FL1: Team #10 ~ Tenacious Terrors

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

D.G. sometimes OTT is just so much fun!!!!

[D.G.]

OTT? Over the top?

That book certainly was. I was laughing like a maniac at all the 'suspenseful' parts because it was so wacky.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Yep, over the top!!! LOL.

[D.G.]

Sandra wrote: "D.G. I'd say half & half orange/red. One of the other covers is fully red."

Thanks, Sandra. I decided to start it anyhow. I have to review it next week for the blog and I need to get started (it's a long audiobook.)

Regardless, there's a book I have to read next for a series and I found covers for every color in our list:

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

ROFL. That's comprehensive :DDDDDD

[D.G.]

I know, LOL! AC books usually have tons of covers (because of all the different editions) but usually not in that many colors. And if you notice, these are all covers in English so it's not as if these are covers from other languages!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

I just went and had a look at my book list for 450 from Paddington, and I know the cover is wrong. Must of got switched in the great Amazon black hole last year. I'll have to dig out my copy and find the right edition.

[Steph Ann]

Just popping in to say I finished my book, but I probably won't be able to write my review til tomorrow. Today has just been crazy!!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Yay Steph Ann!!

[Lis]

Yay team! Doing good this week...

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Well D.G., just checked my Agathas' and they were all wrong.

So wrong I even had to create another copy of my 1956 cause some *b$t&h* replaced my cover with her own 1980's cover and left the date as 1956, huh, hers was so not the 50's. Not so worried by the ISBN cause there wasn't one in 56. *Rant over*

[D.G.]

All of them were wrong! Wow!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Yep, I've noticed most of my Alastair MacLean's are wrong as well. I'll get around to fixing them soon. Got a new scanner to play with :DDDD

[Steph Ann]

Week 9 - Yellow
Space - 111




Read: 3/28/13
Rating: 4.5 stars

Review:

This was another great installment in the Sirantha Jax series. I'm so sad I only have one book left before the series is over!

As always, this book moved very quickly and picked up right where the last book left off. We see the consequences of Sirantha's actions and the repercussions she faces. There is a ton of focus on Jax and Vel's relationship, which is totally fine by me since Vel is my favorite character. The only thing that kept it from being 5 stars for me is that, while most of the book moved quickly, there was one brief part of the book that dragged for me.

It's sad to see plotlines start to get tied up as the series moves toward its end, but I'm definitely looking forward to the last book to see how the remaining storylines get resolved!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Glad you're still enjoying it Steph Ann, I've got them all but only read #1 so far ;)

[Isha]

I finished my book earlier in the week but life's been crazy right now and I never got the time to do a review but I'll have it up first thing in the morning when I wake up.

[D.G.]

Hey Ladies - I have to go out for my weekly mani-pedi (usually do it on Sundays but can't this week.) So please don't worry if I'm late with the draw. I'll be back later today.

[Isha]

Week 9: Yellow

Book: by Gena Showalter
Rating: ★★★½
Finished 25 March 2013
Review:

Another great book from the series but not quite as enjoyable as the previous books. I wasn't sure about Kaia and Strider as a couple mostly due to my dislike of Kaia but they turned out to be great and I enjoyed reading about the Harpy games.
Now to wait patiently for The Darkest Craving.

[D.G.]

Great, Nikita! I should post the weeks reviews and do the draw in the next hour or so.

[D.G.]

FS1 Tenacious Terrors Week 9: #111 Yellow
Completed: 5 / 5

✔ D.G.: Brainrush - Mar 26 ★★★ review
✔ Lis: Nightfall - Mar 25 ★★★½ review
✔ Nikita: The Darkest Surrender - Mar 25 ★★★½ review
✔ Sandra: Dire Needs - Mar 27 ★★★★★ review
✔ Steph Ann: Aftermath - Mar 28 ★★★★½ review

[D.G.]

Tenacious Terrors: Week 10
Week 9 Spot + Color: #111 Yellow
Card:
New Spot + Color: #116 Green

[D.G.]

Our third green! Funny thing, we haven't gotten ONE two. We've only read a blue cover when we landed on the portal. :)

[D.G.]

I'll be reading . I've been meaning to read this book for a while...

[Steph Ann]

Any chance the grass at the bottom of this cover counts as enough green?

[Steph Ann]

Never mind...I'm going to read . :)

[Isha]

Will be reading for green.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Damn, I really wanted purple! Got no clue what I'll be reading for green.

[Lis]

I'm going to try

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

I'll probably go with either or

But I've got to read my last March book first, which of course is purple ;)

[Lis]

Week 10



Read Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Series:  Lux
Finished: 4/1/2013
Rating: ★★★1/2
Space: #116 Green Cover 

Katy lost her father to cancer and finds herself moved from Florida to West Virginia so her mother can get a fresh start. Her mother is a nurse working two jobs which include the night shift leaving Katy free to mingle with neighbors that just happen to be aliens. Katy is a typical high school senior that loves to read and blog about her books. Katy and Dee become fast friends which sets off the rest of the aliens the DOD have placed in this small town, because aliens and humans don't mix. Cue the twilightish similarities with groups of secretive hot alien siblings who sit at their own lunch table, drive fancy cars, and look like models in their fashionable clothing. Dee's twin brother Daemon tries very hard to discourage the friendship with his sister which leads to a few events in which Katy is marked by their essence and becomes a target by the evil dark aliens. I enjoyed the pace of the book and how the author slowly built the love hate relationship between Katy and Daemon. Plan to continue with the series.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Good, glad you liked it, Lis. I picked it up as a freebie a while ago.

