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Hi, Tents! Our next shelf is up ~ 'dark-fantasy'.I found a book rather quickly this week. One of my Nov challenge books was shelved 'dark-fantasy' by two people. YAY! So, I'll be reading
.Hope everyone's having a good weekend!
Hello Ladies! I will be reading
for my book this week.
Yay! Hope you enjoy Cassie, Heather! Looking forward to your review, Michelle - I have that one TBR too.
I will read
I am still plugging away at A Discovery of Witches. I am liking it, but I think it could have been shorter. I feel like I have been reading it forever. I should be done in the next couple of days.
Amanda I felt that way when I picked it two rounds ago! It is a long book!I love bingo for making me start series that I have been meaning to start for years but never have. Now I just need to finish the ones I liked. :)
Shelf #8 Nov 4th Dark Fantasy 5/6Heather ~ Marceline - Touch the Dark 4★ 11/4 review
StephB - Thirteen 4★ 11/7 review
LethalLovely - Poison Princess
Amanda A - Rises The Night 4★ 11/10review
Regina - Rosemary and Rue 3★ 11/5 review
Michelle - Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet 4★ 11/12 review
Great picks, ladies. I'm going to read
.The first book, Grave Witch was all kinds of Meh (I actually read it for BSB R4) but I'm hoping second time's a charm.
Favorite Series Read:
Date Finished: November 5th
Rating: ★★☆☆☆
Review:
I haven't been a big fan of LJ's "Rough Riders" series for awhile but I've had hope that RR would return to it's former glory. It hasn't and after reading KT, I firmly believe that it won't. It's the same damn book over and over again with different character names & sexual positions. KT is about Tell McKay and Georgia Hotchkiss. They went to high school together, where Georgia was the popular beautiful cheerleader who manipulated the geeky, adoring Tell when she wasn't outright ignoring him. And now they're grown up....but they're not. If I didn't know 10 years had passed, I'd have thought they were still stupid ass, self-centered kids.
I did not enjoy this book. Both G & T were immature as hells. They played a lot of head games with each other. Yes, the sexy times were amazing but given that KT felt like YA with smut, it only served to make the sex scenes uncomfortable as hells for me. I'm pretty sure I'm done with RR.
I finished my book -- and eeeeekkkk! We will have 4 in a row with this stamp! This is my first time ever in bingo getting four in a row! I already have my psychic book picked out in case that is called on Saturday. :)
Shelf Dark FantasyDate 11/5/12
Rating 3 stars
Book Rosemary and Rue
Review
Don't let my rating fool you. This is a solid book. The audio isn't great (I had to listen to it on 2X speed. There isn't much of a story or a plot, but the world building is amazing. The characters are interesting, have depth and likable. And I am on the hook for the next book. I like Mira Grant as an author and I like her books under this name as well. I am very excited to have found a new series and I am looking forward to trying her other series as well.
LOL Regina I feel like I should say, "May the odds forever be in {our} favor!" ;) I think this may be the first 4-in-a-row too.
I finished
on 11/4/12 and give it 4 stars. Parts of me loved this book and small parts of me felt it was a bit disjointed. I see I am the only one in the group that hasn't read it yet, so I can speak freely :) I loved Tomas in the beginning (not sure why since he only appeared briefly) so I was bummed when they kept shoving Mircea at Cassie. The way things jumped around so much was a bit jarring, but I still enjoyed the book. I will definitely be reading the next book.
Sorry you didn't enjoy your book more Lethal. I read
and that was a fun read, but haven't taken the time to read any others. So many of them just didn't sound as good as that one to even bother with.
Regina wrote: "I finished my book -- and eeeeekkkk! We will have 4 in a row with this stamp! This is my first time ever in bingo getting four in a row! I already have my psychic book picked out in case that is ..."Good idea Regina... are we in a race with anybody?
Okay, now to get all leader-y on you guys(you guys have been really great since this is the first time I have done so!)...
Amanda, anyway to skip ahead and read your dark fantasy book before finishing your favorite series read since it goes with our four in a row? I am only asking since you said your read for that shelf was such a chunkster and we may not need it.
Heather I believe we are. There is another group that will have 5 in a row with psychic as well. My book will be
. I probably just jinxed us.
No problem, I have already started my dark fantasy book because I need a break from DoW. I am on a business trip and flying home Tuesday, so I should have lots of reading time.
DoW is a long book! I hope you went somewhere good. :)Hahaha - Steph! Please do say that! Will this be anyone else's first time with 4 in a row?
Regina wrote: "DoW is a long book! I hope you went somewhere good. :)Hahaha - Steph! Please do say that! Will this be anyone else's first time with 4 in a row?"
