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R12: Team #7 ~ Seven Wonders
Just a Hop, Skip & Click AwayHappy Reading!
Shelf Announcements ~ Check for the latest shelf announcement & review the requirements for each shelf
Free Space Rules ~ Where to look when pickin' your free space book
Stamp Me! ~ Request a stamp for your bingo card
Discussions ~ Throughout the game, head here to chat with other players & shelf chant til your heart's content
Bingo FAQ ~ Don't hesitate! If you have a question, let us know.
Hiya, Team Caps! Thanks for volunteering to guide your team through a round of BookShelf Bingo! Your job, should you choose to accept it, will require a few things:
1 ~ Be our go-to person should we have any questions about your team
2 ~ Organize your teammate's weekly reads for each shelf/category so that the BSB Ninjas can quickly and easily verify and approve your stamp request(s)
3 ~ Encourage and motivate your team (you may also ask to borrow Judithe's whip whenever necessary)
4 ~ Post regularly to ensure your team is communicating and on track each week (Send them a PM and friendly poke if they haven't posted at least once a week, noted their book choice, and/or appear to have dropped out of webspace)
5 ~ Send us a PM (Steph, Sandra or Judithe) should you need us for any reason throughout the game
EXAMPLE OF WINNING PATTERNSFor R12 only
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Hi all!! Excited to play and am already bowing out of being captain :)
Hi everyone~~~Excited to play as well...
Team ListFree Space ****Stamped****
Sallie - Biting Bad - 4 stars, Review, 7/22/15
Danielle - Black Arts - 4 stars, Review, 08/18/15
Crystal S. - Drink Deep - 4 stars, Review, 7/26/15
Berit - Daughter of Smoke & Bone - 5 stars, Review, 07/20/15
Week 1: Strong Heroines ***Stamped***
Sallie - Cruel Beauty 3 stars, Review, 7/21/15
Danielle - Raphael - 3.5 stars, Review, 7/21/15
Crystal S. - Demon from the Dark - 4.5 stars, Review, 07/31/15
Berit - Vampire Academy - 5 stars, Review, 7/18/15
Week 2: A Bloody Mess ****Stamped****
Sallie - The Renegade Hunter (Argeneau #12) - 4 stars, Review, 7/27/15
Danielle - Shadow Rising - 4 stars, Review, 07/31/15
Crystal S. - Destined for an Early Grave - 4 stars, Review, 08/16/15
Berit - Days of Blood & Starlight - 4 stars, Review, 07/27/15
Week 3: Happy Birthday ****Stamped****
Sallie - The Bourbon Kings - 4 stars, Review, 08/05/15
Danielle - The Diabolical Miss Hyde - 2.5 stars, Review, 08/03/15
Crystal S. - End of Days - 4.5 stars, Review, 08/05/15
Berit - All We Have Is Now - 5 stars, Review, 08/05/15
Week 4: Series Catch-up ****Stamped****
Sallie - Archangel's Shadows - 4 stars, Review, 08/14/15
Danielle - Magic Shifts - 5stars, Review, 08/10/15
Crystal S. - Never Cry Wolf - 2 stars, Review, 08/27/15
Berit - Frostbite - 5 stars, Review, 08/15/15
Week 5: Demons ****Stamped****
Sallie - Seventh Grave and No Body - 4 stars, Review, 08/18/15
Danielle - Broken Soul - 4.5 stars, Review, 08/21/15
Crystal S. - My Way to Hell - 2 stars, Review, 09/01/15
Berit - First Grave on the Right - 5 stars, Review, 08/30/15
Week 6: Dark & Stormy ****Stamped****
Sallie - Dark Fire - 2 stars, Review, 08/24/15
Danielle - Dark Skye - 4.5 stars, Review, 08/24/15
Crystal S. - Storm Front - 4 stars, Review, 09/18/15
Berit - X - 4 stars, Review, 08/25/15
Week 7: Urban Fantasy ****Stamped****
Sallie - Wickedly Dangerous - 4 stars, Review, 10/11/15
Danielle - Touch the Dark - 2.5 stars, Review, 09/04/15
Crystal S. - Biting the Bullet - 2 stars, Review, 09/10/15
Berit - Magic Bites - 4 stars, Review, 08/31/15
Week 8: Favorite ****Stamped****
Sallie - A Witch Before Dying - 4 stars, Review, 04/12/15
Danielle - Dark Instincts - 4.5 stars, Review, 09/09/15
Crystal S. - Dreams of a Dark Warrior - 5 stars, Review, 09/20/15
Berit - Third Grave Dead Ahead - 5 stars, Review, 09/13/15
Week 9: Meow! (featuring feline shifters) ****Stamped****
Sallie - Magic Shifts - 4 stars, Review, 09/26/15
Danielle - Dark Heir - 4 stars, Review, 09/18/15
Crystal S. - Accidentally Catty - 3.5 stars, Review, 10/05/15
Berit - Magic Burns - 5 stars, Review, 09/21/15
****Stamp Pending****Week 10: Paranormal Romance
Sallie - Born to Bite - 4 stars, Review, 10/02/15
Danielle - Blaze of Memory - 4.5 stars, Review, 10/11/15
Crystal S. - Go Fetch! - 4 stars, Review, 10/27/15
Berit - Better Homes and Hauntings - 4 stars, Review, 09/19/15
Week 11: Cover Love (featuring cover art you love)
Sallie - Bound by Flames - 4 stars, Review, 10/12/15
Danielle - Archangel's Shadows
Crystal S. - Scarlette - 4 stars, Review, 10/08/15
Berit - Red Queen - 4 stars, Review, 10/04/15
Part 2 here.
