Judith’s Comments (group member since Apr 15, 2015)

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

The Malevolent Seven by Sebastien de Castell

'Seven powerful mages want to make the world a better place. We're going to kill them first.'

Picture a wizard. Go ahead, close your eyes. There he is, see? Skinny old guy with a long straggly beard. No doubt he's wearing iridescent silk robes that couldn't protect his frail body from a light breeze. The hat's a must, too, right? Big, floppy thing, covered in esoteric symbols that would instantly show every other mage where this one gets his magic? Wouldn't want a simple steel helmet or something that might, you know, protect the part of him most needed for conjuring magical forces from being bashed in with a mace (or pretty much any household object).

Now open your eyes and let me show you what a real war mage looks like . . . but be you're probably not going to like it, because we're violent, angry, dangerously broken people who sell our skills to the highest bidder and be damned to any moral or ethical considerations.

At least, until such irritating concepts as friendship and the end of the world get in the way.

My name is Cade Ombra, and though I currently make my living as a mercenary wonderist, I used to have a far more noble-sounding job title - until I discovered the people I worked for weren't quite as noble as I'd believed. Now I'm on the run and my only friend, a homicidal thunder mage, has invited me to join him on a suicide mission against the seven deadliest mages on the continent.

Time to recruit some very bad people to help us on this job . . .

All Rhodes Lead Here by Mariana Zapata


Losing people you love is hard.

Aurora De La Torre knows moving back to a place that was once home isn’t going to be easy.

Starting your whole life over probably isn’t supposed to be.

But a small town in the mountains might be the perfect remedy for a broken heart.

Checking out her landlord across the driveway just might cure it too.

Reason: MPG Music, hard letters for Wheels!, good page points!

FYI - it's been made official.

All 800+ page tasks have been dropped to 651+ with a request that things spun previously be honored.

Honestly, the wheels loved the 800+ page monsters. It's a bit disturbing that it was all wheels and multiple teams

Cat wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Whoop! Although we hadn't hit too many 800+ yet.

I've updated our monster info :)"


YOU'RE WELCOME LADIES

After some consideration, the top page count for all monsters are being set to 651+ pages.

Even for existing wheels.

If you've already spun and 800 page monster, before the change, please honor the original task.

Hope this change will help you monster hunters out!

*Note: the master spreadsheet of tasks has been updated accordingly

I think I’m going to take Lisa’s suggestion about the top page range moving forward for future wheels

We are having the same issue with 800+ so will be given strong consideration 😂

I just finished the last book for The Yellow Man but won’t be on the computer for a bit if someone feels like spinning

Lisa - (Aussie Girl) wrote: "Hey ladies.. another Wheel for our reading/challenge pleasure...

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/..."

None of these are 800 pagers. You're welcome! :P

Also the Dr Who wheel will come out in a couple months to align with an anniversary Jenny mentioned to me. Just so you know!

Indifferent, now that some other challenges are starting I’ll likely be slowing down on tasks for these.

But maybe not more than 2 overly specific?

Bobbi wrote: "Me: I joined too many team challenges at once!
Also me: Team challenge?! *stalks sign up thread*"

#FACTS

Such a good book, I now longer have my copy though and it's a long wait at my library. It looks like I'll be forced to skip this one :(

Jenny wrote: "Judith wrote: "I just finished off Kabandha and will get another human monster as we've already had fewer of those.

We'll have a new wheel in about a week."

Ooh! Cool!
Lexi's particular monsters ..."

Lexi's. She made a special request it go out in time for us to use it some before the next big team challenge starts in NBRC.

And that's good to know about Dr. Who, I'll keep that in mind ;)

Bob
200 to 299
Set in at the Pacific Northwest
Two of something on the cover
Main antagonist is sneaky
MC is in law enforcement or equivalent

I just finished off Kabandha and will get another human monster as we've already had fewer of those.

We'll have a new wheel in about a week.

The Yellow King
200 to 299
Yellow cover
tree on cover
MPG mystery
contains a complicated work relationship (your interpretation)

I'll spin the human wheel again

New Monster, went back to Asian

Kabandha
350 to 450
MPG Mythology
Torso on cover
MC has a brother
Tree(s) on cover

You ladies crack me up. I almost spit out my water when I saw this thread.

Nice pic by the way. hehe!!