I'm 65% into Not quite as good as Kitty Katt but not bad either.

[Lis]

I picked it up for $0.99 so it was an almost freebie. I don't have a lot of green options but glad I gave it a try. I was hurrying thru so I could start on the new releases out today.

These last two weeks have been crazy with too many good options. has been kind of a bust, disappointing. So I'm switching to and Thea Harrison has a new series out today too,

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Waiting impatiently for my mmp copies which are all in the mail.

[D.G.]

I wanted to check out the new Thea Harrison but it doesn't come out on audio until the end of the month. I think I'll pre-order it.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

I pre-ordered all of mine too. The only way to save money :)))

[D.G.]

My pre-order for came in yesterday and I didn't even notice! Here's hoping for red for our last week of the challenge!

[Lis]

Is it really going to be the last week? I always enjoy our team challenges and this has been a great team... Can't believe its almost over already.

I'm hoping for orange then, I've been holding off on Frost/ Vlad's latest book.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Team #9 (Judithe's team) only need 2 spaces to win so it seems likely to be the last week. Other teams are also close, so it might be one of them.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Week: #10
Colour: Green
Spot: #116
3/4/13 ★★★★


What if religion is real, not just christian, but all religion. And what if every supernatural being you've ever heard of is real too? Then you'd have Gini Koch's Prosaic City.

Agent Victoria Wolfe, from Prosaic City Police Dept, The Night Beat Division as well as a Major in the Necropolis Enforcement, is our feisty heroine. She is partnered by Agent Jack Wagner, a human police man. It is their job to protect and serve and send Hell's Minions back where they belong.

As you'd expect from a Gini Koch novel, we have a snarky heroine who seems to be right in the middle of the good vs evil battle. Whilst religion is an integral part of the book, it is in no way preachy. Angels are pretty much matter of fact, along with the other members of her Necropolis team, a werewolf who likes to stay in wolf form, a succubus, a zombie, a couple of vampires, a lich and various ghosts.

Favourite good guy quote: "May the Gods and Monsters save us."

The last half of the book really picked up and I was sorry when it ended. I want the next one soon!!

[D.G.]

Lis wrote: "Is it really going to be the last week? I always enjoy our team challenges and this has been a great team... Can't believe its almost over already. "

2 or 3 teams are in spot 134 or it's likely we'll be done next week.

We've been a great team, really!

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Definitely a great team & D.G. a great el capitan!!

[Steph Ann]

This has been a great team!!

Like Lis, I'm hoping for orange for our last week, so I can read . :)

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Yes, if orange comes up that's what I'll be reading too. It came today in the mail :DDDDD

[D.G.]

Book: by Barbara Samuel
Spot + Color: #116 Green
Rating: - ★★★½
Finished: Apr 3, 2013
Review: As I've started to expect with Barbara Samuel's books, several social issues were prominent in this story: religion persecution, women's rights and even race issues! And believe it or not, they all made sense within the plot.

For some reason though, I couldn't warm up to the heroine. I thought she was too reckless. I liked that she understood she made a mistake - I also liked how she didn't blame herself completely but understood her brother and former lover held part of the blame - but I couldn't stand her wailing how unfair life was.

I liked how the hero wasn't totally PC or impervious of the mores of the times. I really enjoyed the relationships between all the siblings. It didn't seem the ideal one you see in a lot of romance but it was full of camaraderie, love and annoyance which is definitely closer to the truth.

I will be definitely be checking out the second book in the series.

[Steph Ann]

Week 10 - Green
Space - 116



Read: 4/3/13
Rating: 4 stars

Review

I really enjoyed this book. It started out a little slowly for me, but once I got into it, I didn't want to put the book down, which is always a good sign!

I continue to love all the characters and wish Bob the skull was in this book more because I get a kick out of him. They're just very well-written, although I will say I got very frustrated with Murphy at one point because I thought she was acting incredibly stupid for someone who supposedly believes in the supernatural. That being said, I'm very much looking forward to continuing the series.

[Lis]

Yay! Good reading ladies!!

[Isha]

Week 10: Green

Book: by Maya Banks
Rating: ★★★½
Finished 1 April 2013
Review:

Maya banks never fails to deliver the romance in her books and Highlander Most Wanted was very sweet and romantic. We also get another great hero from Maya Banks, Bowen who turns into Genevieve's knight in shining armor.

The only issue I had was that I feel that Maya Banks sometimes down plays the trauma her heroines go through. What Genevieve went through was described as very traumatic and it felt strange having her overcome it somewhat easily.

A highly enjoyable read with a very sweet ending.

[Sandra, Kindle Operator Licence Required]

Hooray, Nikita!

[Lis]

Yay Nikita! And yay me, another highlander book for my wishlist. I haven't tried any of Maya Banks "men in kilts" books yet.

[D.G.]

FS1 Tenacious Terrors Week 10: #116 Green
Completed: 5 / 5

✔ D.G.: The Black Angel - Apr 3 ★★★½ review
✔ Lis: Obsidian - Apr 1 ★★★½ review
✔ Nikita: Highlander Most Wanted - Apr 1 ★★★½ review
✔ Sandra: The Night Beat - Apr 3★★★★ review
✔ Steph Ann: Fool Moon - Apr 3★★★★ review