Sylvs (NOVELty Reads)’s Comments (group member since May 08, 2019)

Sylvs (NOVELty Reads)’s comments from the Between The Pages group.

Tali wrote: "I'm in!"

Yay! You've been added :)

Eileen wrote: "I'll give it a try! I had a lot of fun with the last group challenge!"

Aww thank you! And also I added you in :)

Hey guys!

For the month of June we are hosting a Readathon in celebration of Pride Month. This challenge will run from the 1st of June to the 30th. The aim is to read as many books as you possibly can and you get bonus points if you complete the prompts listed below. All participants will be sorted into randomly generated groups with the aim of reading the most out of all the teams. Sign ups close on the 31st of May so get in quick! The teams will be announced on the 1st of June.

The prompts are divided into 6 categories. By completing one of the prompts you will earn your group 2 points. Completing the whole prompt category would earn you 14 points.

PROMPTS (LGBTQ+)

PROMPT CATEGORY 1: (L)ESBIAN

Love Triangle
Enemies to Lovers
Standalone
Bisexual Main Character
Insta-Worthy (A Book With A Cover You Love)
Asexual Main Character
Non-Human Main Character

PROMPT CATEGORY 2: (G)RAVITY

Gay Romance (M/M)
Romance Novel
Anti-Climatic
Villanous (epic villain)
Imaginary World
Two- Faced Character
YA Book of your Choice

PROMPT CATEGORY 3: (B)OYLOVE

Book To Screen Adaptation (Books made into TV shows or Films)
Own Voices
YA Paranormal
Long Book (1000+ Pages)
Overthrow the Hierarchy (Insurgent Main Character)
Villainous Queen
Emotional Read

PROMPT CATEGORY 4: (T)RAGEDY

Transgender Main Character
Rise Up (A book about change or inspiring global action and activism)
Aussie Books (#LoveOzYA)
Girl/Girl Romance
Extraterrestrial (Love Interest is an alien/alien equivalent*)
Debut Author
YA Horror

PROMPT CATEGORY 5: (Q)UEENIE

Questioning Main Character
Unreliable Main Character
Ethical or Not (Morally Grey Main Character)
Evil Sidekick
Non-Binary Main Character
It's All in the Name (A book with a name in the title)
Even Number (A book with an even number in the title)

PROMPT CATEGORY 6: (+)PERFECT

Pansexual Main Character
Everyone's Gay! (A Book with only LGBTQ+ Characters)
Retelling
Five Star Read
Endgame (Last book in a series)
Chosen One Trope
Tragic Ending

*Note: Alien Equivalent can refer to a book where an alien race is referred to under another name (e.g, Syldrathi, Na'vi etc) but is still clear about the alien-ness or nature of the said race.

The prompts all are tailored to LGBTQ+ books. If the book you entered is not an LGBTQ+ book then you can't get points for it from the prompts. For example, if you entered your book with the prompt of "Imaginary World" but it's not an LGBTQ+ book then it won't earn the 2 points from completing the prompt. If it is an LGBTQ+ book that has an imaginary world then it would earn the 2 points. The same rules apply with all the prompts. Also, you can only use a prompt once otherwise the prompt points for the second entry with that prompt won't count!

The books for the readathon can be as long as you like. You earn more points anyway the longer the book is. We strongly encourage you to read YA books though since this is a YA book club. Only books finished in June will count. If you started the book in May but finished it in June that's completely valid too. You can earn points for the team through page points and other factors listed below.

PAGE POINTS

1-99 pages = 1 Point
100-199 pages = 2 Points
200-299 pages = 3 Points
300-399 pages = 4 Points
400-499 pages = 5 Points
500-599 pages = 6 Points
600-699 pages = 7 Points
700+ pages = 8 Points

EXTRA POINTS

1 BOTM (From Between the Pages Book Club) = 5 Points
2 BOTM (From Between the Pages Book Club) = 10 Points
Reviews = 5 Points (Reviews must be longer than 2 sentences)
Completed Prompt = 2 Points
Completed Prompt Category = 14 Points
Buddy Read = 5 Points

Sign ups close on the 31st of May so be quick! Comment your name down below if you're interested and we will group you into a team :) We really hope you will get involved and have fun!

Zitong wrote: "Ok, I've finally finished it and I enjoyed it! I did find it to be a little too dramatic and I wanted things to move along a bit faster at the start, but other than that, I thought that it was good..."

Yay! So glad you liked it! I read this book with my irl book club and they said it was slow at the start too. I think it was after the 90-132 pages mark that things really went going.