I am in Tampa, FL. Beautiful city and I'm loving the warm weather. Chance of thunderstorms on Tuesday though. Not what you want to hear when you are about to fly the friendly skies. :-)
Regina, I was really lucky my first two rounds of playing, 2 & 3 I think, and was on the winning team. It was fun, one of the rounds we were alone reading for the stamp but the other was a race to the finish. I think Lethal said she had won before as well, but I could be remembering that wrong.
Regina - The October Day series gets better with each book. It picked up from book #3 for me. Too bad the author is making us wait one year for each book.
Oops, I meant MY first time at 4-in-a-row, not THE. ;) But, YAY! *knockwood*I should finish my 'dark-fantasy' book in the next day or so - plenty of time before the next shelf is called.
I'll make sure I read my book before the next shelf is called. I'll also find a Psychic book just incase :)
Heather ~ Marceline wrote: "Regina, I was really lucky my first two rounds of playing, 2 & 3 I think, and was on the winning team. It was fun, one of the rounds we were alone reading for the stamp but the other was a race to..."You were right; I had the pleasure of being on the team that won the first round of BSB. Hehehehe. The Fall semester ends soon, so suffice it to say, I'm burning the midnight oil these days. =( But I'll try to have my "Dark Fantasy" book read by Saturday, Team. I'm just so tired, I can't see straight. Ugh.
Uni's more important, darlin', don't let the game add stress as you wrap up your semester. We all know you'll read when ya have a chance. ;)
Agreed! This is all in fun, nobody dies if we don't get a stamp. :D
LOL! Very true, your mental sanity is far more important to us, reading should be fun & not a chore :)
I've finished
; will write up my review shortly.Hope everyone's having a great week!
Thanks for understanding, ladies. I just feel real bad. It usually doesn't take me this long to Triple R but it's been harder than usual this round. I'm also going to chance my "Dark Fantasy" book. Every time I pick up "Grave Dance" I end up putting it back down. It's not a book I wanted to read and my heart isn't really in it. I'm changing my book to 
. Lets see how well KCole does with the YA genre.
I am really looking forward to that one, Michelle. I look forward to your review.Yours too, Lethal. I've thought about giving that one a read. Hope you enjoy it!
Thirteen by Kelley Armstrong
Series: Women of the Otherworld
Shelf: dark-fantasy
Read: 7 Nov 2012
Rating: 4 of 5 stars
Review:
Thirteen, the conclusion to Kelley's Women of the Otherworld series, centers mostly around Savannah. The storyline threading through the previous two books comes to a conclusion with THIRTEEN, as does the series as a whole. I appreciated Kelley's letter in the beginning of the book explaining why she chose, out of all of the amazing Otherworld characters, to have Savannah as the narrator. Thankfully, each of the Women of the Otherworld narrate a chapter, which gives us a chance to reconnect with them.
Honestly, I don't know exactly what to include in my review. As a series-long fan, I will say that I was pleasantly surprised at how happy I felt at the end of the book. I expected to feel a pressing need for more, but, at least for now, I feel satisfied. Kelley's done her characters and fans right by creating a scenario in which all of the beloved and some of the forgotten have regrouped in one final battle. Well, maybe not so final as she has promised a few Otherworld shorts in the future - possibly even returning to world in greater length at some point. Until we meet again, my sweets.
Good morning, Teamies! Our next shelf is up ~ '2012'. This is a Goodreads' shelf, not a personal shelf. Hope everyone has a great weekend! Be sure to wish all the Marines in your life Happy Birthday (Nov 10) and send a big thank you out to all the Vets in your life (Nov 11). Happy Reading!
Once we get our Dark Fantasy and Favorite Series stamps, 2012 will give us our second four in a row! Hope everyone is having a great weekend and enjoying their books. Off to find one I want to read.
I'm going to read
for 2012. I have started Fourth Grave, hoping to finish it tonight or tomorrow.Have a great weekend everyone!! :)
I'm considering:
or
for '2012'. I'll let ya know which one when I start reading.
I'm going to read
for 2012. I've got to head out to a concert soon but I'll start it as soon as I get home.
I've decided to read
for 2012. It was a tough decision between a few books, I might still change, but I am trying to get all caught up in my existing series and this is one of the few I have left.
Shelf: Dark Fantasy
Finished 11/10
4★
Victoria Gardella is a female Venator (vampire slayer). After a series of life-changing events, she returns to her duties and finds no vampires in London. When she discovers a society of mortals who protect vampires, she travels to Italy to learn more about the society and ends up trying to stop an evil vampire from activating a magical mirror that can control demons.
I found the second half of the book much more interesting than the first. The action picked up after Max reappeared and was pretty much non-stop from then on. I enjoyed learning more background information on Victoria, Sebastian and Max in this book. The ending left me hanging and wanting to find out what happens next to each of them.
I finished my 2012 shelf read before I had time to post it. :) I am going to pick out a shifters book too, so I have one on reserve just in case (in addition to the psychic book). I can't believe I am on a team with the possibility of 2 fours in a row!okay ...
