adults [or at least i thought they were] and it did not read like a [typical] YA book at all so i'm wondering where the idea that it is YA is coming from.

The Causality Loop by Wendy Nikel
Date: 10/12
Pages: 111 per Amazon
Sin: Wrath
Criteria: cover is 82.8% brown with all browns added together on tineye

@Vicki i think your book is good now because it shows 'read twice' on the review and when you click on the tower teams shelf it shows it there as being read today and then also the previous date. stuff like that is why i almost always just shelve the default edition because otherwise i end up with duplicates whenever i try to go back and edit a review or do a reread because goodreads will not automatically switch to the edition you have already read but seems to think you want to shelve two different editions of the same book!