I'm really bad at the naming thing, but I'm cool with anything :-) also I'd volunteer to be captain, but I only use my phone, so organizing post is problematic, sorry, but I can help in any other way.
So, we need a captain and a name, any ideas? Any volunteers? Anyone else excited about the first shelf being called tomorrow?Also what time zones are you all in? I'm in PDT, I live in California :-)
I'm EST in South Carolina. Here are some team name ideas:
Seven Drawfs
Seventh Heaven or 7th Heaven
Seven Wonders
Lucky Number 7 or Lucky Number Seven
Team Post Part 2, Part 1 found here.Week 12: Itchy Witch (featuring witches, warlocks, or magic in some form)
Sallie - A Potion to Die For - 3 stars, Review, 10/22/15
Danielle - Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble
Crystal S. - Dead Beat
Berit - A Potion to Die For - 4 stars, Review, 10/13/15
Week 13: New to You series
Sallie - Black Cat Crossing
Danielle - The Beautiful Ashes - 5 stars, Review, 10/15/15
Crystal S. - Pack Challenge - 3.5 stars, Review, 10/24/15
Berit - The Body Finder - 4 stars, Review, 10/19/15
Week 14: Reader's Choice
Sallie - The Job - 3 stars, Review, 10/21/15
Danielle - Shadowed Threads - 3.5 stars, Review, 10/17/15
Crystal S. - Here Kitty, Kitty!
Berit - Dead Heat - 5 stars, Review, 10/17/15
Week 15: Coupledom (featuring a couple on the cover)
Sallie - Opal
Danielle - Cry Wolf
Crystal S. - Warm Bodies
Berit
YAY!!! And I'm good with any of those names :-)
I like Seven Wonders and I'm in CST in Illinois
I'm good with that name, also has anyone figured out their free space book yet? I need to do that, actually I need to reread the rules on that first
Seven Wonders it is then. Free space read for me is probably gonna be
if I can find my copy. I'm in the midst of a reorganization of my books so books go missing occasionally. LOL
First shelf strong heroin, I'm on the app so I can't link :-)
Does anyone read or has read Night Huntress series by Jeaniene Frost? I'm trying to figure out if I can read
without being completed caught up with Cat and Bones and the other spinoff.
Okay never mind that last question. I'm going to read
. It's on page 12 of the strong heroines link
Crystal S wrote: "Seven Wonders it is then. Free space read for me is probably gonna be
if I can find my copy. I'm in the midst of a reorganization of my books so books go missing oc..."Crystal I need to continue reading that series.. I swear I start so many and they get lost in the shuffle. I'm on book 4 of that one. Sometimes I just have to set up a monthly BR to MAKE myself read them!
My free space book will be:
and that's a book from a series in SOS Best of Urban Fantasy
Thanks for linking to the first shelf Danielle. I was working late today, so I just got home. You know what I had to do to keep up with my series, Danielle? I created a "next up in series" shelf and went through my entire bookshelf and every single series I had started, I tagged the next book to read. And when I read those books, if I'm continuing with the series, I tag the next one. I am determined not to start any new series (unless that shelf is called) AND I try my hardest to pick my bingo books from those books. I usually am able to. It's helped a lot and is actually working, slowly but surely. LOL
Alright, I'll get our team list started on my first comment of the thread (#10). May take me awhile since I have to remind myself how to make links and all that.
I'm reading
for the Strong Heroine shelf. On a side note, if this game lasts more than 15 weeks (surely it won't, but just in case) I will be going to Ireland and the UK for a 2 1/2 week vacation. I should have internet access enough to post reviews and such, but I may need someone else to cover for me as captain. That would mean this ends up being a really long game though. But, since more shelves are needed for a win, I'm not sure how long this round will last. So I'm covering my bases in advance. :-)
Speaking of starting series and never finishing them, here are my books, both first in a series :-) First shelf
Free space
I can cover if it comes to it :)
Crystal S wrote: "Thanks for linking to the first shelf Danielle. I was working late today, so I just got home. You know what I had to do to keep up with my series, Danielle? I created a "next up in series" shelf ..."
That's great advice! I might consider it, at least for my series that I'm at least 3 books deep in. Just thinking of doing it for each one gives me hives lol
I'm also jealous you going on such a long vacay. I'm going to Mexico in two weeks but I still should be able to post my books :)
For my Strong Heroine I'm choosing....