Shelf 2012
Date 11/11/12
Book Tied Up, Tied Down
Rating 3.5 stars
Review
I have taken a few years off of the series, despite having gone on a shopping spree and purchased almost all of them that were published a few years ago. The Rough Riders had just tired me out, I guess there is only so much a gal can take. :) This is #4 in the series, I had already read 1-3 and then #5. I liked #4. It is the first one without a threesome -- woohoo! This one was a sweet romance, involving a baby and a couple coming back together. I think the time off served me well, because now I am moving on and reading #6. I am guessing this one will have a threesome again ....
I finished
on 11/11/12 and give it 3.5 stars. I know I am one of the few people that have stuck with the series this long, but I have been able to deal with Anita and the ardeur. I actually liked some of the recent relationship storylines, minus some of the endless sex scenes, more than some of the procedural crime stories of the early books. This book was a bit more of a blend of the two. I am getting tired though of the cops in each town Anita visits judging her for sleeping with the monsters. This time there was one in particular that seemed to hold a grudge, the characters made it clear he definitely had a problem with ther, and then it was never explained what that problem was. That and the resolution to the big bad evil of the last few books was what knocked the stars down for me on this one. Here she has been fighting the Harlequinn and how powerful they are and in one short scene it all comes to an end, what??? All in all though, I enjoyed it, I know I am rare, but I do still enjoy these books, even though parts, Olaf, and the angry cops especially, bug the crud out of me.
Shelf #9 Nov 11 2012 6/6 Complete!Heather ~ Marceline - Hit List 3.5★ 11/11 review
StephB - Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet 4★ 11/15 review
LethalLovely - Touched by an Alien 3★ 11/12 review
Amanda A - Only Yours 4★ 11/14 review
Regina - Tied Up, Tied Down 3.5★ 11/11 review
Michelle - Rogue Rider 5★ 11/14 review
Thanks heather! I love your review of Anita. I gave up after Cerulean Sins but sometimes I think about starting again.
I finished Fourth Grave, I'll be back with my review.
Shelf: Dark-Fantasy
Read: 12/11/12
Rated: 4 Stars
Review:
With everything that happend at the end of Third Grave I was eager to read Fourth Grave to see how Charley was coping. My heart went out to her when we discover she's not doing as well as I hoped (can't say I blame her though!).
Although this wasn't my favourite book in the series there was plenty of things I did love - Cookie (Margarita loving BFF's are a must!), Amber (I'm suddenly full of questions about my 12yr old niece!), Artemis (how I miss my Rottie...) and the most imprtant one of all - REYES! And we are treated to naked Reyes... Holy hotness!
I enjoyed the T-shirt quote chapter titles, Charley's uniqu sense of humour although I got a little confused with some of the names. Only Charley would name her spleen. Lots of revelations about Charley and hints of what's to come. Can't wait for the next one!!
Usually these are a one sittng read for me but it took me 3 or 4 attempts to finish it, that's not to say I didn't enjoy it though.
Here is an update of where we stand on all our open shelves, please let me know if I am missing anything for anyone!Shelf #7 Oct 28 Favorite Series 5/6
Heather ~ Marceline - Game for Anything 3★ 10/28 review
StephB - Biting Cold 3.5★ 11/2 review
LethalLovely - Kissin' Tell 2★ 11/5 review
Amanda A - A Discovery of Witches
Regina - Urban Shaman 1★ 10/31 review
Michelle - Ember's Kiss 5★ 11/1 review
Shelf #7 Oct 28 Favorite Series 5/6
Heather ~ Marceline - Game for Anything 3★ 10/28 review
StephB - Biting Cold 3.5★ 11/2 review
LethalLovely - Kissin' Tell 2★ 11/5 review
Amanda A - The Marriage Bargain
Regina - Urban Shaman 1★ 10/31 review
Michelle - Ember's Kiss 5★ 11/1 review
Shelf #8 Nov 4th Dark Fantasy 5/6
Heather ~ Marceline - Touch the Dark 4★ 11/4 review
StephB - Thirteen 4★ 11/7 review
LethalLovely - Poison Princess
Amanda A - Rises The Night 4★ 11/10review
Regina - Rosemary and Rue 3★ 11/5 review
Michelle - Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet 4★ 11/12 review
Shelf #9 Nov 11 2012 2/6
Heather ~ Marceline - Hit List 3.5★ 11/11 review
StephB - Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
LethalLovely - Touched by an Alien
Amanda A - Only Yours
Regina - Tied Up, Tied Down 3.5★ 11/11 review
Michelle - Death and the Girl Next Door
Thanks for taking the time to give us an update, Heather! Just letting you know, I changed my Dark Fantasy book to
in message 432.Oh & I read my 2012 book, team! I'll Triple R it tomorrow.
Heather, I changed from Black Night to Fourth Grave Beneath my Feet by Darynda Jones for dark fantasy.
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