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

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

@mods can we get a thread for starting 10/15

i was thinking about the police officer more the other day and i'm actually kind of confused how he could like ...see / process everything that was happening i guess? i mean we see people like marcia who have very little fae blood need fairy ointment for their eyes to see certain parts of faerie but here's a fully human guy who apparently had no problem seeing things. maybe it's different when you are actually in a fae world instead of in the mortal realm? just a little inconsistency i never picked up on before

haha i know, it's like instead of making many tiny mistakes he saves it all up to make one HUGE one

i can do Nyota's Tyrannosaur for N [it has to be more than 160 pages right? barely made it lol] and i've probably got more if i look around. i haven't even made my november tbr yet.

i haven't done wheelathon before so a few questions 1. we can spell the word more than once right? and 2. i thought they mentioned something about reading a book with a cover that is mostly the same as the color on the wheel?

oh and my shelf is here [i renamed it since i submitted it on the sign up form so idk if that matters?]

sooooooooo does this mean we can start checking in :D

@Geri i was wondering that about tybalt too. i mean if we're going with the whole 'cats have nine lives' thing then he's gone through a few just in the past couple of years and he's around 500 years old i think. although general proximity to toby probably makes him die more often lol

also agree with what you said about ilona andrews. i only read the first kate daniels book and i'll probably never read another book by her again because i hated what werelion dude so much. like at one point he literally threw her into a wall and i'm just like ???? i'm supposed to be okay with that ???? no thanks. on this reread i was a bit more bothered by how much of a dick tybalt was at the beginning of the series but at least he was never physically violent with toby. it sucks that the bar is apparently that low but welcome to urban fantasy i guess lol

@Cathy i was also surprised that they left the officer behind because i did not remember that. i don't remember if they get him out somehow later or not but yeah surely etienne could have grabbed him or something.

and i think toby can take the fae completely out of anyone's blood no matter what kind of faerie they are, if that's what you were asking.

i agree that rand is a weird name for him. although i guess tybalt is also technically a weird name but it just fits him really well so it's like you don't notice so much.

aaaand done!

not that anything riordan is doing is like ...okay or anything but i do think she has a point in that they're always going on about 'well oberon said this' blah blah but he ran out on them centuries ago so like ...are they ever going to pull themselves out of his ass lol. i'm wondering if the series is building up to the point where toby is literally going to go find oberon and bring him back but sometimes i think they might be better off without him if they could only like get their shit together and take some responsibility. although that doesn't seem to be most of the purebloods' strong suite so it's probably too much to ask for.

also if there's two things i love it is 1. toby rescuing tybalt and 2. her carrying him around in her coat in cat form. i don't know why but it's just so adorable. so glad they're finally together!

also there's two shorts that come between this book and the next one. no sooner met is free on the author's website but rat catcher is part of an anthology [however you can still find it with some google-fu lol]. i definitely recommend both of them as the free one is toby/tybalt focused and then the other one is background info on tybalt. i'll probably be re-reading those soon.

haha i know, it's been awhile since i've seen it so i'm definitely gonna have to give it a rewatch as well

i'm working on finishing up the book this morning and tybalt just made her ham and cheese sandwiches with steak sauce and STRAWBERRY JAM AGAIN. what is with these people???? i guess one or the other i could see, but not together. i'm starting to think seanan just has some weird strawberry jam sandwich preferences and she's pushing it off onto her characters.

@Michelle and Jammin Jenny - looks like we're together again!

also thank you mods for doing more point breakdowns for different length books. I very rarely read books over 500 pages [although I try to get through a few for things like this!] so I was like oh nooo lol

Yeah Tybalt 'courting' Toby is just so great because he's so proper and she's just ...Toby. They're adorable though.

I started reading My Best Friend's Exorcism so I'll probably wait to finish this tomorrow.

i also read up through chapter 18 and UGH, MY SHIPPER HEART! IT'S TOO MUCH! i'm glad we're finally at this point in the series though because i've just been sitting here waiting and trying not to say anything about it even though i think most people saw it coming lol but toby and tybalt are one of my favorite book couples and seanan is one of the few authors who i think writes good M/F relationships where the guy isn't a douchebag [which unfortunately still seems to be all the rage these days].

i read chapters 1-9 today

whenever i start these it always takes me awhile to remember which book is which. like for the first chapter i thought 'oh good we're at the goblin fruit one' but nope, it's actually the teleporting changeling one lol

also it's such a minor thing but i think one of my favorite moments in the whole series is when they go to the luidaeg's house and she doesn't have time to 'get ready for company' and it's revealed that she's been purposely making it look messy to make herself seem scarier the entire time XD i love her so much and that's just so good.

haha if there's one thing toby can always do it's escalate the amount of mortal peril she's in

who else kind of forgot all about this in the excitement with the new challenge coming up lol i can probably still start later today though

Aaaaaand it looks like I've gotta make a third post. Definitely need to reserve a few spots next year.

