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

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

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Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror by Chris Priestley

date started: 7/12/19
date finished: 7/13/19
pages: 238
genre: No

U: Uncle [title]
M: Montague [character LN]
B: Maud Briggs [character]
E: Edgar [character]
R: Robert [character]

oh my god no. i'm kind of afraid to see what that is but ...link? lol

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Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me by Carrie Ann DiRisio

date started: 7/11/19
date finished: 7/12/19
pages: 352
genre: No

B: Broody McHottiepants [character]
M: Broody McHottiepants [character]

i mean i definitely ship cal and robin in a weird way so yeah i think cal is a bit bicurous lol. but seriously ...the only reason you need to bring up how straight you are all the time is BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT THAT STRAIGHT ;)

@Cathy the next one is kind of a detour from the whole grimm plot, but we get niko pov again! then book nine is the continuation of the grimm thing and yeah he definitely gets more auphe in it and i'm like yesssss [rubs hands together gleefully] lol

@Claudia usually i am not much for very small children but child!Cal absolutely kills me because he's such a little asshole lol there's more of younger cal in the next book but i think he's like 11 at that point? still 'adorable' though ;)

and i didn't really connect kalakos with sereglio but that is an interesting parallel. although really i had no idea with her and with kalakos i didn't necessarily think his betrayal was going to be that big but i figured there was SOMETHING up with him.

and i have no idea how george's mind wiping powers work lol. it's never mentioned again before or after so i guess we just have to chalk it up to 'because rob said so that's why'. maybe she was planning on doing something else with it later in the series but it got cancelled before she got there?

woo! that mini-challenge was fun but i'm glad to go back to a regular spell it out for this week. i wonder if there will be another 'surprise' before the challenge is over lol

haha re: the person behind it at all



but yeah so glad that cal is (view spoiler)[cured now! him not being able to gate the whole book was awful. i mean i get that she HAS to put limitations on him or else he would just be able to murder anyone they need to fight in like 2 seconds and there would be no book, but still lol (hide spoiler)]

I'm done for this week

@Cathy re: George (view spoiler)[I didn't really mind her in general, I more just didn't like her and Cal together. but even I would have been mad if she had been killed like that because talk about stupid and pointless! (hide spoiler)]

just wanted to say that i edited in some pages/sentences for the words for the two books that i posted earlier today over in the books read thread

also the 'explanation' about george was not in this book. i'm not sure if it's actually brought up in the next one or if you guys were just supposed to get it in this book because of context clues but i'll put the explanation under the cut so you can decide if you want to click

(view spoiler)[he didn't actually kill her, she just made him think that he did. that's why his memories were all hazy and why he heard her still moving around in the classroom and why he couldn't remember getting outside because he went back in the classroom and she had to wipe his memory AGAIN and then when he saw her in the window it was actually her and not her ghost or whatever. she has a small cameo in one of the other books but i can't remember if it's the next one or the 9th one so i thought that i would just mention it here. so yeah, still not super happy with thurman's pattern of writing her female characters out to the sidelines, but at least she didn't fridge her to motivate cal so i'll call that a general positive lol (hide spoiler)]

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Doubletake by Rob Thurman

date started: 7/9/19
date finished: 7/11/19
pages: 339
genre: No

I: Ishiah [character]
G: Robin Goodfellow [character]

21 standard word options: behead, blood, bone, cabin, cat, chills, creepy, dark, death, devil, gore, hide, horror, jack the ripper, jason, jaws, knife, maim, monster, night, poison, rollercoaster, scream, serial killer, shadows, sofa, spider, woods

i can look up some page numbers when i get home, probably good to use jason for this one since i think it was him referencing the friday the 13th movies at the beginning of the book

word: Jason
location 190
Hadn’t they ever watched Friday the 13th? Jason? Hockey masks? Machetes?

another of my favorite moments including niko, promise, and her new mummy cats (view spoiler)[is when cal makes the joke that the cats watch them during sex and niko is like 'how did you know that'. (hide spoiler)] kills me every time.

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Ishtar's Legacy by Rachel Pudelek

date started: 7/10/19
date finished: 7/11/19
pages: 297
genre: No

B: Brice [character]
E: Eonza [character]
I: Ishtar [title]
G: Marcus Garcia [character]

23 standard word options: blood, bone, cabin, chills, creepy, dark, death, devil, fright, hide, invoke, knife, monster, night, nightmare, poison, scream, shadows, spider, supernatural, terror, witch, woods

i'm at work now but i can get you some page numbers for a few of them when i get home tonight

chills, page 211
The woman’s cries from the other side of the door in the underground hallway John and the two Hunters had escorted me through tonight gave me chills just thinking about, just imagining the young woman’s terror and possible future

fright, page 50
I held a fondness for Elaine and Sarah; the two who accepted my bark with awe rather than fright at a time when even I feared my inner huldra.

i found four books on my tbr with U title or series name, although two of them are kindle freebies so i'm unsure whether i will read those past the first few chapters lol but at least we've got a few options.

i was trying to think of U characters and all i could come up with was umbridge from harry potter, and although it would be good for the points and it is my favorite from the series, i don't think i can JUST read the fifth book by itself lol, my low level OCD would not allow it ;)

i think after i finish my two current books i am going to move onto books for next week, unless we need another option for one of the tricky words or another i or something [although both of my current ones work for i].

juuuust wanted to say that i am still around but i literally cannot comment on that topic because me explaining would be spoilers -_-;

i think i got through chapter 11 today ...somewhere around there. gotta say one of my favorite promise moments in the series is when (view spoiler)[she runs in all ready to pretend to be aphrodite and then just goes 'mary mother of god!' #amazing (hide spoiler)]

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Wilder Girls by Rory Power

date started: 7/9/19
date finished: 7/10/19
pages: 368
genre: Yes

B: Byatt [character]
E: Emmy [character]

19 standard word options: blood, bone, cat, chill, conjure, dark, death, gravestone, hide, horror, jaws, knife, night, nightmare, poison, scream, shadows, terror, woods

these will probably be more along the lines of how the words are 'supposed' to appear in the book since it fits betters genre-wise. again if you could just let me know which ones you want page numbers / sentences for then i can look when i get home

U's are tricky but at least there's no repeating letters, that should help some. don't think i will be much help with shifters as i usually avoid books with werewolf main characters like the plague because i can't deal with all the ~alpha male~ crap lol

ok that's fine. is it because they are like a name of a group and then someone's name? because i thought that as long as it was in the book it was fair to use.

cliff-hanger - pg 198 - A street band called Pookiesnackenburger and a comedy sketch group called Cliffhanger performed huge and highly popular street shows at the Edinburgh Fringe every day at one p.m.

gore - pg 199 - Together we went on to set up the Official Touring Company of Alpha Centauri, performing comedy shows with two other students: Helen Caldwell and Neil Gore—including a very low-budget version of Ben-Hur,

jason - pg 364 - Jason Booher mentioned in acknowledgements