Eileen wrote: "Loved this one! It was my first book by this author


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

Ooh nice! :)

Lady Clementina wrote: "Sylvs (NOVELty Reads) wrote: "Lady Clementina wrote: "Sylvs (NOVELty Reads) wrote: "Lady Clementina wrote: "This one was a mixed read for me; I felt it got me to see the injustice, the daily discri..."

Definitely! I hated Ashley's friends especially the "head girl" of the group who's name I forgot. She was horrible from the start with her micro-aggressions and racist slurs. I'm really glad that Ashley stood up against her at the end.

Lady Clementina wrote: "Sylvs (NOVELty Reads) wrote: "Lady Clementina wrote: "This one was a mixed read for me; I felt it got me to see the injustice, the daily discrimination that is faced well, as also the flaws in the ..."

Exactly! What did you think of LaShawn and Ashley's friends?

Lady Clementina wrote: "This one was a mixed read for me; I felt it got me to see the injustice, the daily discrimination that is faced well, as also the flaws in the system, but I didn't feel like it flowed so well as a ..."

It definitely was an eye opener but I see your point. I read it and reviewed it a while ago so a few minor details are a bit hazy but I thought it revealed a lot about racism in our society.

Eileen wrote: "Finished number two. I loved it enough that I will look for more books by this author, although my library has a rather limited selection.

https://www.goodread..."

Ooh nice! I should check this author out too!

Eileen wrote: "I think this would make a fun movie, done right!"

It would! The whole book has amazing imagery! It was as if I could see everything play out perfectly in my mind! I can't wait for Flash Fire though. July can't come soon enough XD

Eileen wrote: "Okay, I finished this and it was honestly a slow start for me, because it was VERY YA/melodramatic for me and I wasn't sure I really got all the jokes. And yet I kept going, partly because I loved ..."

Yay! I'm glad to hear it! It was slow at the very beginning but I think after the 92 pages mark it started to really pick up. The book still remains my favourite book to date XD

Eileen wrote: "I read this book last year as well, as an ARC and I agree with you. At first, I wasn't completely taken with Ashley, but as time went on, I did end up liking her. My parents were in Covina at the t..."

Exactly! I got this book as an ARC too last year (Thanks NetGalley XD) and I agree with you on basically all your points. At times it was really overwhelming but overall, it was a pretty good book!

Eileen wrote: "Okay, finished my first one! I LOVED it! But I will read anything by the author!



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

YAY!! Congrats!

I loved, loved LOVED this book. It's my all time favourite and I recommend it to everyone. It has superheroes, LGBTQ romance and loveable characters that you're just here for. Oh and secret identities. Lots and lots of secret identities! I loved the scenes with Nick and his attempts at becoming an extraordinary himself and the plot with Shadow Star and Owen's dad's business. I can't wait to see what Flash Fire has in store for us. I love this series so much <3

I actually read this book a year ago but I think I still have enough content to go off from :) I thought this book was pretty good, I didn't know anything about the Rodney King killings of the 90's (and the riots that followed) but I felt like this book educated me about it. I felt like this book, although being set in the 90's, still has relevance to today's issues of class and race and has similarities to the Black Lives Matter protests and the events surrounding (and after) George Floyd's brutal murder too.

Ashley as a character, is seen as one of the "popular" girls from school and is one of the only black girls in her friend group. Most of her friends in that group are toxic and use microagressions to undermine Ashley as one of "them" or something "other" and always make the effort to make Ashley feel submissive to those girls.

I also liked LaShawn who seemed really sweet. Unfortunately he was the victim of one of Ashley's friend group's schemes which has left Ashley feeling like she's in the wrong. You could see her guilt the whole way through the book.

Write down what you thought bout the May BOTM: The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune

Eileen wrote: "I LOVE Zoya's character development. She starts out as a mean girl, but truly grows into one of the most kickass characters!"

Yessss I can't wait to see more of her in King of Scars! She truly gets a redemption arc :)

Eileen wrote: "So as long as it shows up on Goodreads as historical fiction and YA, it will count?"

Yep!

Eileen wrote: "Okay, I finished with 4 Asian authors, which isn't bad! It's better than I expected, so I'm happy with it! Yolk turned out to be so much more interesting than I expected, especially when I first st..."

Ooh nice that means that we have two people tied at No. 1 :D

Eileen wrote: "Yes, I think one of the reasons I was so annoyed by Alina is because she was so passive! Mal I kind of went back and forth about how I felt about him. Honestly, it was other characters in Shadow an..."

Yes! I loved Nikolai when he first appeared and Zoya too (even though she's a mean character). I thought the Darkling's relationship with Alina was... questionable to say the least which was why I liked Mal's and Alina's more (although not by much simply because I didn't like their characters).