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August
[001] Giant Days Vol. 8 by John Allison
[002] Judas by Jeff Loveness
[003] The Cursebreaker Countess by Sasha L. Miller
[004] Under the Midnight Sun by Lore Graham
[005] Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
[006] Gods and Heroes Mythology Around the World by Korwin Briggs
[007] Eidolon by E.S. Yu
[008] City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab
[009] Catwoman: Soulstealer by Sarah J. Maas
[010] The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars Part Three by Michael Dante DiMartino
[011] Seafire by Natalie C. Parker
[012] X-Men: Gold Annual #2 by Seanan McGuire
[013] Black Cloud Vol. 2: No Return by Jason Latour
[014] Jivaja by Venessa M. Giunta
[015] Sapphic in the Shadows: A 1920s New York Mystery: Lesbian Mystery Series 1, E01-20 by Leanna Headley
[016] Grail of the Grimoire by J.S. Sterling

September
[001] SLAM!: The Next Jam by Pamela Ribon
[002] Black Women Who Dared by Naomi M. Moyer
[003] Open Earth by Sarah Mirk
[004] I Hate Fairyland, Vol. 4: Sadly Never After by Skottie Young
[005] Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven by Marjorie M. Liu
[006] Perdy Volume 1 by Kickliy
[007] Dieux et déesses de la mythologie grecque by Françoise Rachmuhl
[008] Midnight Reynolds and the Agency of Spectral Protection by Catherine Holt
[009] Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill
[010] Night and Silence by Seanan McGuire
[011] Suffer a Sea-Change by Seanan McGuire
[012] Gnarled Hollow by Charlotte Greene
[013] Skyward Volume 1: My Low-G Life by Joe Henderson
[014] Attack of the 50 Foot Wallflower by Christian McKay Heidicker
[015] Mother of Invention by Rivqa Rafael
[016] To Make Monsters Out of Girls by Amanda Lovelace
[017] Vengeful by V.E. Schwab
[018] The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White
[019] A Treason of Truths by Ada Harper
[020] Vault of Frankenstein: 200 Years of the World's Most Famous Monster by Paul Ruditis
[021] We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
[022] The Golden Age - Volume 1, Part 1 by Cyril Pedrosa
[023] Inimical by Genevieve Iseult Eldredge

October
[001] Aquicorn Cove by Katie O'Neill
[002] Isola Volume 1 by Brenden Fletcher
[003] Frankenstein by Junji Ito
[004] The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee
[005] The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 7: Mothering Invention by Kieron Gillen
[006] Hellicious Tp Vol 1 by Mina Elwell
[007] Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand
[008] The Gravediggers Union, Vol. 2 by Wes Craig
[009] The Gentleman’s Guide to Getting Lucky by Mackenzi Lee
[010] 9 From the Nine Worlds by Rick Riordan
[011] Kamo - Pakt mit der Geisterwelt 02 by Ban Zarbo
[012] Fraternity by Juan Díaz Canales
[013] In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard
[014] Teen Trailblazers: 30 Fearless Girls Who Changed the World Before They Were 20 by Jennifer Calvert
[015] Dark Rainbow, Anthology of Queer Erotic Horror by Andrew Robertson
[016] Creatures: The Legacy of Frankenstein: The Legacy of Frankenstein by Emma Newman
[017] Hark! the Herald Angels Scream: An Anthology by Christopher Golden
[018] Blood Communion by Anne Rice
[019] Heart of Ice by Lisa Edmonds
[020] The Boneless Mercies by April Genevieve Tucholke
[021] At Galactic Central by Kate MacLeod
[022] The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine by Justin and Sydnee McElroy
[023] Sif and the Dwarfs' Treasures by Joan Holub
[024] Lumberjanes: The Good Egg by Mariko Tamaki
[025] History Vs Women: The Defiant Lives That They Don't Want You to Know by Anita Sarkeesian

November
[001] The Dream of The Butterfly Vol 2: Dreaming a Revolution by Richard Marazano
[002] 101 Awesome Women Who Changed Our World by Julia Adams
[003] Maestros, Vol. 1 by Steve Skroce
[004] Mirenda Volume 1 by Grim Wilkins
[005] The Black Bull of Norroway by Cat Seaton
[006] Creatures of Will and Temper by Molly Tanzer
[007] Watersnakes by Antonio Sandoval
[008] Runebreaker by Alex R. Kahler
[009] She Changed the World: First Achievements by Women, Told in Their Own Words by The Editors of TIME for Kids
[010] How We Sell Our Souls by Emilie Lucadamo
[011] Santa is a Vampire by Damian Serbu
[012] Archenemies by Marissa Meyer

December
[001] Lumberjanes, Vol. 10: Parents' Day by Shannon Watters
[002] Kingdom of Needle and Bone by Mira Grant
[003] Rick and Morty, Vol. 8 by Kyle Starks
[004] The Hellblazer Vol. 4: The Good Old Days by Tim Seeley
[005] Trish Trash #3 by Jessica Abel
[006] Merry Men by Robert Rodi
[007] Paper Girls, Vol. 5 by Brian K. Vaughan

i read it last night, it was really cute but also really sad lol but it did always wonder if i was reading too much into their past relationship and i turns out that i was not!

just a heads up for anyone who likes to read the short stories that go along with a series: there was one called a local habitation that came between books 4 and 5 but it's only available [legally] as part of a larger anthology. but there's one that comes between this book and the next that is called in sea-salt tears and it's up for free on seanan's website. i'm actually about to read it for the first time as i haven't always kept up with all the shorts for this series that didn't directly involve toby.

haha i think toby is kind of a secret badass but she tries to act more nice in everyday life bc she doesn't like that part of her past. but also she heals much faster now that her mother messed with her blood so in typical toby fashion she's like 'oh boy time to take more stupid risks i'll just heal!'

haha a kindle freebie challenge would definitely be interesting, sometimes you get lucky but sometimes they are sooo bad