& for my free space book....
...
How is everyone's reading coming along? I have a feeling that my book is gonna be a little dark.
I haven't started yet, but I'm going to today when I finish my current book, good luck with your book!
I have about 3 pages of Drink Deep read. That's all I could get to at lunch Thursday before someone sat down to eat with me. And yesterday I had a date date and girl's night out so I was busy all day. :-( And I'm fixing to drive 4 hours to spend my weekend with my family. Not enough time to read!
Sounds like you're having fun! I should finish my book today :-)
I'm about 65% into my book so I'll be finishing soon :D
Berit wrote: "Speaking of starting series and never finishing them, here are my books, both first in a series :-) First shelf
Free space [bookcover:Daughter of Smoke & B..."
Berit I meant to say before that DoSaB is one of my favorite series out there!!! I did the audio, it was amazing. All three books :D
75% done with my book... hoping to finish tonight...maybe tomorrow.
I finished both my books :-) I will post my little reviews tomorrow, or the next day depending on how much time I have tomorrow. Both were fabulous!!!
Week 1: Strong HeroineBook:
Date Finished: 7/21/15
Rating: 3.5 stars (though it will formally have a 4 star rating)
Review:
I liked this introduction to the Vampires in America series. The books comes off kinda dark to me. There aren't any controversial scenes or things that are hard to swallow, it's just that literally the book was dark. The settings, the clothing, everything.
The good: I liked the way that Cyn and Raphael's relationship was progressing. Their interactions didn't seem forced and I could really feel the chemistry between them as a couple. The plotting was really good too. I really liked the story set up, the mystery/issue that was tackled (in this case someone close to Raphael was kidnapped and Cynthia was hired to find that person), and I also REALLY liked that Cynthia knew about the existence of vampires already and had interactions with them so we got to skip all that mess about "oh I don't believe you are really a vamp" or "you lied to me, you should have told me you are a blood sucking demon" yada yada yada. She came straight the world of vamps, not knowing everything, but at least we got to skip all that crap. I prefer to read PNRs and UFs whose stories center around a world where supes are out of the closet. And this one delivered on that. Though vampires are more like the pink elephant in the room rather than a complete part of society.
The Bad:
I didn't care for some of the writing elements. There were scenes (thankfully not a lot but enough for me to notice) that we received POV from beginning to end from both characters. What I mean is the story would move along and whatever happens will happen and we would receive it from Cyn's point of view and then the next passage would be taking the story back just a tad bit and giving us Raphael's POV. I didn't care for that because I think there are better ways to show a character's reaction to particular set of events without backtracking the story. It was kind of annoying.
The UGLY:
I took half a star off my rating for two things:
1. The issue that Raphael and Cyn had to face as a couple... for some reason they had an issue with commitment but for the life of me, I can't figure out why. There is a lot of brooding looks and moments where one of them says something critical to or of the relationship and they basically have a mic drop conversation where they are like here's this very important thing I have to say and now I'm going to walk away and make assumptions about what you think what I said means when really all I had to do was stay and listen to you say how you feel about what I said. Their issue seemed really contrived and leads me to point #2...
2. The ending. This is a Not Happily Right Now But Obviously We Want You to Buy More Books ending. I really truly believe that the ending and the challenge they have in their relationship solely exists to set up book number and while I enjoyed this one, I'm a little mad about that.
I will continue this series as books go on sale or are available at my library.
Good review! Mine won't be quite as long ;-) I'll try to do it tonight or in the morning. I'm off to a baseball game :-)
I finished my Strong Heroine book:
, rosamund hodge3*s
07.21.2015
This book looked so intriguing but to me was a great disappointment. I could not enjoy this book - it bored me absolutely to death. I was never so glad for a book to end as this one. I hate that I did not enjoy it and I know that there are those who thoroughly enjoyed it but I was not one of those people. I kept thinking that it had to get better but alas it did not. Nyx drove me crazy. She had to be the most wishy-washy character but I found myself really drawn to Ingenix. Loved him. Definitely will not be reading the next book in this series any time soon...
Berit wrote: "Good review! Mine won't be quite as long ;-) I'll try to do it tonight or in the morning. I'm off to a baseball game :-)"Hahahaha I started ranting a little.
Loved it! I'm just not a great review writer, not going to lie :-)
Week 1 Strong Heroin
7/18/15*****This book was a lot more than I expected. I really enjoyed the different levels of vampire and the different roles they played. Rose was a strong, sassy, snarky, and likable girl. I loved the bond she shared with her BFF Lyssa , They really were there for one another. I also liked the fact that Lyssa had some pretty serious issues to deal with that a lot of non-vampire teens have to deal with as well. There wasn't as much romance in this book as I probably would have liked, but I'm assuming that's coming in the next books, which I definitely will be reading!
Yay! Our first reviews! :-)New shelf is up:
Shelf #2 ~ 22 July: A Bloody Mess
Read a book that features: 'blood' in title, series name, on the cover or a book featuring vampires.
I'm going to read
which features vamps
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